(urth) Limited Good Choices

[Jeff Wilson]

On 8/12/2010 11:41 PM, Lee Berman wrote:
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>
>> Nicholas Jost: If you look in the archive there was the assumption in a post that
>> as people moved "up" towards Yesod that choices would be limited.  Nothing in the
>> text or Catholic theology supports such silliness.
>
> I am guessing this was my post you are referring to. It is based on the idea that
> we humans feel we have choices because of the limits to our perception of the future.
> We can only guess what will happen if we do something, so we feel we have choices.
>
> If we could see into the future we would be limited in our choices. We wouldn't
> wonder what we should do because we'd know what we are about to do. An omniscient
> being would have no choices whatsovever.

I think this assertion has weak empirical and logical support. Humans 
make poor choices even when they have reasonable knowledge of the 
consequences, and there's no treatment of the idea that G-d may choose 
not to foresee everything.


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