Doesn't being omniscient mean he knows what the choice will be?
2007-02-27 06:18:35 · 7 answers · asked by strpenta 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Randy, when you have children, let me know if, in your loving nature, you find it 'good' to punish him/her eternally.
2007-02-28 06:46:19 · update #1
Do you realize the problem this creates?
If he knows everything, he knows what you'll choose at the moment he creates you. Therefore, why create something if you are going to punish it for an act you know it will commit (specially one as silly and egotistical as not worshipping you)? Where is the all loving nature of a god who would create someone to burn in hell (because if he is omniscient, he would know).
2007-02-27 06:22:37 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are right, if we truly have free will, then God cannot know what we will choose without free will being an illusion on our part. But, if I were to decide (?) as to whether to lean toward omniscience or man's free will, I would have to give God the benefit of the doubt. So no, free will doesn't matter.
2007-02-27 11:04:28 · answer #2 · answered by ccrider 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's PRECISELY what it means. And how could you EVER "choose" to do anything other than what God already knows you will do? Really? I mean, I could take a day or a year to choose something, but in the end, I'll only be doing what God already knew I'd do, so it really wasn't possible at all for me to do anything else.
2007-02-27 06:21:19 · answer #3 · answered by ZER0 C00L ••AM••VT•• 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One party knowing your decision, and you actually making your choice are two very different things.
If you asked me to pick a color and you knew my favorite color was blue and I would choose blue....me saying blue does not detract for the choice I made.
From my point of view, I chose blue and it could have been any color I chose. Someone knowning me so well to know I would choose blue does not matter to my choice.
~ Eric Putkonen
2007-02-27 06:31:09 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is all knowing, but we are not. Free will gives us the choice to choose. Yes, He knows what the choice will be, but we still gotta choose it.
2007-02-27 06:25:58 · answer #5 · answered by AshleyW 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He knows what your choice will be, but you still made it.
So you cannot blame God, or call him unfair, when he judges us for our bad choices. We did it to ourselves.
2007-02-27 06:29:56 · answer #6 · answered by Randy G 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
And if he knows how it will all play out - why play it out?
2007-02-27 06:28:36 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋