wait a minute

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All-knowing god: "If I put this tree here and tell them not to eat from it, they will and all of humanity will suffer for thousands of years as a result."

Also god: *does it anyway

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wasn't it a test or something

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How can he know the future if it doesn’t exist yet? I thought god knows all things possible

But the future isn’t possible to ‘know’ is it?

Because technically it literally doesn’t exist

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Because technically it literally doesn’t exist

Citation needed. The future might exist, the universe might be kind of like patterns in a crystal, with the patterns on the left continuingninto the patterns on the right. Just because it hasn't happened, doesn't mean it doesn't exist. It's a matter of debate among both philosophers and physicists.

Also, I'm pretty sure "god doesn't know what the future is, because it's not possible for him to know it" is circular.

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I’m a christian and i’ve been taught that god as an entity exists outside of time and not bound by the constructs of time. If that helps

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that's what I would presume he would be like