[Avodah] "God who knows the future"

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From: David Riceman <driceman at optimum.net>
>>...But  doesn't that last clause imply that God didn't know the future 
here? 
The  naive reading of this passage is that the Ramban agrees, if you'll 
pardon  the anachronism, with the Ralbag, who says that God can't know 
all the  details of the future because that would deny human free  will.<<

David Riceman






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>From our human point of view G-d makes it appear "as if" He doesn't know  
what we will do -- He does that by the simple expedient of keeping US in the  
dark about the future.  But of course He does know and yet that does not  
take away our bechira, because WE don't know.
 
To say that if G-d has total foreknowledge, then we don't have free will,  
or if we have free will, then He doesn't have foreknowledge, is a plain  
contradiction to what Chazal said.  It's in Pirkei Avos.  "Hakol  tzafui 
vehareshus nesunah."
 
 

--Toby Katz
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