If god is...?

Question

an omnipotent being, then does he/she have free will? If yes, then what would motivate god to do, or choose anything? If no, then, is god truly omnipotent? I want to know if god has the power to choose, as we do.


11:11

how is omnipotence imposssible - interesting concept, please explain

Answer 1

Yes God has free-will, Look in the Bible about how many times God was going to destroy someone and someone spoke up for them and God let them live.

Yes He is truly Omnipotent, why would He choose to change His mind?...Because in reality He loves us all and it hurts Him to destroy what He loves so much.

Yes He does have the choice.

Answer 2

Interesting thought. Really, if God WERE to have free will, why make a planet that would have humans destroy their own world? He knew what humans would be like (is omnipotent). Why go ahead and do it? Did He have no choice actually (which means He is ONLY omnipotent - can't have free will)?

Answer 3

God being The Almighty that He is has complete freedom and authority over everything. If He wants something He just have to decree, "Be" and it is. His divine will is unlimited unlike our God-given freewill which is limited to God's will, meaning even if we want to do something but God doesn't will it, then we can never do that thing that we want to do. Say you plan to spend your vacation this year in Paris and you've planned so elaborately but if God doesn't will it, then you'll find that you're suddenly faced by pressing obstacles like getting sick, family emergency, and so forth, which in the end make you unable to go to Paris. This is an example of how God's will guide everything. We can choose, yes surely we can, but whether what we choose comes to pass, it's entirely up to God.

I hope this helps.

Peace and Love

Answer 4

God is omnipotent and does have a free will. He is motivated to have His people choose to live to please Him. God is also sovereign, meaning that He does choose and is in charge of what happens to us in our lives. He is also eternal, meaning that time does not have the same significance to Him as it does to us finite beings who are tightly bound by it. This gives Him an entirely different perspective, one that we cannot come close to understanding fully.
Please do not be swayed by the illogical answer a few above mine.

Answer 5

Omnipotence is impossible due to paradoxes.

Also, if God knows everything, he knows what he will do in the "future" (in any dimension, not necessary the time dimension). He must have known that from the very start of his own existence. Thus God's actions are predestined. God is tied by faith, he has no free will. If God has no free will God is not omnipotent. Another way to put it is that to be able to make plans and decisions one must act over time. If God stands above time he can not do that and has no free will. Indeed, if God stands above all dimensions God is dimensionless - a singularity, nothing, void!

Answer 6

The word Omnipotent is self-explanatory and has the answer to your question. Give me a break!

Answer 7

I think that he can choose but not like we can. I think God chooses not to choose like us...make sense? He gave us free will, but because of that he can't really interfere with our choices because if he did then that would mean we really don't have free will. He gave us that, that was his choice and that in the end made it so that he can't choose like the rest of us. Because of free will, we go to war, we get divorced and sometimes choose not to believe in him. If he could stop all the bad that's going on in the world I know he would but then that would interfere with our free will making it useless. He can choose, but at the same time he made it so that he can't interfere with our free will which makes it so that he can't choose for us. He's limited in the choices he can make.

Answer 8

Do you have free will?

Omnipotent... hmm you are bound to the earth?... if light was God then where does it go?

You are the creation in creation!

Answer 9

Of course. I'm sure the gods know how to choose wisely, though, which is why they are gods. What motivates them? The drive to find happiness, just like the rest of us.

Answer 10

Yes God can choose.
For instance God chose to repent:
ExodusKJV
32:8 They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
Exo 32:9 And the LORD said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:
Exo 32:10 Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great nation.
Exo 32:11 And Moses besought the LORD his God, and said, LORD, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power, and with a mighty hand?
Exo 32:12 Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people.
Exo 32:13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit it for ever.
Exo 32:14 And the LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people.
Exo 32:15 And Moses turned, and went down from the mount, and the two tables of the testimony were in his hand: the tables were written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other were they written.

This is the breaking of the tablets but the point is God did want to destroy those people but He chose not to.
I hope that might answer your question.