Is murder predestined?

Answer 1

No, Murder is an act of free will. Many people get a misconception of predestination. They think if God predestined for them to marry a woman, that they can step out in front of a bus and somehow the bus will miraculously miss them. While it could happen (Wouldn't wanna try to limit God and say he couldn't do it), it is unlikely it WILL happen. We were created with free will so we could choose to follow God, or not choose to follow God. And that free will also allows us to foul up predestined things of God.

Hope this helps...

Answer 2

Whatever happens is God's will. If God wants it to be, it will be, God has the ability to choose the way God wants everything, and God does, by action or inaction. God allows Satan and man to do as they will through God's will.

Nothing is predestined ... okay, the Apocalypse, but nothing else.

Answer 3

No.

+ Free Will +

God created man a rational being, conferring on him the dignity of a person who can initiate and control his own actions.

"God willed that man should be 'left in the hand of his own counsel,' so that he might of his own accord seek his Creator and freely attain his full and blessed perfection by cleaving to him."

Murder is the inappropriate use of free will.

Some people confuse the omniscience (all-knowing) of God with predestination.

http://www.nccbuscc.org/catechism/text/pt3sect1chpt1art3.htm

+ Example +

I have a small child, I know and love this child with all my heart and mind. This child looks at a cookie on the table. I know this child well enough that I know she will take the cookie. The child takes the cookie. Does the child have free will or did I force the child to take the cookie?

God loves and knows us infinitely more than I know that child. Is it not reasonable that God knows what we will do and still not force our actions?

+ With love in Christ.