Re: [asa] The Fall (humanity source of suffering)

There may be a better way to put that. Perhaps instead of "undoing" the past, God "does" the past from the future. That's the basic idea of Ted Peters' emphasis on prolepsis, set out in his recent book Anticipating Omega. (My review is in the most PSCF.) The paper that I hope to give at the ASA meeting in August (health & economic constraints allowing) will deal with possible connections of this idea with physics (advanced potentials &c).

Shalom
George
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/

----- Original Message -----
From: "j burg" <hossradbourne@gmail.com>
To: "William Hamilton" <willeugenehamilton@gmail.com>
Cc: "Dehler, Bernie" <bernie.dehler@intel.com>; <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 11:24 AM
Subject: Re: [asa] The Fall (humanity source of suffering)

> Let me toss a comment into all this.
>
> With the assumption that God is omnipotent, is it possible for God to
> undo the past?
>
> That could be something simple from keeping you from stubbing your toe
> last month (ouch!) or preventing the recent earthquake in China.
>
> If the answer is "yes," then that may be a possible theodicy solution.
> Perhaps, in the New Earth, the Holocaust never happened. Or the
> Indonesian Tsunami.
>
> If the answer is "no," then that seems to mean that God is NOT "outside time."
>
> I tend to think a "yes" answer is not unreasonable.
>
> Comments?
>
> Burgy
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