Does God have a mind of his own?

Question

Perfection is flawless and redundant. Does God have the power of choice? Do his followers?

IF so, how?

Answer 1

well done!!!! gave yourself 10 points. too funny. and what's this obsession with God. the way you pop off. they sort of nasty ways you have and you have the audacity!!!! unbelievable. lol. hypocrite!!!! lol honestly, you don't go to church do you. if you do, you're not setting a good example. aren't you supposed to try and save souls??? help, not run around being rude and nasty on other peoples sites. how are you going to explain that one. you need to let go of your arrogance first. pride and arrogance. but still.................................... TOO FUNNY!!!!

Answer 2

Of course He does! Yes perfection is flawless and it would become boring.
God has the ultimate power of choices. And yes followers of God or just human being have the power of choice.
It is how we are made.
This choice is the foundation for the Christian faith. This choice is the reason for our needing a Savior from our choices.
God choose to make us. He was lonely and in need of companionship, let us say He needed a new project okay?
He made the world, which is not perfect by any means, He also made the foliage and the animals, birds, insects, bacteria, and the water. He then sealed it with a thick layer of sealant ( ozone layer) to keep all of these things inside and what was in space outside. He designed our world to work self sufficently. He made a terrarium.
He gave us control of this terrarium like we hire gardeners to keep our gardens and yards neat and clean.

He gave us knowledge and the ability to tend to His terrarium and He also knew that we were naive and we would take this curiosity He had given to us and do what we were told not to do. Then it was us who introduced into this terrarium the death of perfection. okay?
It is all a part of the plan.God knew we would not follow the rules when we were left alone to decide what to do. If you are told not to do something, the natural instinct is to say why? and if we do not get a satifactory answer to the why, we will do what we were told not to do just to see what will happen. We do not heed warning very well. So then we have created a problem that needs fixing. So we set about trying to patch up perfection.
We are this way. He knows it. He is following a plan he has set in motion for a reason only He knows. He is taking back to perfection, those who will admit to Him they are imperfect and do things wrong. They promise Him they will do their best to follow His plan of perfection.
He gives 10 rules to follow. Everyone of those rules are not anything but to keep us from causing ourselves problems. And they are not really hard to follow if you when you are small are taught to have self-respect and respect of the world and people in it.
But we are lazy at times and it does not get taught and boom you have a section of the people who do not have any idea what to do with anything in the way that God has said is right.
and it goes down hill from that point to get us to this point we are at that has to ask questions like this one.

Answer 3

I think that such questions beg for large and general answers because in order to find out aspects of God like if God has a mind or if God is separate from the Universe or a part of it or so much more minute questions one must first define God. That is quite a task and your question cannot possibly be answered until we first answer "What is God?". That question is likely to have as many different answers as there are people, even people who don't believe in God and would describe God as a figment of our imagination. I personally think that even if God is a part of our imagination God is, because even an imaginary thing exists. personally I see God as something that is within absolutely EVERYTHING...the good, the bad, the stinky, the beautiful, trees, rocks, birds, cars, diapers, sand, fish, a burrito...God is in all of that and everything else. With God and the divine existing in so much then it is important to give EVERYTHING respect. Sadly such thought is relatively left to the philosophers and rarely exists in true action and daily existence. Jiddu Krishnamurti writes beautifully on the subject...I can hardly do it justice in comparison.

Answer 4

If we assume that for something to be all loving, it must have a mind, then yes God has a mind (if we assume god is all loving).

But does god have choice? That's a trickier issue. Think of it this way: God is omnipotent and omniscient. So, god knows everything. But that would mean god knows himself; he knows exactly what he's going to do. And he has to do it, otherwise he would have known something incorrectly, thus making him not omniscient. Of course, that would sugguest that he's not omnipotent! That means that god can't be fully omnipotent and omniscient. The arguement can be made two ways: He's omnipotent but only primarily omniscient (as in, he knows everything except about himself), or he's omniscient (and knows everything) but not omnipotent (meaning that he can be the catalyst that decides everything, but he doesn't have any choice because he already knows how it turns out).

In general, it's simplest to assume that neither omnipotence nor omniscience is true. When we do this, we can come to a realization of god as being limited, and therefore able to fundamentally have a consciousness. Perhaps god is not as limited as man, and perhaps his limitations are fundamentally irrelevant in nature, but by denying his omniscience and omnipotence, we inheritly overcome the glaringly obvious logical failures of god.

Edit: I think it's simplest to just assume that omnipotence and omniscience are buzzwords, and god should be defined differently entirely. Afterall, if an entity were omnipotent, it could make itself omniscient, and we've already seen that it can't be omnipotent and omniscient simultaneously.

Answer 5

The real question here, is, do you have a mind of your own? God gives choice to his followers, and unlike his followers, He knows the choices He will present to his followers a year from now.

Answer 6

I see where your question is heading. If God has a mind of his own can't we. Well, let me ask you this question? In what way are you equal to the one who created you?
God does have a mind of his own but he expects those who believe in him to rely on Him for direction so we make the right choices because we are not God, He is.

Answer 7

I am a Christian but yet I am also human assuming you are also how am I any different than you? Of course I have a choice. Now I am mortal and God is a higher spiritual being who created me with free will to love or not love him so it kinda seems as if he also had a choice

Answer 8

yes He does. if He didn't then he wouldn't be God. the all-knowing and all-wise creator of life on earth and in the universe. As to his followers, they do as well. it is believed God didn't give them the power to choose. because the devil in the form of a snake introduced the CHOICE to eat fruit from the tree of knowledge from which they were forbidden. then Adam and Eve had a realization of what they were and what they were doing. they now had the power to choose but they were thrown out of paradise.

this is just what i've been taught in catholic school. it is not my belief. my belief is that i believe in God and he is an all-powerful being. i believe he created the universe and that he put us on this earth. i don't question his existence and i don't question my power of choice. i believe he influences our choices through outside variables and his angels on earth to protect and guide us.

i'm only 16 but i am strong in my faith. good luck to finding your answer, if thats the one you want to hear anyway.

Answer 9

Yes and the universe was His idea

The perfect idea of God, the image of God is Jesus according to Jonathan Edwards

Answer 10

God is Sovereign over his creation; his creatures act within the confines of his will. The mystery is that humans are responsible for the choices they make in this life.

Answer 11

Of course he does. Perfection does not require complete redundancy. That is flawed logic. For each of us may be perfect for different purposes.