if not explain the magic please?
2007-02-12 05:21:13 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes. That is why I do not believe in free will, because I believe that my God is omnipotent - and omniscient.
2007-02-12 05:24:05 · answer #1 · answered by The Pope 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
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!
Besides there can exist no free wills at all if God is almighty. If you had a free will, God wouldn't know what you would do tomorrow and wouldn't be omnipotent.
2007-02-12 13:26:50 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes, it would require a supernatural essence for free will to exist, because it'd require a Turing hypercomputer and only a supernatural essence could be a non-deterministic hypercomputer.
Just goes to show that free will does not truly exist because there is no omnipotent god.
2007-02-12 13:25:58 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
I've already answered this question before.... Absolutely Anything is possible when God is Omnipotent!
2007-02-12 13:31:21 · answer #4 · answered by Wanderer 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Not really. Free will only means you have a choice. An omipotent God means he knows the choice you're going to make before you make it.
2007-02-12 13:25:15 · answer #5 · answered by togashiyokuni2001 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Not with an omnipotent god, but a petulant one.
2007-02-12 13:24:50 · answer #6 · answered by bocasbeachbum 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
no free will is possible with an omnipotent and omniscient God.God lets us choose for ourselves what we want but he just KNOWS what we will choose.He does not force a decision on us.
e.g."Do you want pie or cheesecake?" I secretly know in my mind you will choose pie(if i was God).But I dont make you
2007-02-12 13:28:08 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
Just because God knows what we are going to do doesn't mean the choice is taken away from us, we still choose to do it. Like if you have children, and you tell them not to eat your cookie, then leave the room. You probably know that child well enough to know what he will do, that doesn't mean he doesn't have a choice in whether he eats the cookie or not.
2007-02-12 13:27:20 · answer #8 · answered by Mr.President 2 · 1⤊ 3⤋
When I have lunch with my dad, I know he will order sweet tea. This does not determine his free choice to order it.
2007-02-12 13:30:31 · answer #9 · answered by Aspurtaime Dog Sneeze 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
God is all powerful. He created us, He can interfere, but He has free will, something He bestowed upon us as well, and He chooses to allow us to choose our own path.
2007-02-12 13:29:59 · answer #10 · answered by micheletmoore 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋