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04-13-2011, 12:41 AM
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Pyuvjzwf
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Hello,
Well, I'll try to answer your question, in what I think. And that might not be true or correct. So forgive me for any misunderstanding.
This is how I see it:
First of all. Is knowledge infinite, does it have a limit?
I myself think it's infinite, knowledge does not have a limit. We humans are limited.
But we can't determine where our limit is, the limit of our understanding of the world.
Nonetheless, we can try to give some sort of answer with our limited understanding.
I think freewill is our intention. In Islam the intention is important and not the consequention.
I guess there are certain levels of intention, which depends on the context in which a human being is placed.
Our intention to do something is the core of our freewill
. The result (consequention) is something God decides about.
Free-will and determinism can go in combination. Because a deterministic view gives us the opportunity to evade 'something' with our intention.
If I throw a ball with paint at you, the deterministic view will give you the opportunity to calculate the orbit of this ball. Your free-will will then help you to evade it.
An idea about this is time. God for example is not limited to time, time itself is a perception.
An object that moves from A to B with a certain speed, takes time. We human beings need this concept of time, to understand the world.
So God sees the future and the past at the same time. God does not 'foresee', that would mean that He is limited to time.
I understand it's a difficult topic.
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