Did God knew everything before it happened or no?

Question

For example did God knew that OsamaBinLaden will become
a terrorist and murderer 1000 years ago?
If yes why did he let it happen?

Answer 1

The way I had eternal time explained to me is that it is not linear like you are thinking.

Everything has already happened in God's time....past, present and future, He is already there.

Why does He let some things happen, I dont know, the bible tells me that his ways are so far above my ways and his thought so far from mine that I should not try to figure it our or my head will blow up!

So I just try to do the best I can during my time here.

Hope I helped, thanks for the Q

David

Answer 2

God knows everything. This is what the Church means when she says that God is "Omniscient". Not only does God know "everything before it happened" - but He knows what would have happened in an infinite number of variables. He knows what would have happened if Osama Bin Laden had been raised by wolves and entered a monastery and became a Catholic priest and then Pope Osama I - that's what omniscience means.

He is the Great I AM - the incomprehensible one.

Also....foreknowledge does not necessarily mean "fore ordained" - that is the basis of free will...

Isaiah 55:8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.

9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

Answer 3

Proverbs 16:4 "The lord has made all things for himself, even the wicked for their day of evil"

The Bible mostly is symbolic "tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil"

To make a long story short God is creating children, children to grow up and be in the same image as him. Righteousness cannot be obtained without overcoming some form of evil. The development of knowledge is based on contrast and relativity; you don't know down if you don't know up, and if you never saw people flying planes into buildings you'd never understand how good, and nobel it is that people would risk their lives to save strangers, and if no one ever saw firefighters and police officers rush those buildings to save people, you couldn't possibly fathem how evil it is that people would fly planes into the buildings in the first place.

Let me show you this: Eph 1:11 "In whom we've also obtained an inheritance being predestined according to the purpose of he who WORKS ALL THINGS after the council of his own will"

Whats that will? 1 Tim 2:4 "For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our savior WHO WILL HAVE ALL MEN TO BE SAVED AND COME UNTO THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH, for there is one mediator between God and men, he is the man Christ Jesus who gave himself as a ransom so that ALL will be testified in their due time."

And Isa 46:10 "Declaring the end from the beginning, from ancient times to the things that have not yet been done, saying my COUNCIL shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure."

Why is this world so terrible? So that we can enjoy and truly appreciate it when God brings peace to it.

Answer 4

Yes. God knows all things in advance, but doesnt stop it, because He gave us all the gift of choice, and free will, and we are being shown what happens when ppl reject God and His plan for their lives. All will know one day God is real, but by then, it will be too late for many.
God even knewyou wuold ask this question, and alllowed you to live long enough to ask it. He is a good God. HE is the only one to give life and take it, so we better know which side we are on, and not lve a lifetime of refrets. Rapture is coming soon . be ready.

Answer 5

God knows everthing and he alllows it to happen , For what reason we dont know but as far as 9/11 it was a wake up call to the USA and there has been a lot of good that came out of it ,

Answer 6

You're confusing God with an energy form.
God is the gift of life, the Forces that write
the geneitc code up to the point of water.
Species write their own code from that point
on.

God never created man in God's image.
Instead, as mankind began to bloom,
man created an image of God in man's image.

If tomorrow were truly known, life would
curl up and die.

Answer 7

yes, but He tied His own hands for the sake of free will

Why give a person free will if it will cause hurt and pain? It's for the sake of love.

Without freedom of choice there can be no love. If you force someone to love you, does that person really love you?

Love can not exist without free will. Free will can produce people like Osama Bin Laden

Answer 8

yep.

its called "omniscience" and is your predecessor's (the people who made god) greatest blunder. (imo)

1. if god knows all then he has foreknowledge of all injustices. meaning that he knows what bad things will happen (even when they happen to good people).

2. your god, with that knowledgs, does nothing.

3. bad things happen (9/11, Tsunamis, earthquakes, wars) and your god stands by. god has the power to stop, change or alter what happens.....yet he does nothing.

so we can come to a few conclusions.

1. god does not care what happens to you (therefore making the whole "god saved be from blah blah blah" untrue)

2. god WANTS those bad things to happen (making him the largest mass murderer the universe has ever seen)

3. god cannot do anything to stop them from happening (therefore stripping him of the title "god", since god can do anything)

ill let you simmer on that for a while.

Answer 9

it says in the bible that before the 2nd comming of jesus two prophets will arise and bring the hearts of the parents to their children or else he will strike the earth with plagues. Meaning to find wisdom to bring peace and quit destroying earth and resources by greed and nieve power, Puting time in correct perspective of generations and not 70 years, copeesh that looks like it can go to diffrnt ways to me.

Answer 10

God does know everything,

But he doesnt rob people of their free will, if he could then he coulndt make people do evil things so everyone would only do good things, and the point of this world would be non existent,