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<DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>From: Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer <rygb@aishdas.org><BR>old TK:
> "Tzafui" absolutely does mean foreknowledge. And I don't want
to<BR>> hurt anyone's feelings but I really think that the denial that
Hashem<BR>> knows the future is apikorsus.<BR><BR>RYGB:It takes broad
shoulders to call the Ralbag an apikores...</FONT></DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>TK: Please show me where the Ralbag denies that Hashem knows the
future.</DIV>
<DIV><BR>RYGB: According to which one of the Yud Gimmel Ikkarim is that
Apikorsus anyway?<BR><BR><BR>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?</DIV>
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<DIV>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.</DIV>
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<DIV>--Toby Katz</DIV>
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