If god already knows your outcome can you change it? If god knows the future then what is the point? You have know free will or god doesnt know the future.
2006-07-07 06:38:02 · 17 answers · asked by bw 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
God knew you were going to ask this question.
God knew I was going to answer.
God knows you will give me ten points for best answer.
Just accept it.
2006-07-07 06:41:58 · answer #1 · answered by XYZ 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes you have free will and God already knows the outcome of the choices you make.
2006-07-07 06:42:12 · answer #2 · answered by Yoda Green's Hope 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dear bw,
When God created Adam and later Eve, they had free will. They were created in the image and likeness of God. In the Garden of Eden there was no disease, carnivorous beasts, no drought; everything was very good! As Adam and Eve tended the Garden, God walked with them and communed with them. He gave the commandment that they could eat of all the trees of the Garden except the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. The Lord told them that if they ate of that tree they would surely die! At this time both Adam and Eve had free will. They loved the Lord and desired to obey Him.
When Adam and Eve ate of that forbidden fruit, they rebelled against God and died spiritually. This means that the fellowship that they once had with the Lord was broken. Now there will was contrary to God. Their sin had far reaching effects--God cursed the earth for their sin and so the wonderful environment they lived in would now be filled with diseases, carnivorous animals, and thorns/thistles. They would have to work and sweat to get food. Woman would have painful childbirth's, etc.
So do we have free will today? One can choose what he wants to eat or what he wants wear. You can choose to go to a baseball game or bowling (if you have money). But you cannot choose to be saved. You cannot choose to be a child of God! The Lord is Sovereign!! Because we are all sinners, through Adam and Eve's first sin, we are all destined to go to hell. This is called the second death. You will die physically but then you must stand before God and if your sins have not been payed for, then you will have to pay for them in hell (forever). Your only hope is the mercy of God. God has chosen some of these rebels to save. You may be one of them and then maybe your not. My advice to you is to read the Bible and pray to the Lord for mercy. May I suugest you check out this website: www.familyradio.com. You will be able to learn many things.
2006-07-07 07:33:45 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course we were created with free will. What fun would it be to be a mindless robot? God only knows the future based on what he's going to make happen. We as humans have free will to decide whose side to be on. If God knew that Adam and Eve would have sinned, why would he have created them?
2006-07-07 06:44:21 · answer #4 · answered by CHRISTINA 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is not limited by time. This is impossible for us to completely understand, since everything we have ever seen, touched, known or experienced is limited by and subject to time.
God may know our outcome, or he may choose to not know, just like he chooses to not remember the sins of those who are saved. Note though, there is a difference between knowing something and orchastrating it, or causing it. Simply by knowing, it does not eleminate free will.
For example, I know that if candy is left on our kitchen table, my young child will eat it. Just because I know this about him does not mean I caused him to eat the candy. God knows us better than we even know ourselves. He may choose to know the choices we will make, but this does not mean he causes each of these choices and this does not mean that these choices were not made of our own free will.
2006-07-07 07:36:38 · answer #5 · answered by JoeBama 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know my husband is going to leave his uniforms on the dining room table when he comes home from work. Does that mean I make it happen? Does it mean that he can't change it?
My foreknowledge is based on past experience. I could be wrong. He could change and do differently. God's foreknowledge is perfect.
The point is, knowing what someone will do, and making them do it are two different things.
If you had a time machine and could go back in history, you could know what would happen before it happened, but that doesn't alter each person's ability to make the decisions they made.
Knowing and affecting are two different matters.
2006-07-07 06:53:13 · answer #6 · answered by Contemplative Chanteuse IDK TIRH 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are mistaking free will with knowledge and wisdom. They are not the same. Free will allows you to do what you wish. God, while knowing what will happen, will simply observe your actions without judgement.
If you watch a child taking its first steps, you know most definately he/she will fall down. That is the wisdom and knowledge that you have. For the child, he/she is trying to walk out of his/her own will. The best thing you can do for the child is to observe.
Similarly the best thing for God to do is to observe you. If He interferred, where is your free will?
2006-07-07 07:07:10 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What God knows and what we know are 2 different things. We don't know the future...that's what counts. We have the ability to say yes or no to any and all of our life situations. We have all the choices.
2006-07-07 06:42:14 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You make a valid point.
We do have free will, therefore God waits to see what our choice is.
In Deutoronomy 30: 19 Moses gave Israelites a choice and it was theirs to make.
Joshua did the same thing ....Joshua 24:15.
So, apparently God waits to see our choices instead of forcing the issue.
2006-07-07 06:46:30 · answer #9 · answered by Uncle Thesis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God created the planet and each and every thing for an unknown purpose (the seven days of creation tale), that purpose which we ought to not question because of our faith. yet that a similar time we are curious and selfish human beings wanting solutions and a lot extra God can not provide us. that is declared with God there is not any previous, modern-day or destiny merely now because God lives outdoors our time barrier. yet in different information i imagine God enable us make our mistake to coach us a lesson, a lesson we from time to time do not opt to understand or have taught. particular God is all understanding yet there's a the following and now that ought to opt to be adequate of an reason for you. BTW do not diss God!!!
2016-11-01 09:23:47 · answer #10 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sometimes we ask questions and we don't even think that we are sinning. Reading the word of God gives us a lot information. The Bible is our menu.
We where born with a menu that is the Bible, like when things are done by men, they do a menu to each thing.
So when God made men, he did a menu to it.
Read the Word and stop sinning and making others to sin.
2006-07-07 06:44:45 · answer #11 · answered by Evy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋