JW wrote:
On another thread, it was argued that God cannot change His mind because He is omniscient. The definition of omniscience does not include clairvoyance. Knowing everything does not include reading the minds of others. It does include great knowledge and great insight but as powerful as those things might be, they do not include knowing for a fact what the future holds.
So, if God can't read minds, how can He possibly answer prayers? God is also described as omnipresent. That being the case, He is with everyone, everywhere, all of the time. Ergo, God can see you and hear you and understand what you need and are asking for. Although, most Christians will admit that God sometimes answers requests with a "no". Christians believe that God provides what is needed but not always what is wanted. When needs are not met, Christians rely on God's judgment and realize that they cannot always understqnd what God intends for them and why some things are allowed to happen.
From the vantage point of God, knowing how the future will unfold, would effectively invalidate the concept of free will. Each human being would then be effectively preprogrammed to follow that single path that God already knows. As such He would not have created an independent intelligence with whom to commune and to impress for worship. Rather He would have so many biological robots to watch like the engineer on a model railroad.
God, if you want to argue Him, must be taken as He has presented Himself (or as He has been presented by those who know Him).
Science, if you want to argue from that perspective, must be done from the knowns and unknowns of science.
You cannot apply the contexts of the one to the other and you cannot invent or prohibit aspects of the other context in your argument.
Science is limited to what is provable and God is limited only to His time honored description.
On another thread, it was argued that God cannot c... (
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Omniscience includes clairvoyance.
Next question.