Many Worlds If you use the Many Worlds theory, the same argument holds. If he can whiz up and down all possible timelines, then all possible actions are predetermined (and occur) in some sense. So again no free will. Breaks the rules.
The sort of God I don't think that is the sort of God we are talking about. I could be wrong, the "outside of time" bit isn't in the Bible. Doesn't the Bible just say that he's eternal, and kind of imply by his actions and speach that he's experiencing time linearly too?
Well, I suppose the question of free will in the Many Worlds multiverse remains, whether or not God is involved. If all our possible choices are ultimately played out, are we really making choices at all? But that, perhaps, is a discussion for another time.
As for the type of God under discussion, I'm hardly a Bible scholar, being cheerfully agnostic myself, but while the Good Book might imply God experiences time as mortals do, I've seen modern philosophers and theologians discuss Divine nature in the terms I was suggesting.
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If you use the Many Worlds theory, the same argument holds. If he can whiz up and down all possible timelines, then all possible actions are predetermined (and occur) in some sense. So again no free will. Breaks the rules.
The sort of God
I don't think that is the sort of God we are talking about. I could be wrong, the "outside of time" bit isn't in the Bible. Doesn't the Bible just say that he's eternal, and kind of imply by his actions and speach that he's experiencing time linearly too?
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As for the type of God under discussion, I'm hardly a Bible scholar, being cheerfully agnostic myself, but while the Good Book might imply God experiences time as mortals do, I've seen modern philosophers and theologians discuss Divine nature in the terms I was suggesting.