I don't think it would. I personally don't believe in God, but I feel like even if we were absolutely certain that he was real we would still do bad things.
Think how many people do bad things that are convinced that God exists. Think of all the people who are in prison for homicide that truly believed in God before they committed the crime. Just look at the pastor from Colorado that was visiting a prostitute and taking drugs. I find it hard to believe that he didn't really believe in God and the last few decades of his life were just an act.
I think if we knew for sure it would make it easier, but it would not completely take away free will.
What do you think?
2007-06-22 07:21:09 · 26 answers · asked by Steve A 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
We have free will. God exists and allows us that right. Hopefully, we choose Him.
2007-06-22 07:24:18 · answer #1 · answered by Novice 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If we knew that God exists there would be no more faith, which is what the belief in God is all about. That is why his existence cannot be proven. It would contradict his point of creation. He, at the beginning of time, had Adam know the He existed and then let humanity go from there. Free will never could be eliminated under any circumstance because God himself has free will, but unlike us he make the right decision everytime. But you're right, there would still be sin even if God were to prove to us right now that he existed. Is that not the big point that God continually makes?; no matter what God has done for us, we continue to sin.
God bless.
2007-06-23 17:30:17 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God does exist and He gave us free will and because we are in this sinful flesh we will continue to make mistakes and bad decisions. We cannot live the Christian life on our own we must have the Holy Spirit inside us to let Jesus live His life through us. If the prisons are full of people that "believed" and did these crimes any way I find it hard to consider them true believers
2007-06-22 07:34:32 · answer #3 · answered by Big Daddy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree... We have free will for a reason... for either the good or the bad. The main reason is love. Love, to be love, must be freely given of one's own free will. It can't be demanded or forced. It is our hearts longing and desire... the subject most of all our songs, books, our life. It is what God wants and created us for. If you summarize His commandments, the first few are about loving Him and the rest are about loving others. Love is alive, ongoing, dynamic... and so will your relationship be with Him once you get to know and love Him. God is love. To take away our free will would destroy this ability to love, and separate us from God and each other. The choice is always ours... will you love God and other people?
2007-06-22 07:25:12 · answer #4 · answered by Bill Mac 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"...I heard a voice say, go and tell her I forgive her. Now the voice I have heard before. It was not in my head, but it was coming from my spirit." Well you found proof that you are nuts. I mean, if you took it as your own conscious and good will toward another, fine. But to think it came from your "spirit," that's a bit crazy. I mean, that's not even your deity talking to you then, you are claiming that your own spirit did it like you are magic and superior or something. Are you ever capable of any of those on your own, or is it always your god telling you to do stuff. I mean really. What sane person confuses their own thoughts with a deity talking.
2016-05-17 21:17:01 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Human beings have a conscience. When we sin we separate ourselves from what is HOLY. That said, the Law was given to bring us to the knowledge that we cannot live completely sinlessly. There was only one who ever lived a completely sinless life, Jesus Christ. He came as the unblemished Lamb of God to take away the sin of the world. The Law points us to him, showing us in a mirror our need for the power of his atoning blood, our reconciliation to our Holy God, our Heavenly Father.
2007-06-22 07:35:21 · answer #6 · answered by hisgloryisgreat 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Adam and Eve knew God existed yet they chose to disobey, so even the Bible preserves the concept of free will in the face of certainty of God's existence.
2007-06-22 07:27:10 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We have the freedom to choose, and always will. You are correct in saying that such knowledge would impact choices people make. It does and has. I myself know that God lives. That wonderful fact has greatly impacted my life, though I am not nor ever will be without temptations. I choose to do what is right before God because it pleases Him. Others may choose differently. That is their right.
2007-06-22 07:33:49 · answer #8 · answered by rob7685 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Free will has nothing to do with knowing or not knowing, believing or not believing in the existence of God. Free will just *IS*.
2007-06-22 07:24:32 · answer #9 · answered by MyPreshus 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Free will is a human illusion. After the fall of Adam, the will of man was corrupted. Man desires only evil continually. Man is powerless to choose good. Only the Holy Spirit can enable man to choose to turn from sin to Christ.
2007-06-22 07:24:41 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The fact that many people "believe" in god, yet still do not follow his commandments tells me something very important:
Deep down, they don't believe in him. If you knew god existed, and you knew he would send you to hell if you didn't follow the bible to the letter, what kind of lunatic would try to do otherwise?
There is nothing in this world that could tempt someone to spend an eternity being tortured in hell for it.
Think about it.
2007-06-22 07:27:59 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋