Does god know what you are going to do?

Question

So if it is the case why do you christians bother praying for something when god already knows what will happen.

Answer 1

Exactly. But Christians have this habit of dodging the question by saying god doesnt answer to those questions because they are beneath him and hes bigger than our brain ect.

Answer 2

In my opinion, no, God does not know every action we will take. I know this doesn't agree with a lot of my fellow Christians but God only said that he "knows us" even before we are born...I don't recall him saying that he knows what we will do. I will stand corrected if someone can show me where the Bible says that in that context. Also, it doesn't make sense to me that if God knows everything that will happen, He would have allowed Lucifer to challenge him and he would have allowed Satan to tempt Adam and Eve.

I do believe however that God's intelligence does make it very likely that he can look at what someone has done in the past and make a pretty good guess at what he or she is going to do in the future. Mankind as a whole for example. Unfortunately, nothing changes it only gets worse.

Answer 3

Of course God knows what you are going to do the same way on how he created you. Can you explain from where you get your life. You need to pray so that you will have the strength to do what is right coz it was so hard to what is right if we are not with GOD.Its the same with your parents, your parents knows what you need but they are waiting for you to ask, right if you need a money your are going to ask your parents but they perfectly know that you need it, why they don't simply give it to you. Its a sign of respect. Praying to GOD is a sign of acknowledgement and respecting to HIM. And once you pray you will have peace in your HEART.... Praying is not a joke!

Answer 4

God is all knowing so he does know what is going to happen and he created everyone so he knows you better than you know yourself and knows how you will act in a given circumstance. Therefore, he knows when he creates you and places you in a certain environment that you will have certain wants and will pray for them. Then it is just a matter of if your wants fit in with his plans as to whether or not he set things into motion for you to get what it is you are asking for.

Answer 5

Yes He does. Sometimes He allows it, sometimes He doesn't.
When He doesn't you never know about it.
If we knew all the answers about God, wouldn't we be something?
I have prayed many times for many things. I didn't receive a lot of the things I asked for. The answer was no.

Answer 6

God gave us the ability to make decisions. Which one we make will depend on our conscience and upbringings. It is up to us to make the right choice. If you read the Bible it would explain that (old testament) God burned cities and sent plagues to entire populations that turned their back on Him. They were brought up to serve God, but somewhere along the line the Pagan religions looked better to them.
I am a Christian, but I have a friend that is athiest. She read the Bible from cover to cover and enjoyed what she called "the best work of fiction ever written". Who knows, one day maybe it will click with you, too.

Answer 7

It's called staging for the masses. Plus, maybe, they don't really know if their God is even on their side or maybe He has been running around with some Goddess and ignoring them for about 2000 years.

Answer 8

yes God knows the futurre as he lives outside of time. You pray to make contact with God, not to find out what will happen.

Answer 9

I don't think so, because in this case it would mean that we are just robots. We are supposed to have free will, so it just depend on us how to behave and what to get from it.

Answer 10

You mean God knows what my naswer to your question was going to be!