Beware

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Splendour,

Is there room in certain parts of Christian philosophy for the fact that God himself allows a certain inclination towards not knowing the results himself?

I only ask because I find pure omnipotence illogical, and perhaps an extremely powerful being would find it very interesting to follow a development without knowing the results yet.

I guess what I'm saying he doesn't meddle, but he wouldn't be surprised by the results either. He knows all, just not which all and how it gets there.

Make sense?

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Well I can't speak for all Christians here, but I will give you my personal take. I think he allows us freewill within the boundaries of his plan, I personally think he does know everything. We're in a spiritual war 24/7 that most people don't perceive so they unwittingly join the wrong side, but God wins. The war is being fought on 2 fronts: first front is in the individual for the hearts and minds of men and second front is in the world at large so we have wars and all other kinds of conflicts.

That's why there are 2 kingdoms of God and people are constantly confused when the bible mentions the kingdom of god. Which kingdom is being talked about? Well there are two: 1) the kingdom of God that is within you 2) the kingdom of God that is a future place that will be established by God after Judgment Day. If you win the inner war then you may or may not pay a physical price with the outer war, but you ultimately win eternally.

I don't know if you read an earlier post I made where I put in the link to biblical prophecies. I find them very interesting. Here's the page to 10 of them currently being fulfilled. http://www.100prophecies.org/page1.htm

Note: its pretty hard for people to fight a double war when most of its unseen. That's why scripture is so important. It's about the only way we know about the war and can figure out what to do.


Quote: perhaps an extremely powerful being would find it very interesting to follow a development without knowing the results yet.

I kind of doubt this because this quality reminds me of human beings with their capacity to gossip and enjoy scandals and God specifically tells us not to indulge in gossip so I don't think he'd do it either.