Concerning your debate with the professor who claims that if God knows everything then His foreknowing makes men very much like puppets or machines. Persons who think of God like himself has no knowledge of God

Expressions researched:
"Concerning your debate with the professor who claims that if God knows everything then His foreknowing makes men very much like puppets or machines" |"Persons who think of God like himself has no knowledge of God"

Correspondence

1975 Correspondence

Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated September 29, 1975, and I have noted the contents with care. Concerning your debate with the professor who claims that if God knows everything then His foreknowing makes men very much like puppets or machines. Persons who think of God like himself has no knowledge of God. He immediately becomes a mudha, fool rascal.

751021 - Letter to Satsvarupa written from Johannesburg

My dear Satsvarupa das Maharaj,Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated September 29, 1975, and I have noted the contents with care. Concerning your debate with the professor who claims that if God knows everything then His foreknowing makes men very much like puppets or machines.Persons who think of God like himself has no knowledge of God. He immediately becomes a mudha, fool rascal. Avajananti mam mudha (BG 9.11)... God is omniscient and omnipotent. He knows everything what is going to happen. Therefore to save the living entity from future calamity He says, sarva dharman parityajya mam ekam saranam vraja(BG 18.66)... So although He knows what is going to happen in the future, He can cancel all that was going to happen by His Grace, that is God's omnipotency.