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Default Re: OT: Jibjab, Politics, the Big Bang and more!

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Originally posted by spirokeat:
I have not yet come accross an arguement for omnipotence or omniscience to be logically impossible
I'm on thin ice here, but I do think Arryn's right, in that if you regard omniscience as perpetual awareness and knowledge of the future then there's a real problem with God holding us accountable and punishable for the sins He has always known we're going to commit.

I took a Jehovah's Witness to task on the issue once, and he responded that in his view, God's power to know the future is a power that He rarely chooses to exercise. In other words, while He could know the future, He usually chooses not to. I don't buy it myself, but who's to say it aint so?
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