Is free will God's biggest mistake?

Question

Or is creation God's biggest mistake?

Thanks to free will now we can all burn in hell, especially since no one can be like God, and only God is without sin.

Thanks to creation now we can all taste hell on Earth.

Answer 1

CAlling God a liar and saying Satan is stronger than God now? Would you rather have been a robot? Who says nobody can be perfect? You can choose it, can't you? You have a choice in the matter or are you saying you are just a puppet on Satans string? You don't have to be a puppet unless you choose to be and you do not have to keep on sinning if you do not choose to be either. God has promised that if you just go to Him and are sincere, you can live a perfect life if you so CHOOSE!!!

Answer 2

That is not an excuse to commit sin.

You have free will to see your character and strength

Sin is easy. It is very very difficult to be a good person.

So free will tells how much of a good character you built. Not vice versa.

Just because you have free will does not mean you go around committing sin.

Look at what GOD has created. How can you ever be like GOD?

We can only destroy. If we knew how to create, dont you think we would even try to put GOD down with our creations?

Yeah. The nuclear bomb. What a creation. You can kill life in millions at the click of a switch.

Answer 3

Free will does not exist, and neither do gods.

You cannot choose what to think before you think it. Thoughts come into your mind unbidden, and you cannot choose what your next thought is going to be, because you would have to already be thinking of it in order to choose to think it, and that leads to an infinite regression.

Undoubtedly there is the influence of cause and effect - something happens to you, and you then think about it - and perhaps there is also a completely random element, but the same could be said of the weather, and we don't say that the weather therefore has free will.

So, if we cannot choose what to think, then we cannot choose what to do either, since our actions are (generally) guided by our thoughts (and any action that is *not* guided by our thoughts wouldn't be characterised as 'will' of any sort anyway).

Hence, as far as I can tell, free will does not exist.

Everyone knows that gods don't really exist.

Answer 4

NO. With out free will we wouldn't be human. Yes bad things happen created by sick and evil people, but because of Free Will we can make choices to help those who have been hurt. That creates hope for those who have been affected by evil.

That is why evil fails, in the end man kind will always rise above evil.

I don't believe in eternal hell, I believe "Hell" is here on earth, I believe we create our own hell. I believe thru free will we chose to live in Hell, or we choose "and it only takes a moment thoughts" to not live in hell. We choose to let go, and surrender things that get in our way to happiness and peace.

Answer 5

Mankind using their Free-Will for the Wrong Purpose's is Creation's biggest Mistaker.
GOD didn't want Robot's, after all, HE already had Angel's (Angelic Servant's with a Limited Free-Will).
There is just Something about a Free-Will.
Something bout' it.
Ditto...............

Answer 6

Both creation and free are perfect. It is our personal choice to sin. Even though we do sin, we are still offered the opportunity to spend eternity in Heaven with God, according to His Word. We must believe and ask for His forgiveness.

Think about your statements: because of free will, we can all burn in hell - He loved us so much that he sent his own Son to take our place and die on the cross so we can experience salvation. Because of creation, we have the opportunity to experience either heaven or hell. Thanks Be to God for that opportunity!

Answer 7

i don't think of God makes errors. yet besides, you're reasoning interior the confines of a risky paradigm. unfastened will exists, and that's all that concerns. Cells have unfastened will, so squirrels, beetles, shrimp, and so on. lots of the negativity and destruction you're suggesting would not come from unfastened will, yet from the human situation. We created the human situation. We create it superb suited now.

Answer 8

Aw... don't worry about free will... if there is a god, and it is 'omniscient', you haven't got free will.

'Omniscience' is logically incompatible with 'free will'. 'Omniscience', all by itself, is sufficient to put the lid on 'free will'; omnipresence and omnipotence are irrelevant. It is not necessary for god to intervene in order to negate 'free will' as a possibility. Omniscience negates free will all by itself.

If we really DO have 'free will', then an omniscient god is logically excluded. The logical fallacy lies in the premise that if god is omniscient, all outcomes are already known to god... everything that you think, decide and do... and everything that you WILL think, decide, and do.

For an omniscient being, all of existence over all of time is laid out as a tapestry before him... past, present and future, down to the smallest detail of material, of thought and of deed, and all is constantly in his awareness. There is no past, present and future from that perspective... there is only an eternal 'now'.

If that is the case, since god already knows everything that will happen, then everything is already decided... and as we go along through life, we are merely doing what has already been seen by god. Since god knows and sees everything that will happen, NOTHING that we think or do can be contrary to what god already sees and knows. We might THINK we have free will... but since we are merely acting out what god already sees and knows, this can be no more than an ILLUSION of free will.

Put another way, if you come to a point of decision, you have no choice but to take the path that god already knows you will take... there is no other option. That works all the way down the path of cause-and-effect... and, along the way, it even casts doubt on the validity of the concept of cause and effect. I don't want to get into that, though... it makes my hair hurt.

So, imagine that since before time began, since before the universe was created, god has 'known' that you would come to a point of decision at some spatial and temporal coordinate, and that faced with the possible paths A and B, you would take path A.

Now, during the course of your life, you arrive at that spatial and temporal coordinate where this choice exists. You evaluate the potential outcomes, and you have it in your head that you have 'free will', and thus, you are free to choose between path A and path B. However, since god is 'omniscient', and god 'knows' that you will take path 'A', then path B IS NOT an option... it IS NOT a matter of choice... it is a 'NECESSITY'. OF NECESSITY, you WILL take path A. Not 'must'... not 'can'... WILL take path A. You DO NOT have a choice. Path B is NOT an option... it is not even a POSSIBILITY. The best that you can achieve is the ILLUSION that you are free to choose.

So, either god is omniscient OR we have free will. It is QUITE IMPOSSIBLE for BOTH of these conditions to coexist.

The only way out of this logical dilemma is to limit god's power; i.e., start taking away things that god can see and know, until we get to a point where free will BECOMES a possibility. But when we start doing that, then he ceases to be omniscient... and thus ceases to be a 'supreme being'.

So... free will is an impossibility concomitant with an omniscient diety. The following sums up the possibilities:

1. There is no omniscient diety... therefore, the whole argument is stupid and irrelevant.

2. IF we possess 'free will' AND god exists, THEN, of necessity, it is IMPOSSIBLE that god is omniscient. (This does not preclude the notion of 'god'... it just means that he can't be as 'supreme' as one might think he is... or wish him to be.) You are (logically) obliged to acknowledge that god CAN NOT BE all knowing... and since omniscience is one of the things that makes god 'all powerful', then this means that god CAN NOT BE omnipotent, either.

3. IF god exists AND god is omniscient THEN, OF NECESSITY, it is IMPOSSIBLE that that we have free will, and you are (metaphorically speaking) nothing more than a piece on god's eternal game board; and, thus, "... man is not responsible for his actions."

Personally, I vote for number 1. You can pick any one you want... but YOU MUST PICK ONE, because there are NO OTHER possible outcomes... NO OTHER logically valid choices.

It is unfortunate (for the Abrahamic death cults of desert monotheism) that the concepts of god were solidified as dogma a few thousand years before the philosophical discipline of 'logic' was dreamed up by the Greeks. Those that concocted the religion did not have access to the intellectual tools that would have enabled them to realize that they had 'screwed the pooch' with respect to assigning god's impossible attributes. It wasn't until the 4th century that this logical impossibility garnered serious attention, and churchmen got their theological 'dancin' shoes' on, trying to weasel their way out of the logical dilemma.

They did not succeed, and this issue continues to be debated even 'til this day. This logical dilemma (and the resulting 'cognitive dissonance') was a key element in some of the various 'heresies' that were spawned in the early days of Christianity.

However, the simple observation that these impossible beliefs still exist shows that this does not seem to have been a very big hindrance, under the simple expediency that "There is no problem so big that we cannot ignore it, until it will go away." Too bad for them, though... it DOESN'T go away.

Corporate religion is helped along by the fact that most 'believers' do not employ logic or critical thinking skills; heck... that's why they're believers in the first place. If they employed logic and critical thinking, they WOULD NOT BE believers. So, even though these concepts create a logical impossibility, it does not seem to present a significant problem for them.

Answer 9

God does not make mistakes. He meant for us to skrew up. He gave us free will so that we can decide to serve Him or not to serve Him. He wants us to choose either our will, which always leads to disaster, or choose His will, which leads to eventual perfection. yes, thanks to our free will alot of people are going to hell, but we do not have to. we can choose salvation from that fate. that is why God gave us free will. keep asking questions about God, you WILL receive the answers that you NEED.

Answer 10

Nothing God did was a mistake, everything has a reason and a purpose. When you all think of the end of the world, I think of something else, something bigger than what we can comprehend.