In a message dated 6/9/00 4:23:06 AM Mountain Standard Time, gmurphy@raex.com
writes:
<< A friend has asked me a question to which (amazingly) I don't know the
answer.
Who said, "God knows all the future there is"? Anybody have a clue?
Shalom,
George >>
Hi George.
Unless I'm misinterpreting the spirit of your quote, a similar but not exact
phrase is in John Polkinghorne's book "Serious Talk: Science and Religion in
Dialogue": Trinity Press International, 1995. It is found in the first
phrase in parentheses in the following quote:
"I also believe that in such a world even God does not know the future. That
is no imperfection in the divine nature, for the unformed future is not yet
there to be known. God possesses a current omniscience (God knows all that
can now be known) but not a total omniscience (God does not yet know all that
will be knowable). The act of creation involves a voluntary limitation, not
only of divine power in allowing the other to be, but also of divine
knowledge." [p. 86]
I suspect (because it sounded so familiar) that Polkinghorne may have used
your exact quote in another of his books, but I don't have time to check
today. Maybe tomorrow. Or is the intent of your quote just the opposite of
what Polkinghorne is saying? I can't be sure from the snippet you've
provided.
Karl
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