How can anyone have free will if god already knows what you will choose?

Answer 1

One of the many contradicting aspects of the Christian bible. Said your suppose to have free will, but then your suppose to be part of God's plan. What if you don't want to be part of his plan. There goes your free will.... Why would a all powerful God make faulty humans then blame them for his own mistakes...?

Answer 2

We have limited free will. God sees the end from the beginning, He knows what you will do and when, it has already happened in His view, He is not surprised by anything. Either we have total free will or God does, can't have both. If you decide to go left, but God decides you go right, guess who wins. If you think you have total free will, read Jonah, he tried to run, but God's will won out. There is no free will concerning salvation. That is not biblical. God chooses, elects, selects those whom He will save, it is totally monergistic, not synergistic.

Answer 3

You are given free will. You can use it to choose to know that you have never ending life, or you can choose to have an eternal death.

Christianity not about being sure about God or Jesus, it's about knowing that you have a soul and nurturing it for the forever after. Don't believe, just it look up " Eternal Sin " on wikipedia.

Answer 4

You are lamely trying to limit the Limitless One, the Almighty and Everliving God with boring linguistics. This you cannot do.

He is Omniscient. ALL knowing. This means ALL. God not only knows what you will do (or choose) - He also knows what you will do (or choose) in an infinite number of situations or outcomes. He knows what will happen if you turn right, or turn left, or go straight, or turn around, or hop on one foot for an hour. Omniscience! Get it?

As it says in Holy Scripture...(God) is not a man...(His) thoughts are not our thoughts..."

Putting human limitations on Him just don't fly.

Your God is too small, my friend. He is outside of time, and inside of time. He is beyond time, space and dimension, and yet in Him we "live and move and have ou being."

Answer 5

Most of your answers involve internal contradictions by people that cling to free will theology AND God's sovereignty in spite of the logic presented to them. I think in actuality what people end up doing is limiting God when they should be limiting themselves and looking at themselves as the damaged people that they are. This means that everyone throughout history is sinful, from birth, and does not merit heaven. Only if this is true can you have a truly omnipotent, all-powerful God who can determine who will be saved because he is the one who must rescue man from his condition. Man does not have the ability, otherwise he may as well tell God to move over, he'll determine his own destiny through his own choice.

Answer 6

Because knowing the outcome of a choice does not eliminate the fact that a choice was made. You're free to choose to follow God or reject Him. Though He knows, and always knew, what choice you will make, you still make the choice and you're responsible for that choice.

Answer 7

God knows what you will choose. He doesn't force you to choose it. Example, if I put a plate of celery and a bowl of ice cream in front of my kid, I absolutely *KNOW* what he will choose. But it's still his choice. I don't *MAKE* him pick the ice cream, he does that of his own free will.

Answer 8

Big difference between foreknowledge and predestined.
Foreknowledge means God knows what choice you will make. Predestined means God made you to make a certain choice.

Answer 9

With an Omnipotent God a free will is imposable.
Kisses Betty B.

Answer 10

God knows what you do, not what you will choose to do. It's called "free" will.