Yes yes, I know about "free will", but he knew some of us, would choose to use our will wrongly, thus leading to hell. That, in my opionon seems very mean!
2007-03-19 07:32:56 · 12 answers · asked by hot_rican_4_ju 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Life is not predestined. Just because God knows ahead of time what we will choose, does not mean that we are not capable of making choices that will land us in Heaven when we die. Life is not so inflexible and cut and dry that if God knows ahead of time that we will choose hell, we will actually end up there. God is a God of second chances, and third and fourth and fifth chances, and so on. God already knows how we will choose, but He also gives us a free will to choose. We are capable of changing the course of our future by the choices that we make.
God knew I would choose to become a Christian. He also knew I could choose to reject Christ. If I rejected Christ, I could later choose to accept Him again. It is God's desire that we all spend eternity in Heaven with Him. While He knows who will choose Heaven and who will not, He also is flexible and will give us many chances to choose Him. Because He gives us free will to choose, it is NOT carved in stone that those who will choose hell over heaven (by their faith or lack thereof) would be better off not to have been born than to have to face hell. Why? Because God is a flexible God who created each of us with a pliable heart. While one could have a tendency toward hard-heartedness and stubborness, God knows that each of us can change our hearts and choose differently. If He sees our changing hearts, then regardless of what God knew would happen when He made us, He is willing to give us another chance and therefore change the future that was "predestined" for us.
God does not live by the rules of Man, so it is possible to change our "predestined" futures by the choices we make. God realizes this and it is out of this knowledge and His desire to have us join Him in Heaven, that He gives us life and allows us to choose, so that we will hopefully make the correct choice. The thing we need to remember however, is that because God knows our hearts, He will only give us so many chances before He decides that our hearts are so hardened that we will refuse to change, making additional chances pointless. It will be at that time that He will allow nature to take its course and we will die when that time arrives, whether or not we chose to follow God. At that point, God will allow us to be in Hell because that was OUR choice - not His, and it will make Him very sad, because He gave us several chances to follow Him, but we intentionally refused. We will have sealed our own fate.
2007-03-19 07:53:25 · answer #1 · answered by Chimichanga to go please!! 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He was probably hoping that you (not "you" in particular, but just in general) would be saved. You're right, everyone does have free will. But when non-believers meet believers, there is that one moment that non-believers think, you know maybe this is the real thing. But they don't act on it. And I believe that God gives us one more chance to accept him and Lord and Savior before we die. (The bible doesn't say that, but God is a loving God and he wants all his children saved.) It's all about choice. And he creates you hoping to make the right one! But in the world that we live in today, people are more concerned about "earthly things" than Godly things.
2007-03-19 14:39:21 · answer #2 · answered by Agent Pierce 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well if you created something and it didn't believe in you because it couldn't see you.... and you sent something to it (a book) so that it would know that you exist and then sent someone (Jesus) to tell it all about you and all you had to do to save yourself from eternal damnation was believe in the very one thing that created you out of love and believe in the guy that taught you this and saved you.... and you said "hell no", would you not say... oh well I gave you every opportunity???
If you know a truck is going to come at you at full speed and you don't get out of the way... whos fault is it?
2007-03-19 14:40:24 · answer #3 · answered by sassinya 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How can a man possibly know the mind of his Creator apart from what He has chosen to reveal about Himself in the Bible? God is good. God made man in His image with the opportunity to share eternity with Him. God loves man and takes no pleasure in the destruction of the wicked. I guess we're back to free will.
2007-03-19 14:42:14 · answer #4 · answered by John 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Perhaps God is not bound by our limitations and while he created the experiment and the variables within - those variables including time may not apply to God's reality or situation. That is to say - God created the experiment and saw the final results even though we are still experiencing them.
2007-03-19 14:38:55 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its never mean or unfair when we get to choose. We all have the same playing field. It would not be real love if there were no choice involved. You can't build a relationship with robots.
2007-03-19 14:38:04 · answer #6 · answered by rejoiceinthelord 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, free will. God gave it to us, so that we can choose to serve him and do the right thing. Yes, he knows what we are going to do before we do it, but free will is there to either do what's right or not.
2007-03-19 14:37:07 · answer #7 · answered by Abby's momma 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe God need to make an example of some people so that all of the others would know about justice.
2007-03-19 14:40:22 · answer #8 · answered by Randy G 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because he wanted us to love him freely...he wanted us to choose him.
Even though it hurts him that we don't choose him, he will not go back on his promise.
It's not mean...if you choose to love God, you most likely, won't go to hell.
2007-03-19 14:39:44 · answer #9 · answered by Misty 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bottom line is GOD created us, but you choose your own path.
2007-03-19 14:48:16 · answer #10 · answered by Time2Visit 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋