Does God always give organisms free will with the expectation that they'll never use it?

Answer 1

Hm.... yes, that's precisely what happens if this God exists. We have "free will" that we never put into practice since every single thing we do every moment of our lives is EXACTLY what God knows we're going to do...... so how could we do ANYTHING but what God knows we'll do?

Answer 2

it depends on the organism, but the nature of something knowing exactly what will happen is like you knowing your birthday: you won't really think about it ever and therefore that information isn't exactly accessible by anyone, despite it being known. in this sense there is random will/circumstance ability to life, as well as an ability to understand true freedom through what can be accessed by the same means as it is stored-- such as a psychic knowing the nature of how your life will procede. we'll always use free will, and the more evolved the being, the more free will is used which is basically just saying that a conscious decision is more of a decision than a subconcious effect.

Answer 3

The problem here is that God knows everything that has happened and everything that will happen. Its knowledge cannot be wrong. There is not a single event that it has not foresaw. Given that it created the Universe the way it did, do we have free will? Consider that when God made the Universe it could see every possible result of what it was doing. Which means: it could not create something without knowing what the results would be, and without knowing how it would be affected (and effect) the things around it. Free will and god can not go together. Nothing can have free will becouse acording to the christian bible god is all knowing. To deny this is to deny the teachings of the christian "faith".

Answer 4

first of all, God only gave human beings a free will, not plants, animals, bugs, fish, birds.... Only mankind.

second, we are always using our free will. If you don't use it, then you must be already dead. Every day you wake up and get out of bed and go about your day. You are using your free will at to what time you will wake up, if you will take a shower before or after you eat breakfast, if you will getto work on time, if you will drive at the speed limit or speed, if you will take lunch break or work through lunch, if you will swear at anyone at work, if you will wish bad thoughts about someone at work or of someone that you read about in the newspaper, etc, etc, etc, See, every day you are using your free will. It even helps you in making decisions as to obeying the laws of the road, rules at work, house rules, etc.

Answer 5

Free will is for the human race not all organisms. Funny thing is that if you take man out of the ecosystem all is well and balanced. Put man in with his free will and you get pollution, wars, pestilence etc. Who says we don't exercise our free will daily?

Answer 6

No, he has to expect that they'll use it. He sure gave my dog free will since he chooses to use the carpet as his bathroom whenever he feels like it.

Answer 7

This has always bewildered me. God tells you that you have free will, but if you make a choice He doesn't like, you'll burn in Hell. "Do what I want you to do or you'll burn in Hell" isn't free will, it's a threat wrapped around an ultimatum.

Answer 8

Yes and that's an answer. Hey Dude's White Russsian, there Guy!! How ya been? What was the ques............Yes, God expects a lot, huh?? @8-) Cheers!!

Answer 9

mostly everything you do is done out of free will- its hard to comprehend how G-d can know what we're gonna do but that we still have free will but mayb thisll help- its like if a mother gives her child a choice between candy, which she knows her child looooovs, and fruit- the kid has a choice rite? but the mom still knows what hes gonna pik.

Answer 10

God expects us to use it rightly.

The problem comes because we neither do this nor are we willing to.

Romans 7:14-25
14 For we know that the Law is spiritual, but I am of flesh, sold into bondage to sin.
15 For what I am doing, I do not understand; for I am not practicing what I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate.
16 But if I do the very thing I do not want to do, I agree with the Law, confessing that the Law is good.
17 So now, no longer am I the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me.
18 For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh; for the willing is present in me, but the doing of the good is not.
19 For the good that I want, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want.
20 But if I am doing the very thing I do not want, I am no longer the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me.
21 I find then the principle that evil is present in me, the one who wants to do good.
22 For I joyfully concur with the law of God in the inner man,
23 but I see a different law in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin which is in my members.
24 Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from the body of this death?
25 Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, on the one hand I myself with my mind am serving the law of God, but on the other, with my flesh the law of sin.