Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxq.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!ihuxq!amigo2 From: amigo2@ihuxq.UUCP (John Hobson) Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: Re: Omniscience vs. Free Will (again!) Message-ID: <691@ihuxq.UUCP> Date: Wed, 22-Feb-84 09:55:50 EST Article-I.D.: ihuxq.691 Posted: Wed Feb 22 09:55:50 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 24-Feb-84 00:27:57 EST References: <844@ssc-vax.UUCP> <6806@unc.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 18 Byron Howes sums up his argument as: >> If the Deity is omniscient, then it knows what we are going >> to do today, tomorrow, or for eternity. It doesn't *matter* >> whether or not we are made to do it. To an all-knowing >> diety, the outcome and all outcomes are *known.* The human >> notion of "free will" is irrelevant in the face of that knowledge. But that is just the point, just because God knows what we are going to do makes not the slightest bit of difference as to whether or not we choose to do it. Our choice is not dependent on someone else's knowing what the outcome is, particularly when there is no attempt to communicate that knowledge to us. John Hobson AT&T Bell Labs Naperville, IL (312) 979-0193 ihnp4!ihuxq!amigo2