Does God know what we are going to do before we do it? Does he know the life that we will live in the future? God gives us choices and we choose. Does he know what we are going to choose before we even choose?
2006-07-28 06:18:02 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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2006-07-28 06:47:09 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is the paradox of free will and an omniscient God.
There is an illusion of choice, but God already knows what we're going to choose. If God put a Twix and a Milky Way on a table and said I could only have one, it doesn't matter which one I take because God put those two there on purpose because he knows I like Twix better. So the Milky Way doesn't even have to be there, i.e. the CHOICE doesn't have to be there.
diamond_doll: So why don't you offer something different than candy or vegetables? The two options are an illusion if you know which one is going to be chosen.
Guy Above Me: That is a cop out. To say that God has all-encompassing powers but he doesn't use them all the time?
2006-07-28 06:23:23 · answer #2 · answered by craftman 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Think of it like knowing ahead who is going to win a football game - say you heard the score on ESPN before you TIVO'd the game. You may know which team won, but you don't know how they went about winning.
God's intervention in our lives is probably much the same way - noone can know for sure because noone is God. But I believe that God may know the end result of where our lives are headed, but I don't think he plans down to the details of how we get there.
We are humans of free will and therefore not robots. We choose our own paths and perhaps even occasionally our own destiny.
So I say yes the end results are set but the paths to getting there are defined by the decisions, bad or good, that we make.
2006-07-28 06:51:49 · answer #3 · answered by degendave99 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, God knows everything that has happened and will happen. He gives humans free will to choose what they will do, but God knows the choice that will be made.
2006-07-28 06:22:42 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are taught in church and Sunday School that this is so. Jesus knew Judas' thoughts, and Peters, and told them both before he was crucified. So I think God knows which way we are going to choose. I hope I will always make the right choice, but then again, it is up to me, not God to make the choice,
2006-07-28 06:23:29 · answer #5 · answered by stullerrl 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God knows, but doesnt interfere.
Knowing and planning, two diffrent things. You can know whats going to happen, what a child would choose when offered candy or veggies for example, but they still get the choice.
2006-07-28 06:22:39 · answer #6 · answered by sweetie_baby 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes He does. In fact, God knew everything you would ever think, do or say before you were even born. This also applies to every single person who has ever lived or ever will live. Nothing is a surprise to God!
2006-07-28 06:22:51 · answer #7 · answered by christian_lady_2001 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God could know, but he chooses not to know until we've gone ahead and made our choices.
Its like going on vacation.
You could open the weather channel and find out the weather in the area where you're going and what it will be like 5 days from now.
Or you could just go and find out as it happens.
Sometimes God chooses not to exercise powers he has.
2006-07-28 06:23:03 · answer #8 · answered by Uncle Thesis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God knew right from the start what all of our lives would be. However, He does give us free will and does not interfere with our choices. He just already knows what they will be.
2006-07-28 06:26:46 · answer #9 · answered by lil_lemon_honey 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope, does not make logical sense for God to plot our lives. If that have been the case Adam and Eve's life could have been deliberate. possibly through fact of this human beings think of that devil became created evil. no longer that he became himself into devil the devil. no longer in basic terms can we choose for our very own direction. that's counseled by Jesus Christ himself, which direction or highway we would desire to continuously be on. that ought to be the narrow, cramped highway, few are on it. Matthew 7:13, 14 God is love. He does not want absolutely everyone to be destroyed. he's often on our section. John 3:sixteen
2016-10-01 04:44:02 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe that our choices effect our future. Our lives aren't planned out in advance, I think they're planned out by us as we live and make choices. Something to do today could result in something that happens a few years from now.
2006-07-28 06:21:49 · answer #11 · answered by Lauren 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋