God'S Foreknowledge And His Creative Ability
However, whenever and wherever He chooses, He changes the course. This is his improvisation. However, everything he created and every function which is to take place comes to His knowledge. Thanks for the response but l am afraid there’s still some ambiguity here. Does the improvisation of God follow from his foreknowledge in a predetermined fashion? If it does, then we can’t give it the label of creative intervention. Creativity by definition is open to possibilities (infinite in case of God) that haven’t been determined to occur in knowledge. We know time doesn’t exist in reality since God is not confined by it. If time doesn’t exist, then foreknowledge is more of a storage and nothing but a sum of open infinite possibilities. The divine knowledge ( separate from foreknowledge ) of “every day/instant” is itself in flux like time and the universe, being constantly renewed in each divine disclosure “Whoever is within the heavens and earth asks Him; every day He is bringing about a matter. Of Him seeks (its need) every creature in the heavens and on earth: every day in (new) Splendour doth He (shine)! ” The past, present and the future is subject to change and God wills to disclose one possibility of the infinite possibilities contained in his storage/foreknowledge. In this way, we have to concede the past,present and future of a new disclosure isn’t predetermined. ( Divine disclosure operates outside of time in a manner we can’t understand and “every day” is just a symbol of it )