Knowledge and choice
I am currently studying to teach the confused and I am in the third part of the chapters of providence. The Rambam is talking here about the opinion of certain people who, because they see “a righteous man and bad for him, a wicked man and good for him,” attribute ignorance to God, thereby turning a characteristic flaw (what the Rambam calls neglect or disregard) into a flaw in God’s essence.
I will not go into details here about the fact that the very arrival of those who attribute neglect to God and hence arrive at a lack of knowledge shows that they have not read the writings of Rabbi Michael Avraham, who suggests that the ideal is simply that God will not intervene, but that He wants man to be dependent on his own choices (and as far as I understood from a simple reading, this is also the opinion of Maimonides).
I ask a different question. After all, in the trilogy and in your interpretation in general, we assumed on the subject of knowledge and choice that because of a conceptual and logical analysis of the problem, it is obligatory that God does not know man’s choices. Isn’t this exactly the same problem?
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Just as according to the Rambam in Part 3, Chapter 16, he talks about people who had a problem so they downloaded knowledge from God, so too with choice and knowledge.
Because there is either choice or knowledge, we conclude that God does not know.
I don't understand the question. Are you against arguments? One of the arguments is that if any claim leads to a contradiction or something implausible then it is not true. Do you disagree with that? What exactly is the question here?
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