Philosophy

That it is also the proper way to view the future is less obvious, due in part, perhaps, to our vastly greater ignorance of what the future holds." He then goes into an explanation of the fact that fatalism provides somewhat of a consolation to those who choose to embrace the theory. It relieves the temptation to feel a sense of control over one's own actions and the events that then follow or "to view things in terms of human wickedness and moral responsibility." Taylor ends this section with the affirmation that fatalism, "once firmly grasped, yields a sublime acceptance of all that life and nature offer, whether to oneself or one's fellows; and although it thereby reduces one's pride, it simultaneously enhances the feelings, opens the heart, and expands the understanding.".
             The simplest way to sum up the section on Divine Omniscience is this: God is all knowing. God knows all truths, and then in turn knows all falsehoods as they are a truth in question. On the occasion, God may entrust his truths to a person or persons who would then be a prophet for God; from whose proclamations become true with the occurrence of the foretold events. "Of course it is not surprising that they should [occur], on the supposition we are making; namely, that the fore-knowledge of these things come from God, who is omniscient.".
             The Story of Osmo is a simple illustration or story if you will that describes the endless possibilities of fatalism. The whole idea is based on a book written by a scribe who was given a set of facts, about a man named Osmo, from God and then wrote them down. Years later, Osmo found the story of him on a bookshelf at a library and began to read. It listed in great detail the entire set of events of his life and continued on to his death at a young age of 29. Thinking he could outwit fate in the area of his death, he tried to hijack the plane he was on when the pilot announced they were being re-routed to the airfield where the book said he would die in a plane crash.