Is God metaphysically free?

Question

Did God ever choose his character and his moral standards? Does God ever know what it is to make a choice?

Answer 1

According to answers I've received here, no. He can not choose to be unjust or contradictory - interesting, eh?

Even overlooking the ample evidence of unjust and contradictory behaviour as presented in the Bible, the idea that God cannot change his mind limits his omnipotence. And it raises the question that if he is limited in scope (or limited in freedom), who or what determined those limits?

Very important questions that nobody here will answer...

Answer 2

You asked this question before.

God exists in relationship with a changing world, yet God's character -- God's abstract essence -- is unchanging. Among other things, this means that (1) every change in the cosmos calls for a response from God; (2) that response will invariably exhibit God's unchanging character.

Further, since it is self-contradictory to assert both God's exhaustive foreknowledge of future contingencies, and the existence of beings possessed of self-determination, God will never know with certainty what the results of God's response to the action of any being will be. So unlike our "free choices," God's action is utterly decisive, rooted as it is in God's unchanging character; but this action is, like ours, effected in the face of uncertainty as to the subsequent course of events. I do not know whether you would classify such action as "metaphysically free" or not, because I have no idea what your concept of freedom is.

If you ask what the nature of God's responsive action is, I would say that it is presenting finite beings with possibilities for the maximal realization of richness of experience, given the limitations of their concrete situation.

I wonder if you're really a "free thinker," or if you're ideologically enslaved to atheism. Your questions make you sound like a smart*ss.

Answer 3

Supposedly, all things will be answered upon death. I think this is one of those questions that can only be answered there, but it certainly can be pondered here. Einstein said he wanted to know God's thoughts because the rest is obviously here to know if you can. God evidently made many choices: Adam and Eve, birth of Christ, plagues of Egypt, etc. Standards? He has one that I see: all things that are good. What you and I define as good may not be the same. Supposedly, all things will be answered upon death.

Answer 4

God is not metaphysically free because each and every believer dictates what they think he should behave like. And that's the extent of his existence, once interpreted from ink on paper.

Answer 5

For all things even though prompted of it self is connected to its essence, then wireless to the Causation -God.
Nothing is bound, its motions prompted by thoughts, prayers or action result to a later fruit, then back to God to overlook. in the presence of God there is liberty. apostles said.

Answer 6

GOD is the sources of unimaginary power.

Answer 7

If he does not, no one does.