wandeljw wrote:neologist,
C.I. was referring to this statement:
Quote:God has forsight and made the judgement. All the little bitty babies were gonna grow and become horrible people apparently.
Can you explain it for us? Is the bible consistent about this?
I knew that. I just couldn't pass up a chance to dis CI's spelling.
But, you are quite right. The subject of foreknowledge, and omniscience is one which needs more than a little explaining. I've been trying to get a discussion started on this
thread , but it does not seem to be developing as I had hoped.
Actually, there are two things to be considered in Rex's far fetched post:
One is the condition of the dead and what, if any, hope they might have.
But since you inquired about foresight or foreknowledge, let me advance this:
God makes it abundantly clear in many parts of the bible that we have choices, thus implying free will. The idea of free will is incompatible with the generally accepted definition of omniscient: that God must, of necessity, know all things in advance. To accept that categorically would be to place blame on God for all the human misery that has plagued mankind for the 6000 years or so of recorded history.
God's word places the blame for our woes squarely on Satan and his Edenic conscripts. If you disbelieve that, you would, I think, be at a loss to explain the story of Jesus who claimed to be the mirror image of his father.
So, as I have said not a few times before: God has no more necessity to know the outcome of all things than we are to look at the last page of the whodunit.
