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Though the characteristics of God proposed by both Swinburne and Rowe are in many respects identical, some glaring differences remain, along with differing explanations for the characteristics of God. ... ” It is difficult to comprehend how Swinburne can accept the idea of God existing outside of the physical world and yet consider the idea of God existing outside of time unreasonable. ... Swinburne’s interpretation of God’s eternal nature seems to be an attempt to reconcile the seemingly contradictory concepts of divine omniscience and human free will by stating that God exists in the same time frame as humanity and therefore cannot know anything about what will happen in the future. Unfortunately for Swinburne, this definition restricts God’s potential knowledge to the level of an ideally informed human, which begs the question: “Is God’s omniscience anything special if God’s knowledge is no greater than the potential knowledge of humanity?
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