phyllo wrote: ↑Mon Apr 22, 2024 6:12 pm
Whatever "jiggery pockery and nonsense" IC has ...
The idea that God can know the future without the future being predetermined is pretty common in religion and Christianity.
But what is 'common' certainly does not mean that 'it' is even remotely close to the actual Truth of things.
If God, a claimed male gender thing, created the whole Universe, as some very immature and very closed individual human beings think or believe, then 'the future' was always 'predetermined' by that very 'thing'.
Is anyone able to explain how God, if God created the Universe with the intention of all living in peace and harmony forever more, could 'know the future' without the future being predetermined?
To me anyway, to claim that one could 'know a not predetermined future' is just self-contradictory.
However, in saying this, this does not change the irrefutable fact that 'free will' still exists in the 'predetermined future', nor the fact that morality is both subjective and objective.
phyllo wrote: ↑Mon Apr 22, 2024 6:12 pm
So he's just repeating a standard line of thinking.
No matter how Truly absurd and foolish the 'standard line of thinking' may well be.
phyllo wrote: ↑Mon Apr 22, 2024 6:12 pm
Of course, one can disagree and argue against it in a number of ways.
If a 'standard line of thinking' can actually be argued against, then it is invalid and/or unsound 'line of thinking'.