If God already knows the future, then God does not need to test humans. More fundamentally, why would God need to have humans at all? God could simply think of and know infinitely many species, combinations, and possibilities, along with what each would do. God would have a mechanistic interpretation of all things, like Laplace’s demon with infinite knowledge. In that case, God gains nothing from creation. God does not gain novelty from us learning anything. God could imagine a universe in which we already know everything. There would be no need to simulate anything, no need for process, no need for history.
God would make us know in an instant. In fact, if omnipresence is taken seriously, then we are already within God, or already God in that sense. If omniscience is taken seriously, then God does not need to teach itself or teach us. The question of whether we should know or should not know is not logically sound, because everything could exist at the same instant through omnipotence. There is no need for sequential learning, development, or process.
Arguments about “process-dependent goods” are invalid. Nothing is dependent if God is truly omnipotent. If something must depend on process, then God is not omnipotent. An omnipotent God would not need any reality in which process even exists. There is no need for suffering, learning, testing, development, or any gradual unfolding. Those are weak defenses and miss the point entirely.
The real point is not a moral judgment against God. The point is an attack on the very idea of an existing omnipotent God. God either does not exist or is not omnipotent. A creator may have created the universe, but that creator would not be omnipotent. The other possibility is that God created every possibility of existence and simply runs all of it for no serious reason. In that case, God is just “playing God” and should not be taken seriously. So either there is no God in the sense people usually mean, or there is only some limited creator, or an impersonal totality that is not the religious God people speak of.
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