[Avodah] "God who knows the future"

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From: Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer <rygb at aishdas.org>
old TK:  > "Tzafui" absolutely does mean foreknowledge.  And I don't want  
to
> hurt anyone's feelings but I really think that the denial that  Hashem
> knows the future is apikorsus.

RYGB:It takes broad  shoulders to call the Ralbag an apikores...

 
TK: Please show me where the Ralbag denies that Hashem knows the  future.

RYGB: According to which one of the Yud Gimmel Ikkarim is that  Apikorsus 
anyway?


TK: The sixth one, "all the words of the Nevi'im  are true."  How can the 
Nevi'im know the future if Hashem Himself doesn't  know the future?
 
 
PS. RMB's post about how Hashem is outside of time and therefore terms like 
 "past" and "future" are irrelevant to Him -- all very well, but in our 
human  perspective, Hashem knows our past and our future, so down here on Earth 
the  question about His foreknowledge and our bechira remains, except that 
I think it  is adequately answered by saying that since /we/ don't know the 
future, our  choices are not constrained.
 
--Toby Katz
 
 
 
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