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Re: Atheists?
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Originally Posted by KenWittlief
or do we include the future? Does God know what we are going to do, before we do it?

I dont think He does, because that also negates our freewill. If God knows what we will do as individuals, before we decide to to those things, then we are programmed and we have no real choice - no freewill.
I believe that God does know what we will do in advance, but I also believe that we have free will.

There are two basic camps on this issue. The first side is predestination, which says that God knows everything because he set it up and decided what would happen. According to that viewpoint, there is no freewill. The other idea is known as foreknowledge. The basic idea from here is that God knows everything which will be done, but he didn't script it.

One possible way that God could see the "future" is through dimensions. If time is the 4th dimension, then what if God was "in" the 5th? Just as a (3D) sphere appears to the beings of flatland (a 2D world) to be a circle, our time appears to us as a single point where it intersects our dimension, even though it may extend infinitely in other directions which do not intersect with the 3rd dimension. Therefore, if God was in the 5th or higher dimension, he would be able to see all of time. The knowledge the "future" that God possesses wouldn't really be the future for him, because he isn't contained by time.

But I suck at philosophical arguments, so I'll be an engineer...
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