How can God judge us if.......................................................................................

Question

Each action or choice we make either has a reason behind it, or doesn't. Every action can be broken down into its components until you have base actions which form the root cause of that action. The alternative to this logic is that some things have no reason or cause. Either way, either everything is caused, or some things are caused and others are uncaused. Thus, actions which we call "morally-wrong" from a God's-eye view, when taken within the context of their causes, were either inevitable or random, and judgement is irrational.

glasshouse posts,

"it is the motivation behind the actions that is judged. how can GOD judge us, we have free will."

However, our motivations also are either caused or uncaused, and the free-will argument faces the same problem.

Answer 1

I will use an example to answer your question.
You may agree with me, if you did witness the birth of one of your children, that the emotion and happiness of seeing your child being born into this physical world is wonderful and indescribable.
But happiness at that moment is also mixed with a sense of apprehension. The pediatrician takes your child and examines carefully every inch of his physical body. He checks his hands, his feet, his fingers, his eyes, his nose, his ears, and he even checks some of his reflexes right away to see if he has all the elements he needs to have a normal and happy life on earth.
What the pediatrician does is to check whether in the previous stage of his development, in the womb, the child did effectively develop all the tools that he needed to live a normal life on earth and to progress without handicaps.
In this physical world we have the opportunity to develop the tools that we need for progress in the spiritual worlds where our progress continues. But unlike the womb world where the development of our physical body was not dependent on us, in this physical world we have the free will to choose whether we want or not to develop our moral virtues.
So a "pediatrician" will check us again in the spiritual worlds in which we will be born, to make sure that we are healthy and that we have developed the moral virtues that we need for further progress.
This is how I understand God judging us. Not in the sense of a court of justice.

Answer 2

You are born with free will, but the Bible also teaches that God's laws are written on your heart. If everyone inherently knows these laws, then your free will would be breaking them by doing something you know you shouldn't. Children think they are getting away with some things, as parents, it can be so obvious who did what and we can judge by their age level how harsh the punishment should be. Example: My 6 year old goes in her closet and uses a crayon to write the letters of the alphabet. When I discover it, I call my 3 and 6 year old in the room asking who did it. Naturally, I want my 6 year old to fess up, because I know she did it, because my 3 year old doesn't even know the letters of the alphabet. When she doesn't, I have to punish her, but at the same time, I know she is just a child and I love her, and can't be too harsh. Maybe our God is the same way. You can love the sinner, but hate the sin. Sin cannot go unpunished, or the world would be even worse than it already is. When you decide what's right or wrong, basically, you have made yourself God, because you don't answer to anyone. Your will be done, not Gods is why there is a hell.

Answer 3

Some things are caused, others are the result of an uncaused occurence. All things material have a cause, just as an object moving a distance needs a force pushing or pulling it in that direction. So the force is the cause. But the mind itself is the result of an uncaused principle of logic stemming mostly from a sense of suffering.

Think of it like this, you as an individual being have an awareness of pain, to which your mind can be caused by this pain, to which the pain has it's own cause. But there is such a thing as your will, which is not a "thing" of itself, but your own desire, acting on the inherent necessity you impose upon yourself, to free yourself from pain.

This "inherent" will which you possess, wills yourself away from phenomenal pain towards the source of all things (the will of all wills, i.e. logic itself, Reality itself). This state is inherently free of all suffering because it precedes phenomenal existence. It is like your own logical conclusion that if you as a being suffers, there must be a state of no-suffering, which is not nothing because it is the locus (i.e. seat) of your consciousness. This is felt in the your heart, and holds the primordial seed of enlightenment. It's indestructible states is perceived through your soul's ability to "see" as light. Even though the created world was formed from this light through it's removal from the light, your soul has an "eye" that can "see" this light as pure and taintless.

God's judgment is the judgment that states that this free and taintless light is perfect and immortal, to which the state is immortal because it precedes all corporeal phenomenon.

Answer 4

ok basically (truthfully) human beings are animals and god is conscious that. the only way for God to maintain the international working and human beings residing is by ability of judging us. If we as human beings don't have an apprehension of being decide the international would be chaos, we are able to kill eachother I advise is undesirable adequate with those wars. think of if human beings did no longer have an apprehension each little thing would be loopy because of the fact human beings would be loopy. the reality that we are going to be decide is a sturdy ingredient and God created this for a reason. think of roughly it a individual who desires to dedicate suicide will think of it over very thoroughly in the past attempting something for the phobia of what's next, hell or heaven?

Answer 5

If you break the law, a judge will judge you. The same applies to God, only the supposed law you break is God's law which is codified in whatever faith you believe in. Your free will was exercised when you chose to break the law.

If you believe in a stream of events as causation, then the logical conclusion is that God is not necessary, therefore no God's law to break and no God to judge. You are own your own with only Nature to answer to. Her judgements are final and usually mean death to transgressors.

Answer 6

We have free will because God gave us free will in the first place. And we always have a choice of how we will react to something. We are responsible for our own actions & need to take responsibility for the consequences. God gave us a free will because He didn't want us to love Him like mindless robots. He gave us a choice in everything we do.

Answer 7

To think of this quite literally, we have no free will. We are slaves to our DNA structure--our nature--and our experiences. Everything we do, no matter how small, relates to either of those, so we can't help it. In fact, if you knew how every molecule would fire off at one second, you could easily predict the entire future (barring the possibility of a butterfly effect from quantum physics). So even if your theoretical God did exist, yes, it would be quite unfair if he judged you.

Answer 8

Your question all boils down to all what early Greek Philosophers, as well as Modern day Philosophers have been contending regarding the nature of man. That man is the highest of all creations, man, is the measure of all things. It only proves to say that man is by nature good ,we were all born innocent but the totality of our crimes and vices are caused externally,which we embraced responsibly as our own faults. Simple as this.

Answer 9

There is no judgement from God..only judgement from ourselves. Humans can be very judgemental, especially to themselves and unless they are wanting to break the pattern that judgement turns outward and then they start getting judged by others. It is a nasty circle and only unconditional love can set us free.

Answer 10

it is the motivation behind the actions that is judged. how can GOD judge us, we have free will.