We're talking about actual certain and complete knowledge of the future. Which is logically impossible unless the future is entirely fixed.
The future is only fixed in relation to decisions or events. Events happen based on either human decisions, natural occurrences, such as the weather or geologic upheaval, or outside interference.(outside of the earth) something such as a comet, perhaps.
Of these, all can be mathematically predicted except human decision.
If I peer into a magic crystal ball and see precisely what you did in 2020, all I am seeing is the decisions which you made prior to that date interacting with all of the other human decisions and outside events.
So is it inevitable? Is it "fixed" as you say? I would say that reality is inevitable. What happens at this moment in time happens irrevocably. The same happens at a set point in the future. The question, then...in regards to God...is whether by foreknowing everything that must happen He removes our free will.
The only way in which we dont have free will is that we cant do anything that God doesn't see. We are never free from His observation. Even satan--whom I believe was allowed to rebel and choose rebellion...was unable to break free of reality.
So did God create evil? In my belief, God created potential (or possible) evil and satan through his choice actualized evil. He took the action upon himself. So do we. We decide our course of action on a moment by moment basis. Just because the only options are the ones we choose does not remove our participation as aco-authors of our future.
Revelation explains it. Jesus was(past)is(present) and eternally shall be.
The Beast
once was(implying a fixed past)
is not and yet
is for those whose names are not written in the book of life.
So is the book of life fixed? or is it not?
Edited by Phat, : No reason given.
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