If God knows...?

Question

If God knows if we are going to Heaven or Hell, why do we live?

Answer 1

The Bible does not teach that our individual future is somehow determined in advance or predestined by God.

It does teach that God has foretold only 2 possible destinies for man in general. God has given humans free will to choose their own destiny. He inspired the prophet Moses to tell the Israelites: "I have put life and death before you,....and you must choose life in order that you may keep alive, you and your offspring, by loving Jehovah your God, by listening to his voice and by sticking to him; for he is your life and the length of your days." (Deuteronomy 30:19,20)

At Matthew 7:13,14 Jesus said: "Go in through the narrow gate; because broad and spacious is the road leading off into destruction, and many are the ones going in through it; whereas narrow is the gate and craped the road leading off into life, and few are the ones finding it."
So there are two roads or two destinies. We make the choice. Our future depends on our own actions. If we obey God, it will mean life, if we choose not to serve him, it will mean death. (Romans 6:17)

John 17:3 tells us: "This means everlasting life, their taking in knowledge of you, the only true God and of the one whom you sent forth Jesus Christ." So what we do with our lives is what will make the end result for our life, whether we will live or die, or be counted as righteous or unrighteous. And Matthew 24:13 shows that "he that has endured to the end is the one that will be saved." So a person who does God's will needs to continue to do it right to the end to receive salvation.

2 Peter 3:9 shows that God has not already determined who will be destoryed and who will receive salvation. It says that God "does not desire any to be destroyed but desires all to attain to repentance."

Isaiah 1:18-20; 55:6,7; Ezekiel 33:14-16; Romans 2:4-8 all show that even very wicked people can repent, and become obedient to God, and make the necessary changes to gain God's favor.

So it is worth the effort to do good. Psalm 19:11 says about God's laws and orders that: "In the keeping of them there is a large reward."

Answer 2

Yes God knows what we are doing in every second.God has given us a freewill and a life guide that is the holy qur'an.Holy qur'an consist of what should be done and what should not be done by humans..God shows us the right path and the wrong path with all of its consequences.God gives us a free choice for it.If we choose the right path we will get a reward in heaven and if we choose a wrong path we will get a punishment in hell.We are created by God for making a prosperity in this world and dedi
cating our lives for God.God wants all His creatures bows to Him.
But God also created satans for tempting humans.God is wanting
to know who are the good humans and who are the bad humans.
Humans who can be tempted by satans are bad humans.They will be punished in the burning hell in the life after death.

Answer 3

I know!!! I've always wondered about that too! I guess so we don't hate God and say He didn't give us a chance if we go to hell...or maybe this has something to do with free will? Maybe our destiny IS written out, but it's not concrete and we can always change it if we wanted. Or maybe earth itself is the lowest piece of hell and God knows because evidently we're already here. I don't know- life and God are too complicated! I give up! I'm going to bed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 4

I do not believe in a deterministic God—that is, one who determines in advance the eventual fate of His children. Rather, I believe in a God who has perfect foreknowledge of the choices His children will make. He may use this foreknowledge to guide us or even to warn us, but He does not use it to preempt our agency. He allows us to become what we truly desire to become. As Elder James E. Talmage (1862–1933) of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles wrote: “[God] knows what each will do under given conditions, and sees the end from the beginning. His foreknowledge is based on intelligence and reason. He foresees the future as a state which naturally and surely will be; not as one which must be because He has arbitrarily willed that it shall be.”

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Answer 5

Our lives are a test to see whether or not we are worthy to live forever in paradise with the Lord our God, or be cast into the flames. Life here on earth is only as a single day, while life in paradise or the Lake of Fire is everlasting.

Answer 6

There are people here who can take you out of hell and put you in heaven. You would want to find them.

Answer 7

We were created to live not to die go to heaven or hell, God's purpose has not changed and he is going to fulfill it soon!

Answer 8

The idea of God being "all knowing" is an assumption of man. Nobody knows anything about God.

Answer 9

You are thinking of god in human terms. It is not possible to fathom God's plan or intentions in the form we are in. We are not separate from god, god is in all of us, as we are in god. God is not some guy who sits at a desk and has human thoughts and emotions and plans. God is beyond our capability of understanding.

Answer 10

Because we are sinners, and sin seperates us from God, and He wants us to go to Heaven. Also, He wants us to worship Him and witness to other people.