Perils of Prophecy 2

Spare me! Someone said that all states are not possible once God has chosen what is going to happen. In essence, God has determined the outcomes already, the probability functions have collapsed, and the Rapture is on the 6:35 milk train from Jersey.

Well, well, well.
OK. If God "chooses" and determines the future, He thereby excludes a great number of possible futures. Therefore, His knowledge does not comprehend the possibility of these states being real outcomes in the real world. Therefore, they are - in a sense - closed to Him.
Therefore, God is not all-knowing.

In short, Deterministic Scenarios, the Rapture being one such, deny the Omniscience of God.
Omniscience implies a Complex and Probabilistic Future... and Free Will.

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note:

It has been suggested that God "knows" about the possible futures He has decided against.

That is a nonce use of the word "know".

It is as if I were using epistemology in a comedy routine.

In essence, the idea that God knows futures He has decided against is tantamount to saying that He is "

"a twiddler, a dreamer, a silly heart,... a jabberbox..."

(quote: Uncle Buck)

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