Cmekve@aol.com wrote:
>
> 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 -
Thanks. I'll pass this on. I know of Polkinghorne's general attitude toward
the block universe but not of this particular epigrammatic statement from him.
Shalom,
George
George L. Murphy
gmurphy@raex.com
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
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