shouldnt it be one or the other?
2007-03-16 10:13:32 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Either man has a damaged free will due to the fall of Adam, and God is entitled to his foreknowledge and predestination; or man has full capability to choose or not choose God, leaving a plan with nothing but a foggy outcome and a pleading God under man's "thumb" of free will. One leads to a human race that stands condemned before God and needs his saving grace, and the other leads to a God that is not worthy of worship since we may as well be worshiping man instead. Slaves to sin are called robots. Salvation is a setting free.
2007-03-16 16:40:35 · answer #1 · answered by ccrider 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ive got a huge problem with the concept of Free Will...
Psalm 139 states that "All my days are written in your Book." It is said that God has a plan, and that God is omniscient - he knows all. So, how can anyone have free will?
If God has written in his book that I will be asleep tomorrow at 12noon, I do not have the capacity nor the free will to wake up at that moment. If I "choose" to paint my house tomorrow, thats not a choice - it is something preordained, as it is written in his book. Likewise, also appearing in his book must be my ultimate destination - Heaven or Hell. As such, how do I have the capacity to choose a different ending? As an Atheist, God has damned me to hell - I havent chosen it, it is my ultimate destiny. If I had the opportunity to change that, then God wouldnt be omniscient, would he?
2007-03-16 10:19:54 · answer #2 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No his plan does not contradict free-will, God allows humans to make their own choice, he just records what the end result of the choices will be. So there is no influence in man's decision, only the recording of what his decision will bring him.
2007-03-16 10:21:16 · answer #3 · answered by dibba 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
This is the answer to all the hate and violence in the world, God respects the free will (agency) of every single person.
2007-03-16 10:20:30 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, free-will IS God's plan. No contradiction at all.
2007-03-16 10:17:37 · answer #5 · answered by Elmer R 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
No, just like parents might have a plan for their child to go to college, become a doctor etc. The child might decide to be a high school drop out, do drugs, and totally go against the "plan" of his/her parents.
God's plan for us is for our good. We have the ability to decide against that...and many do just that.
2007-03-16 10:20:46 · answer #6 · answered by Misty 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Why all this talk of free will?
The answer is simple.
The Bible teaches that God chooses us, and that it is our sinful nature that causes us to sin- because we are born into sin- even when we are saved, we still become "weak to the flesh" as the Bible says--but God's spirit convicts us, and we know right from wrong and we want to please the Lord, because HE gives us this desire.
Jesus says "Apart from Me, you can do nothing"
How true that is! Any good in me is because of Him!
For no one is good, not one, no one seeks after God as Romans 3:10 says.
Praise the Lord, that he has given His free gift of salvation to those who will believe! I hope and pray many will! But it is God who draws us (John 6:44) Nobody comes to Him on their own.
2007-03-16 10:18:28 · answer #7 · answered by Mandolyn Monkey Munch 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Of course not. The whole idea of free will is that we can choose God's plan or reject it.
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2007-03-16 10:27:21 · answer #8 · answered by PaulCyp 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No. This plan thing is also all wet. If you had a free will, he wouldn't have to get in touch with you, now would he?
2007-03-16 10:18:40 · answer #9 · answered by vanamont7 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The destination is known...not the path getting there.
~ Eric Putkonen
2007-03-16 10:23:11 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋