Dear David,
My point was always that we do not know our personal future except some
gross features that seem to be inevitable, for instance, death. I like to
think of macroscopic predictions, which are the Biblical prophesies, and the
microscopic predications, which are the futures of individuals. It is in the
realm of the microscopic, in this sense, that we exercise our free will.
The laws that dictate our spacetime are of the macroscopic kind as all the
laws that deal with the nonliving.
Take care,
Moorad
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From: dfsiemensjr@juno.com <dfsiemensjr@juno.com>
To: alexanian@uncwil.edu <alexanian@uncwil.edu>
Cc: mortongr@flash.net <mortongr@flash.net>; mahaffy@mtcnet.net
<mahaffy@mtcnet.net>; asa@calvin.edu <asa@calvin.edu>
Date: Sunday, March 26, 2000 6:09 PM
Subject: Re: Possible impact of ID
>
>
>On Sun, 26 Mar 2000 17:01:29 -0500 Moorad Alexanian
><alexanian@uncwil.edu> writes:
>> Dear Glenn,
>>
>> I think one ought to distinguish between knowing the future and
>> telling the
>> people involved in the predications about the future. A person
>> living in
>> our spacetime and knowing the future can make predications that we
>> can know
>> and verify. But God, although He knows the future, does not make
>> predications because He is not in our spacetime to tell us of His
>> predications. The interactions between God and the universe and its
>> people
>> is a difficult one. I am just stating my own guesses. But Scripture
>> is
>> always correct and our understanding of our experiences has to fit
>> with that
>> fact.
>>
>> Take care,
>>
>> Moorad
>>
>>
>This, IMO, overlooks one important proviso. If I can predict your future
>and tell you, you're probably cussed enough to respond with an "I won't!"
>Of course, if you're in free fall on your way down past the 33rd story
>and I yell that you're going to go splat, I'd be correct, for at that
>point you'd be in the grip of inexorable causality. But, in anything you
>can alter, bets are off if you know what has been predicted.
>
>Dave
>
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