Not hardly, and even more, I'm not sure what it could mean to know something "some of the time."
My apologies for not being clear, Taxt, but what I mean is that one could choose utilize foreknowledge or not. In other words, I would refrain from looking into the future to predict a path...though I am able.
True.Generally, once a thing is known by a knower, it does not become "unknown" after that. In other words, "forgotten" things are not the same as "unknown" things
Basically, my point was that since God, Biblically speaking, can know everything, that doesn't explicitly mean we as individuals don't have free will.Frankly, I don't understand how any of the above uliertains to my question. I just don't understand what you're saying here.
For example, if you ran a foster home and all of the kids there were generally bad, you could posit that all the kids will turn out bad. However, that doesn't mean that you don't have any good kids individually, or that some kids can change.
Correct, as I understand that. I just shared the details for completeness-sake.I'm not particularly interested in the details any one story or another in the Bible,
Unless this is just a mind-stimulating exercise, I don't think this is possible.but rather I'm trying to discern if there can be established a sufficiently thorough or detailed understanding of god's foreknowledge in particular.
I don't think we can know if God foreknew whether or not Noah would stay that way for sure, but I would say that God didn't. Let me explain using another Bible account.In this case, I'm not interested in whether or not Noah would "stay that way," but whether or not we can tell that god foreknew that Noah would or would not "stay that way."
With Adam and Eve, he gave them the command to not eat from the tree of knowledge under penalty of death. If he foreknew they'd do it, then that command would be meaningless, pointless, and would be awfully cruel to tell them not to do something that he had full knowledge that they would do.
I'd say that the fact that God set some guidelines out as regards that tree means that he didn't know what they would do, or there wouldn't have been a point to the guidelines. Why lay out guidelines that would serve no purpose? How could anyone justify God's punishment if he "foreknew"?
So I apply this to Noah as God giving humans individual freedom, unless explicitly stated otherwise.
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