Should God know the future? Assuming He is real, being omniscient has to be God's greatest attribute. The amount of knowledge required to run the physical universe is staggering, let alone other realms. However I see a couple of problems with it.
I'm not sure if God can be omniscient with a plan. A plan implies a strategy and in order for it to be perfectly executed then every cause and effect has to have been choreographed by God Himself, nothing can be haphazard.
If you take me for instance, every particle of my being has to have been arranged just for this moment. If one of my atoms is from a supernova explosion 10 billion years in the past then God arranged for cosmic events to occur over that time period in order for that one piece of the puzzle to be a part of me. Multiply that by who knows what and you'll arrive at a figure that's transcalculational. He has to possess this knowledge just to be able to predict the future with unerring accuracy. There is no other way.
Can he simply predict a future event without worrying about how everything comes to be in place? Possibly, but I don't see how without the complete knowledge of the universe and by employing a hands on approach. He would have to give up omniscient status if He lacked control.
So in actuality I'm offering a reason for God, the orchestrator of everything. This must be what He does every waking second, ensure the plan works as He said it would. Wait a minute. If every moment, infinite little bits of time, has God doing His thing on a universal scale just so the plan succeeds then He wouldn't get past one second, let alone 15 billion years while lost in infinite segments of time.
God still may exist but He isn't omniscient. Oh I'm sure God can count to infinity if He had to, but I cannot see Him as all knowing. There is a paradox of information, there can be no infinites if God is to carry out His strategy. Maybe God set things in motion and relied on His super knowledge to calculate likelihoods but that's it.
I'm not sure if God can be omniscient with a plan. A plan implies a strategy and in order for it to be perfectly executed then every cause and effect has to have been choreographed by God Himself, nothing can be haphazard.
If you take me for instance, every particle of my being has to have been arranged just for this moment. If one of my atoms is from a supernova explosion 10 billion years in the past then God arranged for cosmic events to occur over that time period in order for that one piece of the puzzle to be a part of me. Multiply that by who knows what and you'll arrive at a figure that's transcalculational. He has to possess this knowledge just to be able to predict the future with unerring accuracy. There is no other way.
Can he simply predict a future event without worrying about how everything comes to be in place? Possibly, but I don't see how without the complete knowledge of the universe and by employing a hands on approach. He would have to give up omniscient status if He lacked control.
So in actuality I'm offering a reason for God, the orchestrator of everything. This must be what He does every waking second, ensure the plan works as He said it would. Wait a minute. If every moment, infinite little bits of time, has God doing His thing on a universal scale just so the plan succeeds then He wouldn't get past one second, let alone 15 billion years while lost in infinite segments of time.
God still may exist but He isn't omniscient. Oh I'm sure God can count to infinity if He had to, but I cannot see Him as all knowing. There is a paradox of information, there can be no infinites if God is to carry out His strategy. Maybe God set things in motion and relied on His super knowledge to calculate likelihoods but that's it.
