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And this is where I am stuck. As soon as you don't know something, your knowledge is less. I am confused on how you can get an infinite increase in knowledge when you don't know something.
I'll try to explain better. Lets say I have 3 consecutive decisions, and each decision has 3 possible choices, and each previous decision affects each subsequent decision. If God is technically omniscient, then he knows the results of each of those 3 "decisions". So God knows the information associated with 3 decisions.
If God does not know the decision, but instead knows the affect of all possible decisions, then He knows what would happen if I chose any of the 3 possible choices at the first decision point. Since the first decision affects the second, he must know how any of those choices affect the next decision and the results of the second decision as well, meaning he knows the information associated with 3^2 . Add a third decision with 3 options, and God knows the information associated with 3^3 decisions. And He knows these right from the start. So as soon as He gives me 3 decisions, He has fully knowledge of all the information associated with 27 different outcomes.
In the first case, God doesn't have to know what happens if I chose B or C at each juncture, because he knows I will always chose A. In the second case, He knows what will happen no matter which option I chose, but He doesn't know which option I will choose.
Hope that makes more sense.
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