Omnipotent: knows all things.
Not omnipotent: does not know all things.
God is both omnipotent & not omnipotent?!?!?!?!?
2006-10-02 09:30:51 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Show me you have free will and I will believe in a deity.
2006-10-02 09:44:16 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
God is omnipotent. He gave us free will because the decision to follow God has to be made by each individual. God already knows who will and who won't accept Him into their lives. The ability to choose separates those of us who believe(who have faith, the faithful) from those who do not(non- or unbelievers, atheists, etc.). I'm guessing that you believe in God, or you wouldn't have asked this question, so read your bible. Whether you are a true believer or not, it may be the best book ever written. Great story, lots of characters, and epic scale, never mind that it may all be true, make it a great book.
2006-10-02 16:46:49 · answer #2 · answered by michaelsmaniacal 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Omnipotent = All powerful
Omniscient = All knowing
If I have seen the future one hour from now and know what you will do, did you just lose your free will?
I don't believe this btw, I'm an atheist.
2006-10-02 16:32:52 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
He does know what we will do with it that is why He made a plan for our salvation before He created us. Try these verses matthew 25:34 Ephesians 1:3-11 And Revelation 13:8
2006-10-02 16:42:04 · answer #4 · answered by I-o-d-tiger 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He does know what we will do with it. God is outside of time, so he sees all: past, present, and future. Because God already has seen the choices we have made does not mean that we do not have the freedom to make them.
Think of it like watching a home movie. You know that your sister is going to step on the rake and that it will break her nose when it swings up and hits her in the face. Because you know the outcome doesn't save your sister from stepping on the rake and breaking her nose.
God sees what we have done, are doing, and will do, but it doesn't affect our agency one whit.
2006-10-02 16:36:25 · answer #5 · answered by Gestalt 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Does a father not know what his child will do? Does a father not have to let his child fall, so as to learn how not to fall again?
Parents commonly watch their children do things, knowing in advance what the child's motives and actions will be. When the parent asks the child to do something and the child does it, is this the absence of free will?
If human parents can do this with their little children, how much more can our Father in heaven do this?
God Bless,
MoP
2006-10-02 16:39:38 · answer #6 · answered by ManOfPhysics 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Your head will never wrap around who God is.
But the good news is He has reserved a place in every heart so that we can know Him and we can know the stuff about Him that's going to make the difference between life and life more abundantly and eeking out a mere existence.
2006-10-02 16:38:25 · answer #7 · answered by Carol L 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hello ...In spirit or in our most divine personal space, a place of stillness and silence, like in dreaming or in a meditative state...there is no past and no future like and as we live our conscious life here on Earth.
.All is happening, or a better description is... all is being created now, by us, in the divine moment of NOW. The universe is created by God/Us so there is an illusion world where We can interact with one another and through trials, tribulations and moments of glory and have the choice to choose love, peace and happinness.
one more thing...God and all of we are ONE. ..1..
2006-10-02 16:53:34 · answer #8 · answered by awaken_now 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We are God experiencing itself through the world of the relative. There is only God all else is illusion.
If I watch a river flow into the ocean I know the ultimate destiny of the drops of water in the river, I know the outcome. I need not concern myself with the eddies and currents of the individual drops because I know the larger Truth of their destination.
2006-10-02 16:38:11 · answer #9 · answered by thewolfskoll 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
. He is omnipotent, He does give us free will and He does know what we are going to do with it. He still gives us the chance because He loves us.
2006-10-02 16:40:35 · answer #10 · answered by Grandma Susie 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You could never be more wrong. God is unchangeable. He can't be two things at once.
God knows everything. God gave us a free will so that we would not be robots. He knows exactly what we will do with our free will but that does not make us any less responsible for the decisions/choices we make.
2006-10-02 16:39:45 · answer #11 · answered by LARRY S 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋