Re: [TruthTalk] Religious Books

[Terry Clifton]

ShieldsFamily wrote: Oh, sorry Jonathan, I went to the website and there is a lot of explanation/information there.  One question about what he states: “I believe that sound philosophical arguments support the open view in which God doesn’t foreknow the future free decisions of humans.” How can that be true if God is actually standing outside of “time” as we know it, and can see everything from beginning to end from His perspective? Izzy Just speculating Iz,so let me throw this out for your consideration.  God is both omnipresent and omniscient, so He can know anything He wants to know.   Yet it seems to me that it would be rather boring, not to mention disheartening, to know beforehand every thing that was going to happen and how it was going to turn out.  No one wants to know beforehand how the movie ends.  I would think that God would at least at times just choose to wait and watch and see what happens.  I get the idea that He did that several times in the old testament, like when he checked out Sodom to see if it was as bad as had been reported to Him, or when He sent plague after plague on Egypt to see what it would take to break Pharaoh. Any thoughts? Terry