tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29322791.post2302254375580491691..comments2023-06-17T09:49:42.670-04:00Comments on This mortal life: A great explanation of God's foreknowledge and our "free" willDavid Wilhitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08187161025528660914noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29322791.post-60791448464082055392008-10-15T09:30:00.000-04:002008-10-15T09:30:00.000-04:00I'd be cautious about doing too much with the idea...I'd be cautious about doing too much with the idea that God is "outside of time." I haven't seen anywhere in scripture where that's <I>very</I> clearly stated.<BR/><BR/>And, even if it is true, that's a concept very much outside of our realm of understanding, so any philosophical conclusions we could make based on it would be tentative at best.Josh Justicehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01417591575070386140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29322791.post-62837812793877749152008-10-15T08:03:00.000-04:002008-10-15T08:03:00.000-04:00your mom's deisticyour mom's deisticAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29322791.post-62103488653249504072008-10-14T16:10:00.000-04:002008-10-14T16:10:00.000-04:00I do agree. He does stop short. And you're right...I do agree. He does stop short. And you're right about making God seem sometimes as merely an observer. I made a note at one particular spot in the reading that sounds deistic, becuase he doesn't really complete the thought how I would complete it.David Wilhitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08187161025528660914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29322791.post-56658747139197104542008-10-14T16:02:00.000-04:002008-10-14T16:02:00.000-04:00Back in my high school or early college days, I re...Back in my high school or early college days, I read something by CS Lewis ("Mere Christianity"?) which referred to this very work. I got "The Consolation" from the library and read it, but I can't claim to have understood very much. Hardly anything at all, actually.<BR/><BR/>Your excerpts are good. While they offer a plausible explanation of foreknowledge, they don't really deal with predestination. They still leave God more as observer than as controller, don't you think? Not wrong, just incomplete.Arnoldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06233810363450375283noreply@blogger.com