Do you think that that is able to be changed?
2007-02-17 06:04:02 · 27 answers · asked by Silva 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
God exists outside the notion of time. God is timeless, in that he sees the passage of temporal time as you or I see a range of mountains far in the distance. At this distance the range of mountains seems to be one continuous line, yet as we get closer we see then mountains separated by miles and miles. God sees everything in the "eternal now". Hence, time does not "pass" for God.
So God knows all that you will do. But that does not mean you don't have Free Will. If I stand atop a building and watch two cars coming around opposite corners and know that they will hit one another, just because they do indeed crash, does not mean that I caused the accident or that the drivers did not act on their own.
2007-02-17 06:13:04 · answer #1 · answered by Ask Mr. Religion 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God can chose to know or not know anything about the future, concerning the things we do, he really doesn't, a good example of this is his testing Abraham when he said to sacrifice Isaac on an alter, when Abraham raised the knife an angel of God stopped him and God said at Genesis 22:12; "for now I do know that you are God-fearing in that you have not withheld your son, your only one, from me." If God knew in advance that Abraham would surely do it he would not have said those words. Neither is our lives preplanned for us, we do not have a destiny, as Isaiah 65:11,12 points out as it says that there is a false god of Destiny and those believing in it will then be destined to the sword.
2007-02-17 14:17:58 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. When I make a choice (like which pair of shoes to wear) I create something that did not exist before that moment, and YHVH Himself did not know what my choice was going to be. Nothing can overwhelm Him , of course, for He is able to cope with the puny choices I make in any way He wants to
2007-02-17 14:17:43 · answer #3 · answered by hasse_john 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think God definately knows...he is God! Also explains how psychics know the future, it is already planned. They say de javu is also a indication that we are subconciously reminding ourselves that our life is going as planned before we were even born. I do not think this can be changed. Everything already has a plan up untill the minute we die. We are just here to learn from it.
2007-02-17 14:11:43 · answer #4 · answered by Erica T 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes God knows what choices you will make. Will this make Him happy, all depends on your choice. God gives you free will. Will temptation over power your decision in doing right from wrong, only you will know. Remember though, what your decision is.. is solely upon you, don't blame God for a wrong decision YOU make.
2007-02-17 14:11:21 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. I believe we are here in part to prove to ourselves who we are, not to prove it to God. Hence I think in the hereafter it is we ourselves who will condemn ourselves or know we've done our best when all we've done is brought back to our memory, as well as who we've become. The future is in our hands, and it is determined by us, not by God.
Just because God knows all things does not mean he causes them. For instance, I know my sister is going to do poorly on her test(even though my parents and I have both been on her case about it constantly) because she doesn't study and she isn't one of those people who can get away with it. Does that mean we caused her to bomb her test? No. In fact, we pretty much did everything we could outside of absolute force to stop it. She thinks she can get away with it, and will be pretty disappointed when she doesn't (it happens all the time), but her bombing her test is her doing, not ours. If she studied, she could change her future and do well enough on the test.
I think to some extent this is how it is for God. He is constantly warning and telling us, but we have the agency ourselves to choose.
2007-02-17 14:24:22 · answer #6 · answered by Laurel W 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
YES!!!!
Read ps. 139.
There is a book that I got from a Christian book club yrs ago called THE NATURE OF GOD IN PLAIN LANGUAGE by David Hocking that talks about the different and awesome attrobutes of
God.
I don't know it it is still available or not. I got it back in the 80's when I first got saved. It has been a real blessing to me as a young Christian believer. :-)
Also go to www.FathersLoveLetter.com.
and I pray that you will be totally blessed by it!! :-)
2007-02-17 14:13:15 · answer #7 · answered by angelique1225 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Scripture makes it clear that God is omniscient (He knows all things). This in no way infringes on free will; in some mysterious way (it is referred to in God's Word as a mystery), God is in control and knows how everything will turn out, but man is still endowed with the ability to choose.
2007-02-17 14:22:52 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes He does! He will start changing our path the minute we ask. Even if we have made a lot of wrong choices in the past.
2007-02-17 14:11:34 · answer #9 · answered by rezany 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God saved you by his grace when you believed.....
And you can’t take credit for this; it is a gift from God. 9 Salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done, so none of us can boast about it.
For we are God’s masterpiece.
He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.
Ep 2
2007-02-17 14:25:30 · answer #10 · answered by Bobbie4u 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋