How can God know everything if the future is never complete?

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Heaven will be everlasting, and because we are finite and will have bodies, there is in some sense “time” even if different from now. Whatever the case, the future is everlasting.

So how can God have a complete knowledge of everything in His eternal “Now” if the future is never complete?
 
Because for HIM there is no past, present or future.
HIS “now” encopases even the everlasting future.
 
So then his “Now” is constantly progressing onward? That sounds like changing.
 
How can the creator of everything not know everything. Think of it this way, God created every minute, even this one that you are reading this reply.
 
Because we are finite, and God is infinite we cannot comprehend everything.

God is outside of time, and knows what our free will choices will be.
 
The issue is that God by definition knows everything all at once. He does not know something now, and then gain knowledge bit by bit.

And yet, the future progresses bit by bit onward to infinity.
 
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Even this moment, that you are reading this reply, is God’s creation.
 
God is outside of time. The future is now for God. Eternity is now. It’s all the same for God. It’s not that God knows what will happen… it’s all before God - past, present and future.
 
But the point is the future is not a complete set of discrete bits of time. For the future is everlasting. It’s potentially infinite.

Yet God is supposed to know all at once. But if there is not a complete set of discrete things to know, then how can we say God knows everything all at once?
 
The future progresses for us who live in the temporal moment. But since Gd does NOT live in the temporal moment, the future does not progress for Him but instead is the eternal present.
 
HIS now does NOT progress… NOW is NOW eternally for HIM.
Our future, trillion of years in the future and even to infinity is already HIS now…But alas it shall not pass, “Infinity” that is.
When all the energy of our universe has expended itself and there is no more change, this Universe will be lifeless and dead.
And the scriptures tell us that there will be a new Heaven and a new Earth and it will not require the Sun because our light will be HIM…
 
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But the point is the future is not a complete set of discrete bits of time. For the future is everlasting. It’s potentially infinite.

Yet God is supposed to know all at once. But if there is not a complete set of discrete things to know, then how can we say God knows everything all at once?
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God is also not finite, yet he fully knows himself and everything he does.
 
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But the point is the future is not a complete set of discrete bits of time. For the future is everlasting. It’s potentially infinite.

Yet God is supposed to know all at once. But if there is not a complete set of discrete things to know, then how can we say God knows everything all at once?
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You make a good point. I don’t think we can comprehend how, but i think we can understand that…
  1. It follows necessarily that a never ending series of events is known to a being that doesn’t participate in the temporal order, as odd as that sounds.
  2. Also God is the very act of reality in which the universe moves and has it’s being, thus it is impossible for God not to know that which is dependent upon him for it’s existence.
  3. God is not physical, and so it is meaningless to think that God’s knowledge would be constrained to particular events in space time.
 
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But the point is the future is not a complete set of discrete bits of time. For the future is everlasting. It’s potentially infinite.

Yet God is supposed to know all at once. But if there is not a complete set of discrete things to know, then how can we say God knows everything all at once?
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But that’s not correct. “The future” is a function of space-time. When the heavens and the earth pass away, so will time. “Eternal life” in Heaven isn’t “more of the same, just without pain and without ever ending”; it’s wondrous joy without the passage of time.

Think of God standing at His workbench contemplating His project, the universe. For Him, it’s four-dimensional. He can look at its entire length, its entire width, its entire height, and its entire duration.

As it says in the Bible, to God, a day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years are as a day. God is outside time. He can see it all as He wishes.
 
God knows all and sees all at once. Everything is one perfect moment to him, and nothing changes.
 
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And yet, the future progresses bit by bit onward to infinity.
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For those bound by time, that’s what it appears like, but God isn’t bound by time, so this doesn’t necessarily apply to Him.
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But the point is the future is not a complete set of discrete bits of time. For the future is everlasting. It’s potentially infinite.
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And God is Himself infinite, so I’m not sure that an infinite future poses a problem to His ability to know all.
 
The Church calls such things a Mystery because how could we possibly know what is going on, this link is interesting and shows reality just isn’t what anyone could have thought.

www.sciencedaily.com

Quantum Theory Demonstrated: Observation Affects Reality

One of the most bizarre premises of quantum theory, which has long fascinated philosophers and physicists alike, states that by the very act of watching, the observer affects the observed reality.
www.sciencedaily.com
 
To be “outside of time” is logically incoherent but to complex to discuss here.
 
Once you believe in an omnipotent being that created the entire Universe, believing he lives outside of time doesn’t seem so “logically incoherent”.
 
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