Asimov said:
Then we have no choices in the matter...Adam had no choices, and neither did anybody else, because he gets what future he wants!
Again, a very arbitrary view.
God has control over the future in that his will will be done on earth, that is, he will bring about what he has promised in scripture and fulfil his original purpose for this earth.Genesis 1:28 Further, God blessed them and God said to them: "Be fruitful and become many and fill the earth and subdue it, and have in subjection the fish of the sea and the flying creatures of the heavens and every living creature that is moving upon the earth."
Isaiah 55:10-11 For just as the pouring rain descends, and the snow, from the heavens and does not return to that place, unless it actually saturates the earth and makes it produce and sprout, and seed is actually given to the sower and bread to the eater, so my word that goes forth from my mouth will prove to be. It will not return to me without results, but it will certainly do that in which I have delighted, and it will have certain success in that for which I have sent it.
Matthew 6:9-10 Our Father in the heavens, let your name be sanctified. Let your kingdom come. Let your will take place, as in heaven, also upon earth.
Psalm 46:9 He is making wars to cease to the extremity of the earth. The bow he breaks apart and does cut the spear in pieces; The wagons he burns in the fire.
Proverbs 2:21-22 For the upright are the ones that will reside in the earth, and the blameless are the ones that will be left over in it. As regards the wicked, they will be cut off from the very earth; and as for the treacherous, they will be torn away from it.
Psalm 37:10-11 And just a little while longer, and the wicked one will be no more; And you will certainly give attention to his place, and he will not be. But the meek ones themselves will possess the earth, And they will indeed find their exquisite delight in the abundance of peace.
Psalm 37:29 The righteous themselves will possess the earth, And they will reside forever upon it.
Revelation 11:18 But the nations became wrathful, and your own wrath came, and the appointed time for the dead to be judged, and to give [their] reward to your slaves the prophets and to the holy ones and to those fearing your name, the small and the great, and to bring to ruin those ruining the earth.
Revelation 21:3-4 With that I heard a loud voice from the throne say: Look! The tent of God is with mankind, and he will reside with them, and they will be his peoples. And God himself will be with them. And he will wipe out every tear from their eyes, and death will be no more, neither will mourning nor outcry nor pain be anymore. The former things have passed away.
This does not mean that individuals can not choose for themselves whether or not they wish to be part of this future.
Asimov said:
I didn't say he wasn't those. I'm saying he's not bound by those. I asked you to prove reasonably and logically how an all-knowing being, can not know something. You didn't.
Asimov said:
You just provided scripture, which I didn't want. If Scripture suggests that God does not know something, as you claim, then God is not all-knowing
Omniscient means all-knowing. If you have to find out things, you are not all-knowing. If you have to investigate things, you are not all-knowing.
He does know everything that exists, past and present. As for the future, since it hasnt happened yet he can choose to see it or not without this detracting from his omniscience. In the strict sense of the word Omniscience means All Knowing only for knowledge that has already been revealed or exists up to the present. It does not necessarily have to include the future since it has not happened. His being able to look into the future and foresee things that have not happened yet or "Investigate" as you say does not detract from his omniscience but enhances or adds to it.
Regards,
LB
