omniscience

The subject of this thread occurred to me after perusing AvalonXQ's thread on omniscience and free will, i.e. the question of whether or not God's omniscience makes free will impossible. My feeling is that it would. However, I didn't bother posting on the thread, because others had pretty well...

I think the typical problem people have in reconciling these two concepts is that they have an idea in their head of how omniscience works and there's no reason to believe it actually works that way. Omniscience isn't conceptually any different than considering the past from the viewpoint of...

I recently had a visit from two ladies. It turned out that they were from the Jehovah’s Witnesses. Sadly, as I had just returned from a trip to the USA, and a long drive from Heathrow to get home, I really wasn’t in the mood for disputing religious beliefs. Normally, I might have enjoyed the...

God's Omnipotence From this thread Am merely reposting this because I thought BJQ87's reply was such a good answer. :)

Riddle me this. Although I’m an atheist I’ve always had a fascination with the Christian idea of God as an omniscient, omnipotent and loving being. Part of my interest in this is from looking at how Christians deal with the concept of evil and bad things happening to good people (I’ve...