I understand what you are saying. God pushed over the first dominoes, so he’s responsible for everything that follows. I understand your reasoning, I just disagree.
I think there are several nuances that prevent this assertion.
This line of thought once again constrains god to our perspective of time. If a being exists outside of time, you canâ??t really construct a linear timeline of causal relationships for that being.
Iâ??ll continue my thoughts ignoring the inconsistency of assigning linear time to god for discussionâ??s sake.
Next, you are essentially asserting that an all powerful being canâ??t create something outside of himself. Could he not create an environment with a variety of physical outcomes whoâ??s path is dictated by a consciousness other than his own. At that point knowing what will happen is not the same thing as causing it. (Can he create an independent consciousness? Is a consciousness entirely dictated by physical attributes?)
Letâ??s say a programmer creates a program that generates a truly random integer between 1 and 10 and sets it to run repeatedly. Now letâ??s say that on itsâ?? 100th cycle it outputs the number 4. Did the programmer predestine the 100th cycle to be a 4? No, he only limited to 1 to 10, 4 just happened to come out the 100th time.
Now letâ??s assign premonition to the programmer. Letâ??s say he becomes psychic and learns that the 100th cycle will be 4 before it happens. Now did the programmer predestine that 4? Iâ??d say no, I donâ??t think knowledge of the event before had is the same assigns any new idea of causation.
So, Iâ??d say an all powerful being could create a consciousness he does not control and resultant actions he does not directly cause.