Asimov said:
This matter, however, is not closed. You are limiting God by saying he is bound by time. God is timeless, as shown in the metaphorical passage that a "day is a thousand years, and a thousand years is a day".
God is bound
TO time. He is the Grand Timekeeper.
Jehovah is known as "the Ancient of Days" and the God of Eternity. (Da 7:9; Ps 90:2; 93:2) That he is the most accurate Timekeeper is evident not only from the superb precision seen in the movements of the stellar bodies such as our Solar System but also from the divine record of his acts. In the fulfillment of his promises and prophecies, he caused events to occur spot on time, whether the intervening time was of only a day (Ex 9:5, 6), a year (Ge 17:21; 18:14; 21:1, 2; 2Ki 4:16, 17), decades (Nu 14:34; 2Ch 36:20-23; Da 9:2), centuries (Ge 12:4, 7; 15:13-16; Ex 12:40, 41; Ga 3:17), or millenniums (Lu 21:24).
Asimov said:
Omniscience is not a power to be used selectively.
And yet he does exactly that.
Genesis 22:12 And he went on to say: "Do not put out your hand against the boy and do not do anything at all to him, for now I do know that you are God-fearing in that you have not withheld your son, your only one, from me."
Only after Abraham had been tested did Jehovah then fully know the extent to abrahams faith. He did not prejudge him but allowed Abrahams own course and actions to demonstrate such.
Genesis 18:20-21 Consequently Jehovah said: "The cry of complaint about Sod´om and Go·mor´rah, yes, it is loud, and their sin, yes, it is very heavy. I am quite determined to go down that I may see whether they act altogether according to the outcry over it that has come to me, and, if not, I can get to know it."
Note here: Jehovah decides to investigate the complaints about Sodom to see if they are as bad as he had heard. To get to know the extent of the depravity going on there. Although having the ability to foreknow this situation he again demostrates the seletive use of his abilty to foreknow.
Asimov said:
To be all-knowing means to be all-knowing. The two (omniscience, and omnipotent) are two very different things. One is power, the other is knowledge. I will reinforce this by saying again that omniscience is not 'a' power. Being all-knowing contains power, but being all-knowing is not in and of itself a power.
see above.
Asimov said:
I know I repeated myself a few times there, but I want to get the point across.
God is not a psychic who divines answers to the future. It is all one thing. By saying he 'can' look into the future is a limitation in that he is bound by time. This is not true, God is not bound by time, and therefore does not look into the future.
No, by the fact that he is omniscient, puts power into his hands
God is in control of the future. He has already told us what future he has purposed for mankind. Not because he is "a psychic" as you say but because of his omnipotence and omniscience he can bring about any futre he desires. No one can stay his hand.
Daniel 4:34-35 And all the inhabitants of the earth are being considered as merely nothing, and he is doing according to his own will among the army of the heavens and the inhabitants of the earth. And there exists no one that can check his hand or that can say to him, What have you been doing?
It is in this sense that he knows the future. The future as he has fortold in scripture therefore is a foregon conclusion because he will with his omnipotence and omniscience bring about the very future that he wants.
Asimov said:
With God, there is no past, present, or future.
Jehovah is a God of the Past, Present and Future. The Bible is a gift from him that very much concerns the Past, Present and Future and as demonstrated above he is very concerned with time.
I am not YE howevr I may be able to help with the traditional view.
