[Avodah] A God who knows the future

[Hankman]

Rn'TK wrote:
> A finite line can contain an infinite number of points but the traveler
> does not have to touch separately each and every one of those points to
> get to the end of the line.

Just to nit pick a little, I think that statement is wrong in a
strict mathematical sense if you are treating the line (distance) as
a continuum. There is a theorem in calc 101 that a continuous function
must pass through all points to go from a to b. The body does not pass
(exist at) point a and then b and not exist at some of the intermediate
points, but must pass through ALL the points in between.

I think the standard answer given to Zeno's paradox is that the way the
paradox is constructed, it is by design a limit of a sequence that of
course converges to its limit, but that is not to say that the limit may
not be exceeded by some other construct (such as x+1, x+2, x+3 ....). It
is just the problem (construct) as stated that converges to this limit
and no other.

[Email $2. -micha]

I am sorry, I hit the Enter key too quickly. I meant to add to the
previous post that I do not see how your facile answer that since we do
not know the future, there is no problem with how bechira exists and is
not constraned due to HKB'H's fore knowledge. What difference does our
lack of fore knowledge have to do with it. This amounts to saying that
in truth we do not have bechira, just we don't know it at the time we
are making our "choice" because we are not omniscient about what HKB'H
already knows. The question is why is our choice not constrained, not
whether we are ignorant about the constraint.

Kol Tuv
Chaim Manaster