Originally posted by LemonJello
Sounds like you're just handwaving your way through this subject.
I'm not sure I understand what you mean when you stated the following:
[quote]Not that the future has already been played out, but---- given God's overarching knowledge of everything/all things--- the only possible conclusions to which He comes are the sureties of the future actions.[ ...[text shortened]... h as the assumption that you cannot do otherwise than perform A at T. Could you please clarify?
Sounds like you're just handwaving your way through this subject.
That seems like it would require some
very vigorous handwaving in order to register.
But in what sense is this "the only possible conclusion to which He comes" on the matter or whether or not you perform A at T?
"82, 82, 82. Of course, 246 total."
Ray had exceptional observational skill in the movie, Rainman, but God's knowledge is not based on observation or even exceedingly quick calculation.
Instead, His knowledge is the sum total of all that can be known.
How does that work?
Hell if I know!
As I said earlier, it's a topic that boggles the mind the one gets closer to it--- and not simply because it defies the logic found in our own limitations.
No matter what concrete integers might arise from our eventual discoveries, none of them will ever change the essence of the numbers we already know, nor will the functionality of basic math ever be fundamentally changed: one plus two will always equal three.
If it were possible to calculate or have all computations available, one could theoretically know everything there is to know. We've seen super computers endeavoring this very thing in more than a few fields of study. I don't think it's too far of a stretch to consider a mind with such capability, such capacity as knowing all the math in the universe--- before that mind creates the universe--- and therefore, all possible as well as all actual outcomes.