> Hi Ray,
>
> I have often wondered how we can be considered to have 'free will' if God
> already knows what choice I will make.
>
> The answer I have heard in reply to this is that God is not 'inside' time as we
> are. That because he is the 'I Am', the past, present and future all happen
> 'now' for God. So in that sense, He is not deciding or seeing the 'future' but
> He sees 'now'.
>
> I kinda see that explanation as some sort of goobledy-gook because no matter
> when the future is for God, time for me happens along a linear structure so 2
> hrs ago when I did not know I would be writing this e-mail, God did.
>
> My question I guess is - Is God's sense of time the only time that really
> matters? Just because tomorrow is the furture for me, it isn't for God so my
> sense of time has no bearing whatsoe ver in this matter?
>
> Thanks
> Sean
Dear Sean: I will write a paper (or maybe speak on it at the Mobile Fall Conference) on "Another look at eternity."
I too have heard all the giant thinking of scholars on this subject and how God lives in the past and in the future at the same time, etc. It sounds so pious, and mystical, and deep, and.......and.....ah, illogical. Later........
God be with you,
Ray
