We CAN'T 'leave the past aside, because what now seems the future will become the past.
I agree with you. If you know the future then there is no decision to make about it.
On the other side, if you don't know the future that does not entail that the future does not exist. It exists the...
I am weak in apologetics.
Ominipotent possibly relates not to All abstract matters but to real things, events and real relations, which cannot be exactly presented by their equivalents in terms of logics.
Correct me if I am wrong or contradict myself.
Knowing the future assumes the future is set down.
The future set down does not assume we do not impact the decisions by ourself.
Similarly for a human in the ''Now":
Knowing the past assumes the past is set down.
The past is set down does not assume that the decisions of the selves have...
This point of view seems to be self contradicting.
If it is true, souls have to be passive in our world and all sentences here would be generated without souls' participation.
If you look, for example, on Napoleon's life you can see his life as a whole.
If I cannot see the future, that does not mean the future does not exist.
If the future exist then it is determined, is determined by one's will too.
The existence seems for me to be two-folded: as subject and as object.
As subject a human can perceive the objective side of the reality (to the certain extent),
and also can perceive the subjective part, for example by talking to the other human.
The subject can also be not only perceiving...
IMHO, freedom of will does not contradict the determination.
Freedom (which may be quite limited) exists for a human, in his first person perspective.
But when the Universe is looked upon from the outside perspective and seen as, for example, as 4-dimensional time-space, everything may be seen...
I want to ask you, guys,
do you experience the 'Being of myself' as a first person perspective?
Do you feel being like a subject that sees and feels reality as object?