In this film anology, a couple things should be clarifiedkenblogton wrote:Reply to Paidion
I believe that God knows, and has established - ordained - all our possible choices from the Creation. If He doesn't know them all, He's NOT omniscient. So whatever choices we make cannot surprise God. Think of God's foreknowledge as akin to having multiple copies of a film of our life. Each copy represents our different choice decision trees; the copy that's distributed is solely based on our choices. At each choice point, until we make our choice, we have more than one choice; after each of our choices, we've narrowed down our life choice possibilities.
kenblogton
1. These other films actually exist in the analogy. But you said the future possibilities that we end up not choosing don't actually exist. Is this a weakness in the analogy or are you changing your answer?
2. You seem to be defending that omniscience means God knows everything. But earlier you stated that God doesn't know what choice we'll make (just that God knows all the possibilities). Isn't God not knowing what choice we'll make a logical limit to omniscience? Isn't it the same logical limit that open theists are comfortable with?