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Omniscience And Free Will
Posted by ahmad arif on May 8, 2025 at 9:42 amGod knows future.
If God tells a person that he will eat an apple on sunday. Would that person eat that apple necessarily or could he choose to not eat the apple?
Dr. Irfan Shahzad replied 1 week, 4 days ago 3 Members · 7 Replies -
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Omniscience And Free Will
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Ibrahim Kashif
Member May 8, 2025 at 4:32 pmBrother to make sense of reality it’s important to infer on the basis of empiricism and rationalism.
Ask yourself, does this happen in life?
Then why create such abstract mental jargon just to confuse oneself.
It leads to intellectual perversion.
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ahmad arif
Member May 8, 2025 at 5:43 pmCreating such a scenario is a necessity to analyze the claim that omniscience of God and free will of man can co exist.
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Ibrahim Kashif
Member May 9, 2025 at 12:06 pmYes omniscience and free will can co exist, but by creating such a scenario it leads to a paradox, which has nothing to do with our reality. So this scenario reduces to a hoax not reality. And you cannot understand reality from a hoax.
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ahmad arif
Member May 9, 2025 at 1:17 pmit’s not hoax. and it don’t lead to a paradox. A person claiming he knows the future, you simply ask him what will happen tomorrow which is a common question. you are not travelling to the past or to the future, you are just verifying the claim as you’re skeptical. otherwise I know the future too. I know what kashif will do tomorrow.
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Dr. Irfan Shahzad
Scholar May 9, 2025 at 4:53 amGod knows in advance what a person would do. His knowledge does not create or affect the action. The following example may give you an idea of how it works.
For example, if you have a time travel machine and you watch an event in the future, then you come back. You know what will happen, but you did not cause it.
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ahmad arif
Member May 9, 2025 at 6:16 amIf God tells a person that he will eat an apple on sunday. Would that person eat that apple necessarily or could he choose to not eat the apple?
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Dr. Irfan Shahzad
Scholar May 9, 2025 at 10:46 pmSince it goes against his hikmah, the way God created this scheme of test, thefore he never told a person when he was going to do.
In reality, a person goes to eat an apple and therefore God knows he will eat it.
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