A Random Act

I just considered Random from a timeless and omniscient perspective. Maintaining omniscience or timelessness through this juncture is impossible, as a Random act must be truly unpredictable. If one rolls a die where the outcome is truly unknown, then using a timeless perspective to trace either side of the event- past and future- would create an asymptote of time. Even having the event itself exist would force a temporal paradox because, if all is known a moment before the event, including all possible inputs, how could the event itself be unknown? An additional issue is that all must be "known" in Creation, even if not consciously, for the universe operates via cause and effect. I have called this "knowing" perspective "The Architect," in part to reach across the line to those who do not believe in God, but also because the domain feels different, though this issue remains the same in each domain. Still, there is a limit to expanding domains, so even if one applies quantum unknowability to our universe, one would eventually reach a "full" domain where nothing is outside the domain, I believe the domain of God, Creation.

The only way that I can conceive of these issues being resolved is if there is an aspect to God that is naive to this one specific outcome. This may tie in with the title change for God after day 7, when God rested and The Lord God began interacting with mankind. If a naive (to this event, at a minimum) perspective can be maintained, the temporal paradox could be sidestepped, though how this would be done is still a logical conundrum for me. This solution would satisfy this verse, however:

Matthew 5:18
"For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished."

This is because the event itself would potentially unravel everything, even if the immediate aftereffect is to restitch everything again, thus resulting in little of any net change (there need not be a "bet" attached to the die roll, its outcome must only be unknown). It would not be impossible to be omniscient just before and outside this event and just after this event, and such an event might establish the definitions of "before" and "after" for such an initially perspective. This feels like an amazing revelation, albeit incomplete for the moment.

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