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CC157: If God Knows the Future, Why Pray? (Interview with Dr. Scott Davison)

Capturing Christianity Podcast

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God's Relationship to the Future

There's a mole in his picture where god knows what everything would do, and on that basis can infer what the future will be like. A yew call hope and theism says God doesn't know all the future in all its detail. This is gaining round even among some conservative christians. So depending on which view you take about god's relationship to the future,. that's got to influence the way you think about prayer making a difference. We might say, in a way, that what god knows about the future actually depends in some way on what you choose to do now.

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