Free will is about making choices from given options. If God knows he is going to make choice B tomorrow at 9:00 AM, then he can't choose to do choice A or C instead. He has no choice, but to choose A like the script says, just like a character in a movie can't suddenly decide to change the story already written. If he can't choose, he doesn't have free will (and isn't all powerful either). If he does have free will then he couldn't know the future ahead of time (and wouldn't be all knowing either). To be all knowing and all powerful (omnisense and omnipotent) is to be an oxymoron, or a round triangle.
2006-07-25 11:24:26 · 8 answers · asked by 自由思想家 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Whew! I'm glad I'm not in your head. God must just shake His head and grin, it's kinda cute you trying to figure Him out and all.
2006-07-25 11:31:13 · answer #1 · answered by trainer53 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your logic is faulty, because God is outside of time. To Him, everything is the present. Nothing ever slips away from Him into the past, and nothing is the future. For Him, it's still 1823 and already 2439, simultaneously. You never imagined that it prevented you from having free will just because God could see what you were doing, did you? He knows what you'll be doing in the future because He can simply watch you doing it, just as He's watching you right now in the present. The same rule applies to Himself. He chooses what he chooses, and He takes all factors into account from the beginning of time to the end of time. In that sense, the whole story is "already written", but that fact doesn't make either Him or us one bit less free. An author can write a story any way he pleases, and nobody ever thought him less free just because he doesn't go back and change it later. Why would he? Especially if the author in question is God. Perfect goodness can never debate about the ends to be achieved, and perfect wisdom can never debate about the methods best suited to achieve that end.
2006-07-25 18:47:03 · answer #2 · answered by Billy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He will make happen what he set out to make happen.
He also has changed his mind at the request of humans.
But ultimately, everything he put into motion will be completed to his satisfaction.
So in overview, God can and will do anything except what is bad.
God cannot/will not violate his standard for what his good.
2006-07-25 18:29:16 · answer #3 · answered by Tim 47 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are comparing God to His creations, none is comparable to him. You mentioned the words "tomorrow", "future" and "time". God created time and can't be affected by it. The Creator is greater than His creation. God is the one and only, eternal and absolute, without beginning or end, not limited by time, place or circumstance. We can not imagine Him, God is beyond our limited knowledge. Your question conceives God after your own pattern which is only applicable to His creatures.
2006-07-25 19:06:11 · answer #4 · answered by ward 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Quite a question, my compliments. I have always believed in God's plan, but never before considered whether or not that plan was subject to change. I must say I believe it is. It would be hard to believe that he planned the great flood at the time of creation..........
2006-07-25 18:31:11 · answer #5 · answered by Yote' 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The story of our lives are already write out there is something call the Bible code were people found historical facts int the bible so most likely it tells the fut er to
2006-07-25 18:30:52 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
your looking at God from your point of view in a physical world with its laws of space matter and time....God says of Himself He is the alpha and omega ... the beginning and the end...all things are present to Him. We are in a world where things are "fullfilled" ...He already knows all things, but yet we have free will... confusing isnt it? lol
2006-07-25 18:33:46 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yeah he knows but if in doubt ask him.
2006-07-25 18:30:42 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋