If he's all-knowing, then he knows the future of humanity, so he knows what his acts to help/punish humanity will be (such as miracles,...). So when the moment comes for a miracle to happen, he won't have any other choice but to do the miracle, hence he wouldnt't be almighty.
2006-09-21 01:16:14 · 20 answers · asked by jarynth3 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I'm not talking about God's logic, I'm talking about human logic. It's humans who attributed almight and all-knowledge to God, but humans are supposed to be affected by human logic. However, in this case human logic fails, which means these attributions to God are naive and illogical.
2006-09-21 01:25:50 · update #1
I think the best answer is "he trancends all time", in fact we could describe him better by saying his decisions and actions are not confined to a particular moment or place but simply "exist" or "take place". But why doesn't anyone see the logical flaw of the naive description?
2006-09-21 01:35:03 · update #2
that beyond your mind capability to think something like that. you just human.. how can you compare with god?
2006-09-21 01:20:27 · answer #1 · answered by Voltage Transformer 33kV 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
To understand the nature of God, you might need to accept a truth that is not easily grasped by a human concept of time and events. God is not seeing events unfold as we are. He has seen the end from the beginning. He knows all. We are no surprise to him. He is not sitting in dismay or aghast at anything, any choice, we make. He is not waiting on us to make a decision so he can decide on a miracle. It is finished. He already knew the end from the beginning. He's already written the end of the book and many people have read it... we win!!! I'm thinking it was planned that way.
2006-09-21 01:32:58 · answer #2 · answered by reformed 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This question comes in many forms, but the answer is always the same.
God does not answer to our sense of logic anymore than God responds to our lack of logic.
God's reason is not our reason. It is a mystery; hence we proclaim the mystery of faith.
To imagine that we might understand the ways of God is to open ourselves to confusion and bewilderment. Perhaps even madness.
2006-09-21 01:31:45 · answer #3 · answered by Temple 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He is God that is why He can be almighty and all-knowing the same time.
That is not so important to know why God allows so much suffering and disasters...it is important that where you are with your walk with faith when something like that happens...do you want to be with God or do you want to question and/or curse Him for that. This life here is only a temporary assignment. He has the whole eternity to make it up to us if we suffer here.
2006-09-21 01:32:47 · answer #4 · answered by SeeTheLight 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You've got it around the wrong way my friend...
God doesn't have to do things because he knows he is going to. He knows he is going to because "has done" them. Read that again and think about it.
It's like if I go to a football match I know who wins, and when I come home and watch it on TV hours later, those players HAVE to win because I know they are going to. In fact, it's the other way around; I know they are going to win because they did.
And in a sense God can look back on time before it happens, because he is outside it.
But a pretty cool question.
2006-09-21 01:37:23 · answer #5 · answered by girabbit85 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
But if he chooses to not do that miracle, his self billions of gazzillions of years ago has already decided not to do it.
God can see what he will do in the future becaue he understands his own character, and knows the nature of all his creations also.
2006-09-21 01:25:53 · answer #6 · answered by Sky_blue 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A moment doesn't come for God. He transcends all time and each miracle He performs, He has already done. He is much too large for us to wrap our minds around.
2006-09-21 01:23:09 · answer #7 · answered by Sleek 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That's a silly argument.
I don't won't to offend you but that's a little nuts.
Try to find out about Jesus instead of making pathetic attacks on God and you may understand something worthwhile.
2006-09-21 01:21:05 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
He knows all possible outcomes to any chain of events but he doesn't compromise human free will by making them choose one course of action over another.
2006-09-21 01:21:08 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't understand your logic. Being all knowing, He knows He will do it. Being Love He will do it.
Being all knowing is part of the definition of God.
2006-09-21 01:19:18 · answer #10 · answered by RB 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋