If God knows everything, can he change anything?

Question

Does he know what's going to happen, but is powerless to change it?

or,

Is he waiting for someone to make a decision, so that he can make changes?

help me think this through...

Answer 1

You are absolutely correct in the answer you imply. If God foreknows everything, then God spends eternity doing things he always knew he would, and cannot change anything he foreknew, so that he spends eternity unable to change anything, since if he did his foreknowledge would be wrong. I call this the "bored" view of God, and I'm surprised how many people hold to beliefs about foreknowledge without thinking through their implications.

Answer 2

god knows eveything that is true
but does he change anything !!
well
we have learnt there is some sort of free will
but what free will means !!
i guess that our free will and decisions always takes place
over many things
so u decide to go and rob someone ok
but on ur way
u witness some accident
or an old lady come up asking for ur help
so it end up u not robbing anything
because ur free will was affected and u realised
that what u were going to do is not a good thing
but the reason is the thing u witnessed
so that is some how a change
god made u walk through that street to see that thing
or another example
lets say a bus is going to make an accident
and u were supposed to be on that bus
but for some reason god wants u alive
so u get late
and u feel really bad about it
after couple of hours
u hear on the news that this bus had got drifted and fell into whatever river or so
god changed a thing that made u late for the bus
there r lots of changes that takes place
or events they r by god's hands
but its not direct

Answer 3

Think of it this way... God created time.

So to ask, does he know what is going to happen?, is irrelevant and in material to a god.

You can look at God two ways:

1) God set up a system that has rules that he plays by (floods, free will, time, space, math, science, etc). Therefore, he doesn't intervene in the world of man.

2) God the chess player who makes moves to change the course of your life. In this case, you have to ask, who is he playing chess with? The devil? and does that make him equal to God?

I lean toward the first one. It makes God more godlike. An all powerful God, has no use for power. I will put it in smaller terms. Rich and famous people have a hard time knowing who their real friends are. Are you around for the money and fame or for me... God has the same issue. So, the only way to know for sure, is to give up control and allow you to believe and follow. If God were in New Jersey or Rome, everyone would follow him even if they didn't want too.

So to answer your question, God knows what is going to happen and has empowered you to change it.

Answer 4

God is creator of every thing.
He knows exactly every thing.

He made some rules and systems,and every thing goes according to that systems and rules.

He is Just and that is why He does not changes thing against the rules normally. But mind it He is sole and absolute authority to change or make what ever He wants.

May God Almighty give us wisdome to find truth and obey God Allmighty, and follow teachings of Holy Prophet Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad (pbu all of them), Amen.

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Answer 5

It is our definition of God that is the problem. Look at a tree whose leaves are rustling with the breezes as the sunset tints the clouds the color rose. God is creation. Not a white man with a beard thinking human thoughts wearing a toga that kills living things in anger that can only be appeased by burnt offerings.

I'm glad we got that straight.

Answer 6

He knows all possibilites of everything ... possibility was created with free will. So yes, He knows everything, and yes, He can change anything. Yes He knows what is going to happen ... and no, He is not powerless to change it.

Answer 7

sure. one million) endure in ideas... he reported this to Adam whilst He asked it. God knew the place Adam grew to become into... He grew to become into talking to him. God grew to become into getting Adam to confess to Him, freely, the place he grew to become into. 2) loose will demands decision of sturdy/undesirable. 3) How does not undermine freewill? i'm uncertain the way it DOES undermine it. God is so helpful, and all understanding... that He may even create a creature that has loose will, mutually as nevertheless being all understanding. he's in simple terms that helpful. to signify something much less could make Him no longer God. 4) He does do this. yet, the guy nevertheless shows freewill. God's grace is open to all of us in Christ.

Answer 8

God is all-knowing. His plan is perfect, therefore He makes no mistakes. Therefore, there is nothing that needs to be changed.

It's humans that make mistakes. After all it was Eve that first took the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden. Adam followed her. But all of our sins (or mistakes) where and are covered by the blood of Jesus Christ. Christ was a perfect man that died for our sins. If He wasn't perfect, His death would of been meaningless. That is why accepting Him as Lord and Savior is so vital.

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Answer 9

Yes he knows everything, even the choices you will make. Obviously he can change anything but this is against the rules.

Answer 10

god knows everything that is going to happen way before it happens and he can change anything he wants to