Free will vs Omniscience

But there's plenty of 'em in the Bible.

Apparently the first requirement is that I should ignore what it actually says.What's the second? Does that involve burning it?

So I should think that it's true, and then and only then should I find out what it says. And then whatever it says, I should go on thinking that it's true.Well by that procedure, you could believe any dumb crap no matter how counterfactual and self-contradictory. And indeed, it's a procedure that one would only want to apply if one wanted to have a good chance of believing something false. No-one sincerely wanting the truth would have anything to do with it.One question that occurs to me is how you picked the text to which to apply this strange method of non-critical analysis. Why the Bible and not Alice In Wonderland? It can't have been through reading it and becoming convinced that it was true, because apparently one has to be convinced of that before one reads it --- otherwise one ends up like me, thinking that it's a load of old cobblers. So, is it true or false to say that God changed his mind?Edited by Dr Adequate, : No reason given.

So is it true or false to say that God changed his mind?Did he first intend to destroy the Israelites, and then after he talked to Moses abandon that intention, as the Bible says; or is he changeless and did he never have any intention of destroying the Israelites? That's not knowledge, Faith.Edited by Dr Adequate, : No reason given.

So you're not going to try? That's a shame, it might have been interesting.

That's an unusual collection of words.