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than how is human will is free?

2007-05-17 14:35:10 · 17 answers · asked by ? 2 in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

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just because he can see the future outcome of an event, does not mean he has power over our choices to make those outcomes

2007-05-17 14:37:46 · answer #1 · answered by the hamburglar 4 · 2 1

With God being all powerful. It means there is nothing he cant do.

God dwells in the "Now" in the "Present" and not the future.

The Bible is full of men who exercised their free will over that of God.

In the days of Noah, it was the LORD's will that he was going to destroy mankind and the animal kingdom. Which he would have done!

But the Bible tells us that Noah found Grace in the eyes of the LORD.

So, with this God had a change of will, and gave mankind an additional 120 years, to get their house inorder, before the flood came. Just like the Church is doing to days.

Your destiny is in your own hands. Its not God who sends anyone to hell! That choice is yours!

The Bible tells us that because of Jesus, it is "God's Will" that none should parish...

This in itself disputes your question without any additional verses.

Life is filled with forks in the road of life's journey.

These forks are God's Will and Our Will.

2007-05-17 21:47:50 · answer #2 · answered by n_007pen 4 · 0 0

You think there's only one version of the story???

Again the misconception, God gave us freedom, intellect and will. With the use of the intellect, free will means the freedom to choose the good. If you choose the bad, then that's not freedom, for your soul will be in bondage with the devil and the devil will continually ensnare you with temptations to keep you bonded to a life of lies. So we continually pray to the Father, to keep us from temptations and deliver us from all evil.

God foreknows all things, He already knows each consequences of our actions, of our decisions, thus He already laid out plans around us, [family, friends, incidents] to continually try to bring us to Him. Until we find the Truth and the Way, He will always be there, figthing the battle for us.

2007-05-17 21:47:17 · answer #3 · answered by coco_loco 3 · 0 0

Foreknows: Knows in advance.

Just because He knows what you're going to do, doesn't mean He makes you do it. The difference seems obvious enough to me.

Eldritch just cannot wrap his mind around the fact that knowledge does not imply control. Suppose, for example, that you have knowledge of a terrorist attack that's about to happen. You know because you overheard someone talking. Does that mean you are forcing the person who's planning the attack, to carry it out? How does foreknowledge imply control? It's preposterous. Your mom puts out a cookie jar on the counter and tells you not to take one. She really knows you're going to; she just knows you that well. So it's just as though she was holding your hand and forcing it into the cookie jar? And you never had a choice? Really?? Wow, that's really passing the buck.

There really, logically, is no contradiction. And trying to manufacture one is nothing more or less than trying to bow out of responsibility for one's own actions, or else to try to disprove or discredit God. Both of them worthless ambitions.

2007-05-17 21:39:05 · answer #4 · answered by hoff_mom 4 · 2 1

God does know ultimately who is going to heaven or hell. The thing is that throughout your life you are allowed to make a choice, he allows you to have a choice because he sent his Son to die for you...just you. The fact that he was good for all of us is irrelevant. He would have done it for just one person. Just imagine that some super virus came up in Europe, and people are dying all over because of this, everyone is in a panic. Well days go by and you keep hearing this "super virus" is speading more rapidly than anything anyone has ever seen before. France goes into a panic next and the President of the United States says that in order to ensure saftey he has to shut down the borders to all air travel. Friends and relatives are going to have to stay where they are. Next thing you know, you hear that 2 women in Long Island have this disease, and all you know is that you can get it you have it for days before you know it, and you die a painful death. Then you get good news: some doctors in the Midwest found that a certain type of blood will stop this disease, and everyone has to go to a local hospital to try to find an exact match. So you load up your kids and head off to the hospital. Come to find out your only son is the only one who is nearby that has this "miracle blood" and the doctor says he needs you to sign a waiver. "Why do i need to sign anything?" you ask. Well we didnt know that it was gonna be a child. We need all of it. Its for the whole country. You can save all these people.Could you do it? God has already done it, and he sees people everyday who are ungrateful for it. He still gives everybody a chance and a will to choose, you just have to decide for yourself.

2007-05-17 21:58:19 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Prepare for some truly astounding mental contortions to explain that contradiction :)

The advocates of god's omniscience just can't seem to wrap their minds around the fact that, if our actions were known in advance, it means we never had a choice.

If god KNEW for an absolute certainty that I would steal that cookie when I was 10, and if he is perfect and never wrong, then there is no way I could not steal that cookie. It would simply not be possible for me to make another choice if only one choice results in the reality that god foresaw.

2007-05-17 21:38:59 · answer #6 · answered by Eldritch 5 · 0 0

I don't think foreknows is a real word. Free will is demonstrated every time you make a decision.

2007-05-17 21:59:42 · answer #7 · answered by charliecizarny 5 · 0 0

All creatures come under some headship and have relative freedom..1 cor. 11:3 , heb. 13:17, ROM. 13:1,5,7 AND ROMANS 7:3 , EPH 6:1

2007-05-25 16:38:36 · answer #8 · answered by ? 2 · 0 0

JUst because He knew you were going to write this question, it didn't stop you from using your free will to do it, right? Get it?

If I know you're having corn flakes for breakfast, you still made the free will choice to do it. Think a little deeper.

Hey but its good your thinking about God. That's Him trying to get your attention. Don't miss it. Grab it tight.
http://www.billygraham.org/SH_StepsToPeace.asp

2007-05-17 21:42:05 · answer #9 · answered by Lazarus 3 · 0 1

Just because you have the power does not mean using it all the time. He allows us free choice. His plans and purposes will happen. What part we play in them is up to our choices.

2007-05-17 21:49:18 · answer #10 · answered by grnlow 7 · 0 0

You are confused. God knows before you are born the choices you will make in the exercise of your free will.

There is no contradiction between pre-detremined out come and free will.

2007-05-17 21:43:01 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

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