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It seems, then, that the denial of omniscience either vanishes<br />

or reduces to a denial of omnipotence and therefore stands refuted<br />

with finitism.<br />

A serous logical objection likewise confronts nescientism.<br />

For if God is conditioned by a future that is not known by Him,<br />

then God must be conceived as subject to temporal limitations:<br />

that is, He must be conceived as subject to temporal limitations:<br />

that is, He must be conceived as passing through a succession<br />

of moments, since He is limited by a future that does not yet exist<br />

even for Him. But we have already shown that the absolutely<br />

necessary being must be transtemporal, both because on<br />

any other supposition He would not be the absolutely necessary<br />

being, and because a time <strong>com</strong>posed of an infinite succession of<br />

moments is logically absurd. Consequently, the denial of the<br />

divine omniscience is untenable because it implies that time is a<br />

form of god’s experience.<br />

I therefore conclude that the denial of God’s omniscience<br />

does not yield a solution to the problem of evil. And not only<br />

so: but I further assert that no solution is possible through any<br />

alteration of the concept of God in the various ways suggested.<br />

Second Set of Solutions: by Alteration of the Concept of Evil<br />

Illusionism: the denial of evil’s existence.---As naturalism<br />

attempted to solve the problem of evil by denying the reality of<br />

God, illusionism makes its solution by denying the reality of<br />

evil. If evil is merely an illusion or an appearance, then again<br />

there is no problem of evil at all. That which does not exist can<br />

scarcely constitute a problem: and thus the whole situation vanishes<br />

in thin air, just as a mirage on the road vanishes when it is<br />

approached.<br />

This solution is very ancient. It is imbedded in the Vedanta<br />

philosophy of Hinduism (Footnote 89: Cf. Sri Aurobindo

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