نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی
عنوان مقاله English
نویسندگان English
The relationship between infallible divine knowledge and human free will has always been a subject of interest in Abrahamic religions.
This descriptive-analytical study employs the findings of Einstein's theory of relativity to demonstrate that the belief in the presence of all world events, including human free actions, in a single "present" moment for God is a reasonable and justified belief.
In fact, considering the relativity of the past and future, as well as the eternal-temporal simultaneous presence of God with world events—as proposed by Stump and Kretzmann based on the laws of relativity—it is concluded that the entirety of elapsed world-time is present to God in a single moment (without temporal changes).
Since knowledge of the present moment does not conflict with the free will of any agent for any observer, God's infallible knowledge is therefore compatible with human free will.
However, from the human perspective, this same free will is perceived as the illusion of determinism due to a mistaken understanding of space-time.
Thus, comparing the divine and human perspectives, and given that God, by definition, has no false beliefs, it can be said that the truth of human actions is free will, which is present to God, and this truth manifests to humans as the illusion of determinism because of their incorrect perception of space-time.
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