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Author Topic:   The Concept of God -- Need Logic Help
PaulK
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Message 61 of 81 (733756)
07-21-2014 12:34 AM
Reply to: Message 60 by NoNukes
07-20-2014 6:38 PM


Re: Interesting Responses
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You continue to outline the difficulties, and I agree with you in each instance. But what you cannot explain is why those difficulties represent an impossibility for a being who can anticipate anything and everything and can make those assessments at a glance. Heck, maybe there was a little cheating in delaying the cock crow or with the challenges being given when they were.
Of course I'm not claiming impossibility, simply implausibility. The level of accuracy seems beyond anything that could be reasonably achieved if we allow that free will actions are not perfectly predictable.
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The universe does not operate deterministically, nor is it predetermined. I'm suggesting that neither of those things are obstacles to a being who is outside of the rules.
It does make perfect knowledge of the future impossible through ordinary prediction, though. Unless you assume cheating to the extent of deliberately arranging each unpredictable event (which hardly improves your position).
Again, perfect knowledge of the future is the problem. Arguing about mechanisms can't help you.

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