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Simple -- it is not fixed. Your choices and their possible effects, however uncountably many, ARE STILL FINITE.

Take the possible moves in any particular chess game. It is finite simply because it is played in a board that is finite and according to rules that are finite. The only way a chess game could drag on to infinity is by perpetual check, which isn't really an unknowable thing, since the moves merely repeat ad infinitum.

You need not be omnipotent to change the future in a significant way -- only the exercise of choice.

Just as your simple rational faculties can gain foreknowledge of the possible effects of your action, so does god's foreknowledge can -- only uncountably many times more infallible than yours.

Are you at all aware of how a computer's algorithm works?

When you speak of the universe originating from a space-time singularity, you are already talking of something physical arising from the non-physical.

Haven't you gotten at least this by now?

<blockquote data-quote="numinus" data-source="post: 65149" data-attributes="member: 537">Simple -- it is not fixed. Your choices and their possible effects, however uncountably many, ARE STILL FINITE.Take the possible moves in any particular chess game. It is finite simply because it is played in a board that is finite and according to rules that are finite. The only way a chess game could drag on to infinity is by perpetual check, which isn&#039;t really an unknowable thing, since the moves merely repeat ad infinitum.You need not be omnipotent to change the future in a significant way -- only the exercise of choice. Just as your simple rational faculties can gain foreknowledge of the possible effects of your action, so does god&#039;s foreknowledge can -- only uncountably many times more infallible than yours.Are you at all aware of how a computer&#039;s algorithm works?When you speak of the universe originating from a space-time singularity, you are already talking of something physical arising from the non-physical.Haven&#039;t you gotten at least this by now?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="numinus, post: 65149, member: 537"] Simple -- it is not fixed. Your choices and their possible effects, however uncountably many, [B][U]ARE STILL FINITE[/U][/B]. Take the possible moves in any particular chess game. It is finite simply because it is played in a board that is finite and according to rules that are finite. The only way a chess game could drag on to infinity is by perpetual check, which isn't really an unknowable thing, since the moves merely repeat ad infinitum. You need not be omnipotent to change the future in a significant way -- only the exercise of choice. Just as your simple rational faculties can gain foreknowledge of the possible effects of your action, so does god's foreknowledge can -- only uncountably many times more infallible than yours. Are you at all aware of how a computer's algorithm works? When you speak of the universe originating from a space-time singularity, you are already talking of something physical arising from the non-physical. Haven't you gotten at least this by now? [/QUOTE]

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