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Knowledge of God in Rambam

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Hello, following your comment regarding the Maimonides' answer, which is meaningless:
If there is a creature living in a two-dimensional world, for example an A4 sheet. If we try to show it a three-dimensional ball, of course we cannot, but we can move the ball through the sheet and each time there will be a two-dimensional scan of the ball, so on the sheet at first a point will appear (the edge of the ball touches the sheet) then a circle that gets bigger (largest when the center of the ball is scanned on the sheet) and then smaller. If we have time we can scan the entire ball. Because the two-dimensional creature is limited in its perception, if it does not have the concept of time it will never be able to grasp the entire three-dimensional object, it will be stuck.
In a parable – we are the creatures who perceive reality only in a limited number of dimensions, every moment of the present is a scan from reality that actually exists on a "higher" dimensional level. God perceives reality as it is without the need for time. All reality exists statically (timeless) and God perceives it all, within that reality there are spaces that are subject to our choice (our free choice), God simply observes reality in a super-temporal way, we who are limited experience reality as a sequence of "scans" on a timeline in our limited dimensional space.
Thus there is choice, and there is knowledge of God (foreseeable and given permission). All concepts of choice and knowledge exist in a temporal manner in space. We only experience them as dependent on time. Thus the conceptual problem of knowledge "before" (there is no such thing as before because in truth there is no time, there is space) choice disappears.
Thank you for your attention. Thank you in advance.


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You state in many words the common answer that God is above time and space, etc., and therefore can do anything. This is irrelevant to the discussion. The question is not how He obtains the information, but after He has the information, how do we have free choice? See the series on knowledge and choice in my series.

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