If god knows everything, does he know what we will choose with our free will?

Question

Did he know that adam and eve would committ the original sin?

In a couple of answers here I was told that I said "god knows everything". Read it again. I said "If god knows everything."

Answer 1

That's a good question, but more rhetorical, since there's no way to know. I personally question free will. All things lead to another, and everybody is a product of their inherited and environmental influences. I'm positive that the circumstances of a person's life and their genetics determine the decisions people make in every situation, everytime. As far as what God knows, every person will respond as they're "programmed" to when they believe in an all-knowing being.

Answer 2

Consider the evidence: at Genesis 1:28 God urged the couple to become fruitful and inhabit the earth and have in subjection all the animals. Would you encourage your children to undertake a massive project with a marvelous future, knowing it was doomed from the start?

At Gen 2:16, 17 he warns them what the consequences of disobedience would be. Why bother dispensing a warning that would go unheeded? Many times in history God has issued warnings, always with the idea that the individuals in question had the choice to do good. Remember Ninevah. When Jonah preached God's warning to them, they repented and were spared.

Illustration: The owner of a television can watch the news. But the fact that he can watch a certain station does not mean that he does. He must first turn on the TV and then select the station. Likewise, God has the ability to foreknow events, but the Bible shows that he makes selective and discretionary use of that ability. (Compare Genesis 18:20, 21)

Answer 3

If God predestined His own before the foundation of the world, then I would think it quite obvious that He knew Adam and Eve would sin. However, He did not CAUSE them to sin. They fell from grace on their own, and dragged all mankind along with them.

But let me put a different spin on God "knowing what we will choose". Our choices are all tainted. We don't seek God, we just don't have that ability, because of our sin nature. Who cares about free will if it's all obscured by sin anyway? What does it matter if we're all doomed from the start? Sure, God knows everything, and if we maintain that we have free will, you get the questions you're asking now, and you'll always get the same responses that contradict themselves. But if the only free will we have is not seeking Him anyway, I think your question is answered.

Answer 4

God did give you free will and he (being God and having a capacity to understand and hold more knowledge than we can comprehend while in these earthly bodies) knows the outcome of every possible decision you might make. But he allows you to make those decisions, hoping you will choose him.

He created us knowing we are a highly curious bunch. No doubt that He knew if Adam and Eve didn't commit the original sin one of their kids would. Even we can calculate odds.

Answer 5

No, he didn't and he didn't know that Satan and 1/3 of the angels would do it to. That is the problem with giving people free will, you take the chance they will chose the wrong way.
Saul the bible says was hand picked by God and he loved him.
He became in love with himself and thought anything he did was okay. He was rejected by God and later died out of God's favor and blessing. The same with Solomon the bible says God loved solomon. Then a few chapers over he hated him for having so many wives that these foreign wives corrupted him into false worship. Time only goes on way and that is forward. Until it actually happens no one knows what the future brings.
The bible says time and unforseen occurance befall us all.
They asked Jesus when the time of the end was and he said he or the angels knew. But only the father that is because he is causing the bible says to put it into their hearts to do this.
He will cause the governments it says in revelation to turn on false religion. For the deceptive practices in causeing his people to sin.

Answer 6

yes he did, God is omniscient and omnipresent, he knows what we will choose to do but he gives free will so that nothing we do can be blamed on him if we choose to do wrong. he gives us many opportunities to do the right thing and he knows how things will end when we choose the right path and when we choose the wrong path. God knew that man would eventually sin and if it had not happened with adam an eve it would have only happened through one of their descendants. but if it's just a question of whether or not God really knows what we are thinking and what we will do, then yes, he does because he knows all and sees all...

Answer 7

He did knew. Main reason why He sent His son to die for our sins.

and yes, He knew that Adam and Eve would commit the original sin, why else would He gave them the warning?

Actually free will is defined to have the freedom to choose the good and not the bad. When you do bad deeds that means you are in bondage of the devil's snare. Refer to your conscience, how do you feel after a good deed? and how do you feel after a bad deed? Reflect on this. I think most people, even Christians, have a misconception on what "free will" truly means.

Answer 8

If you are God believer, then God should know whatever you will to do. Maybe we need an illustration. Say, a decision is to be made to do something. Unless you are so sure,otherwise, some alternatives will come into your mind to do anything. God even knows every process of your thought. When you are an atheist, I don't know whether you can say you have free will. His action is by instinct.

Answer 9

Ah, the good ol' Free Will/Omnipotent dichotomy. I love it. :D

Premises:
1. God knows everything that ever happened, is happening, ever will happen.
2. God created us, while knowing everything : knowing what choices we will face, and our selections, and outcomes.
3. God pre-determines our choices by creating us while knowing what we will choose.
4. Therefore, we cannot have free will, by definition:

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Free Will:
2.Philosophy. the doctrine that the conduct of human beings expresses personal choice and is not simply determined by physical or divine forces.
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Therefore, by drawing a contradiction, one of the preceding premises has to be false. We can conclude one of the following:

a) God is not omniscient.
b) God did not create us.
c) We do not have free will.

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So, theists - which one is it?

Answer 10

First off, I'd love to say ~ I love Gandolf! I wish he was my granpa! But anyways, yes I do think God knows everything. And altho the decisions of right & wrong are our choices to make, I truly believe He knows every step, of every choice, of every moment, of every day from the miracle of our birth, to the miracle of our death.
Now, about Adam & Eve. Let's think about these two, here they are in a perfect garden, children really- only in adult form- told not to touch this one tree in this beautiful place. It would be like placing candy in front of your child and saying don't touch this candy, you can have that candy. Hmmmm, which candy is that child going to pursue? We are fickle & contradictory creatures us humans. God knows that.:o]