The pastor this morning mentioned that if we could see things from God's viewpoint, we would do things just the same way that He does. Does that mean He has no choice? Given His attribtues, it seems that maybe He doesn't.
Good, Loving, Just, All knowing, All powerful...
2006-11-19 07:35:47 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Actually, Cecil, WE are the fictional characters.
2006-11-19 07:45:00 · update #1
He has limited Himself through the promises He has made. He must be true to Himself and His nature... Aren't we all like that? Is there anyone you know that isn't ture to their nature? Yet we say we have free will... Then so does God... Jim
2006-11-19 08:19:30 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
If he IS Good, Loving, Just, All knowing, All powerful...etc...then he either has no free will, or is not good, or is not all-knowing, or is not all-powerful...
These attributes contradict themselves...
We all know the world we live in... There are good people and bad people... Some people could even be called evil...
Now, seeing as how the supposed god must have made the evil people, even though he knew they would become evil, and even though he is supposed to be totally benevolent, and even though he has total power enough to make them so they won't become bad, he still makes them anyway... That either means that HE has no free will, which would make him a non-entity and nonexistent, or he wants to abolish evil, and cannot; Or he can, but does not want to; Or he cannot, and does not want to.
If he wants to, but cannot, he is impotent. If he can, but does not want to, he is wicked. If he neither can, nor wants to, he is both powerless and wicked. But if (as they say) God can abolish evil, And God really wants to do it, Why is there evil in the world?
The existence of the quality of evil in people quite decisively must rule out the existence of such a deity.
2006-11-19 15:45:36 · answer #2 · answered by RED MIST! 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would have to disagree with your pastor. Even if we could see things from God's viewpoint, our original sin would still condemn us, and it wouldn't matter whether we "do the same things that He does" or not. Jesus talked about the impossibility of gaining the perfection required to attain heaven on our own merit, and even if we saw things from God's perspective, we would still sin. It's in our nature, and we are tainted to the core of our being.
2006-11-20 16:14:04 · answer #3 · answered by ccrider 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have asked this question before.
The answer I think is no. Its imposible for a being that is all knowing and eternal to chose to do something different.
the only reason we have free will is because we do not know the full result of our actions. G-d on the other hand dose.
2006-11-19 15:42:00 · answer #4 · answered by Gamla Joe 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Heb 6:18
........it is impossible for God to lie........
Isaiah 55:8-9
8 "For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways,"
declares the LORD.
9 "As the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.
2006-11-19 15:39:27 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
he is the greatest just like jesus for example. the devil tempted him but he never fell into his lies. God is too great. plus some answers are not ment to be answered in this life time.remember that
2006-11-19 15:39:01 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sometimes I chill at the intellect of man.
2006-11-19 15:59:03 · answer #7 · answered by butch 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, of course not, he is bound by the script like any other fictional character in a story.
2006-11-19 15:38:07 · answer #8 · answered by Cecil 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, he has to answer to a higher power
2006-11-19 15:38:33 · answer #9 · answered by jackie j 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
His free will is different from ours - His is Sovereign Free Will.
2006-11-19 15:38:18 · answer #10 · answered by palaver 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋