- If no, you have no free will. Free will would mean you could choose to eat tacos for lunch.
- If yes, God was wrong about his prediction and is not omniscient.
2007-04-16 03:59:32 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
SeeTheLight: What's yours?
2007-04-16 04:07:19 · update #1
Laptop Jesus: So God is not omniscient.
2007-04-16 04:08:01 · update #2
Hot air: Why?
2007-04-16 04:09:01 · update #3
God knowing what choices you may or may not make in the future neither limits your opportunity to make a choice nor does it relieve you of the responsibility for choices made.
edit: Why? Because the choice is still yours to make. How does God's knowledge of the future effect your choices?
2007-04-16 04:05:22 · answer #1 · answered by Mr. E 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
"You didn't come here to make the choice, you came here to understand WHY you made the choice."
Direct quote from the oracle in the matrix.... after the oracle offers neo a piece of candy he says "Do you already know if i'm going to take it?" to which she replies "I wouldn't be much of an oracle if i didn't!" & then he asks "If you already know how can i make a choice?" to which her response was what i originally quoted above. Yeah, I'm a dork. Game over!
I believe christianity is not about making the choices, I think they join the cult because they want to know WHY they've made those choices...they want to know WHY they're on earth .... the religions answer the questions the way people want to hear. Go to heaven, enjoy an afterlife filled with reward. They think that is the "why" but the real why is that they have nothing better to do & no true free will.
Another matrix comparison .... Later they go to speak to the merovingian who states that "Why" is the only real source of power. Anyone who can tell you a "Why" is powerful, hence the reason why religions have so much power. They tell people the no-fail "why" for everything. "god's will" that's why!
Everyone has free will.... what you choose to do with that free will is solely up to the individual. If that person chooses to give their free will to a fictional god, let them. They're missing out on life.
2007-04-16 04:05:23 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God in his sovereignty spoke the universes into existence,spun the globe of the earth,and with foreknowledge of the will of man accommodated accordingly,by his divine will. How and why He has chosen the particulars of said accommodations is not for us to know. Further,we only have free will to chose within the limits that he also has sovereignly chosen...again,by his will.
We have free will,but again God is Sovereign,and retains the right to "interfere" with our plan at his will. We may freely chose our paths within boundries that he has chosen....
I may fly to the moon today,if God allows,or I may chose to work on my Bonsai trees,or maybe just enjoy a video game or two, possibly I should pray and ask God what his will is for me today....
If I choose to buy lunch today at Mcdonalds,or Taco Bell--I may do so...If when I arrive at either resturaunt and find that there has been an emergency and they are both closed for the morning...I could reason that God would have me to stay at home and enjoy a much healthier course of fresh made vegetable juice using carrots,cabbage,broccoli romain lettuce and celery, knowing that If I partook of the resturant offerings,I would experience a gall bladder attack....I could however ignore the warning and wait untill they re-open.
Did Jesus have to die on the cross If he chose not to?..No
Did Jesus have to die on the cross if he chose not to?. Yes
God has limited Himself by his own nature.and to his spoken word and can not lie..it is against his nature...could God lie..Yes.. will he lie..no, he can not.
2007-04-16 04:35:29 · answer #3 · answered by bonsai bobby 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I actual have already eaten 4 hours in the past (this is because of the fact I stay in Berlin, and this is now sixteen:fifty 8) and that i ate rice with green squash and this noticeably spiced sauce, yumm, yet no longer my fave nutrition. id've enjoyed some noodles... Or that superb thai soup my uncle makes so good, i think of this is spoke of as Tom Ka Gai, yet i'm thoroughly uncertain approximately spelling! Sorry to any Thais available, don't be indignant or something.
2016-11-24 22:24:27 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are wrong about that.
HE is omniscient, HE knows every thing that you will do. You are free to choose between the two. However, what ever you going to eat for lunch that day HE knows about it.
2007-04-16 04:06:10 · answer #5 · answered by Sun Valley 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You're getting this backwards.
Just because God knows what our choices will be, does not mean that we do not have free will.
And, free will has certain parameters within which it operates.
For instance, I do not have free will to fly on my own, sans aircraft. There IS the practical side of free will.
2007-04-16 04:06:00 · answer #6 · answered by Bobby Jim 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The problem is that if you choose to eat tacos, people assume it was due to free will, when really according to their bible, god knew you'd change your mind and it was predestined that you'd dine upon tacos!
2007-04-16 04:04:16 · answer #7 · answered by glitterkittyy 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Your question is a paradox. If God choses to know this obviously you will not be able to do something else! That is why God doesn't chose to know this. The Bible clearly shows that God is NOT omniscient.
have a look at predestination. HP: http://bythebible.page.tl/
Direct link to predestination - predetermination page:
http://bythebible.page.tl/Predestination-Debunked.htm
2007-04-16 04:08:03 · answer #8 · answered by Fuzzy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes and God already knew you were going to do that too.
2007-04-16 04:04:02 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No.
Either things go according to god's plan, or we have free will. It can't be both.
2007-04-16 04:03:07 · answer #10 · answered by Samurai Jack 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋