Is anyone else getting a headache from this free will bologna?

Question

So what i have observed the answer that all christians give to almost every questions is either

1.) Free Will
2.) Faith.

and i would like to capitalize on godzillas extra extra as he made a good point...

if God is all knowing....then he must have known that the world would be evil again so...why didnt he just let evil reign...(would have made the free will answer more valid) or
completley wipe out all man kind and start over???

Lol sorry BALONEY!

story guy- please dont ever leave faggoty answers like that again.

Answer 1

yeah well, you'll get a headache if you try to reconcile the mutually exclusive concepts of an all knowing Omnipotent god and free will.

if there is an invisible supreme being and that supreme being knows the future then nothing in the future can be anything different than what the supreme being knows it to be. no action could you make that you weren't destined to make because the supreme being knows in advance that you'll make it. if you could surprise the supreme being and do other than what you are destined to do the supreme being made a mistake and so is no longer supreme.

Christians want to keep their cake and eat it too. they want the ultimate security of worshiping an all knowing god that predesignates their heavenly reward but they also want to have free will wherein their all knowing god is apparently ignorant of his creations future choices. if he knows what choices his creations will make they aren't so much making choices as fulflling destiny.

Answer 2

Not only is God all-knowing, He is All-powerful!
(So why didn't he put a stop to the evil with His POWER)
Not only is He all- POWERFUL, he is OMNIPRESENT
( so he could change the past and future?? why didn't he???)

You ask these questions as if you think there some answer must be given to you.
Where does that 'demand' for an answer come from? If you had no 'free will' you wouldn't care - you'd be robots on this swirling ball of mud careless about life, death or any purpose beyond your 'programming'
Yet you clamor about- searching, probing, discovering and being frustrated by your limitations when this God you revile has none.
You don't trust Him or His plan- mainly because you don't know it or HIM, don't want to know it(or HIM) or someone drilled it (and HIM) into your brain and you absolutely refuse to believe.
It is this lack of faith, this empty vacuous swirling unknown that scares you and makes you angry. "I wanna know!" you demand; yet when the simplicity of faith is revealed, you turn violently away. "NO! not HIMMMM, not that JESUS!""Don't talk to me about FAITH""Get your GOD away from me!"
And in that decision (which you have declared in your free will)
you stay unanswered in the vortex of the unknown. For you do not Know GOD, nor are you known BY Him.
How can you know the answers He has unless you KNOW him?

Answer 3

Eventually, God will allow evil to reign under the rule of the anti-christ. However, eventually God will defeat that evil and then there will be a new earth. You can read about this in the book of Revelation found within the Bible.

Answer 4

I think He did both "let evil reign" -- with a modification, and wipe out all man & start over -- through Noah.

We are not all as evil as we could possibly be, but you give man too much credit if you say he has the capability to choose God. Way too much credit, given his sinful nature, which makes him dead, completely dead, not partially or mostly dead, in his sins. This gives validity to original sin for those who believe in innocence before the age of reason. NO ONE merits Heaven on their own, and this is one of the major divisions between the Protestant and Catholic faiths. The Arminians give us a sin nature, but with a spark of ability in "free will" which is the ability to look to God for salvation. The Calvinists take a more depressing (honest?) view of who man really is lost, no spark whatsoever, dead, God must do the saving. Arminians call Calvinist belief "robots" and Calvinists look at free will as taking God's prerogative away, glory to Man.

I'll give God the benefit of the doubt on this, but free will involves the ability to look up, and open our own eyes, and the Calvinist says no. Free will to make any decisions we want, sure, but none of those decisions leads to God without divine intervention. So I agree with you, but it adds God's Sovereignty as choice #3.

Answer 5

As I understand from Christians I know, God promised after the Noah's Ark debacle and the birth and sacrifice of his "son" that he wouldn't ever do that to mankind again.

It's my belief, however, that we only have his word through a third party on the matter. I've been saying for years that the earth is WAY worse off now than when Noah and Lot were around, so why not just shake the earth "etch-a-sketch" style and let mankind try again?

Answer 6

He never did allow EVIL to stop reigning. I mean this is obvious. Sometimes I wonder if God limited himself, that is limited his foreknowledge in order to give us free will?

Free Will is not bologna. I mean yes I do see a lot of people do use that too much.....in fact I think you are referring to my answer. But the reality is that one of the MAJOR reasons there is EVIl in the world today is because of FREE WILL.

You can not argue with that. There is EVIL because people choose to act in evil ways.

Answer 7

Why would he let evil reign if there were still some good souls about the Earth? it was the promise he made to one of them- Abraham, that kept us going. It is for the sake of the few righteous that the world will end quickly and it won't be horribly dragged out.

Answer 8

Ask him if you sincerely desire the answer to that question. You must believe in him, but it sounds like you have built a lot of ideas around what you think God is rather than actually searching him out. Its simple: You seek:You find.

Answer 9

Wow, what has happened to you in your life that makes your question sound so mean-spirited and hateful?
Telling someone they have a "faggoty" answer? That's a shame.

Free will is real, not a lunch meat, and that is why it is used to answer so many questions.

Answer 10

You win but I'll stick to what I have come to know as Gods plan in our existance is flawless and I as a Christian am happy with that.