This isn't new by any means, but I would like your opinions.
1. Do you believe God is omnipotent?
2. Then surely he must have knowledge of the future, yes?
3. Then we cannot have free will.
4. If we don't have free will, then our lives are exactly has he wishes them to be, at every moment.
5. Then all our actions are supported, and encouraged, by Him.
6. Then all our actions must be perfect.
7. Then, everything we do must be right and holy, including masturbation (uh oh), as we are supposedly created in his image.
2007-07-17 17:33:05 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
1.omnipotent encompasses omniscient.
2. if someone knows your future, it means your future is already a reality. you simply cannot alter it. so any knowledge of the future by anyone implies, automatically, a lack of free will. you are "destined" to make one choice that will lead to another and then another so you can actualize the future as it is seen by this higher being. so free will and an omnipotent being are mutually exclusive to eachother. you people need to pick up a book.
2007-07-17 17:50:59 · update #1
God Almighty is sure all knowing and before he created you, he knew exactly where you will end but he just knew the information and he didn't interfere in it, in other terms HE knows but you choose. And if you've choosen the wrong way that's why you will go to Hell it's not because he knew it, I think it's simple, for example if a father has a son and he's seeing how his son is behaving in a bad manner, he's taking drugs, frequently absent in school, having bad friends....etc. then one day he tells him that if he continues like that he will end in jail, now if that really happens can the son blame his father and tell him:" I'm in jail because you told me once that i'll end in jail"???? I don't think he can, he's in jail only because his bad behaviour. That is how God Almighty knows absolutely everything about us, he warns us but we make our own choices.
HOPE YOU GOT IT, AND HOPE FOR YOU ALL GUIDANCE FROM ALLAH ALMIGHTY.
2007-07-17 22:39:47 · answer #1 · answered by SouA 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You must mean "omniscient" (all-knowing)
Omnipotent = all powerful
Well, let's ask the Lord to enlighten us.
Here's what He said: "Knowing the future is not a chain to free will. The vastness of the future is not a flat plane upon which you walk. It is multi-layered and intricate. Some paths close up while others open. Yet all is encapsulated within Me."
Ok, I've got to stop talking to God now. He's a bit much sometimes.
2007-07-17 17:38:26 · answer #2 · answered by Shinigami 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I believe that God is omnipotent, and omniscient, and possesses knowledge of the future. Of course, we have free will. God's knowledge of the choices we will make does not influence the fact that we personally made those decisions. For instance, He doesn't tell us to go out and sin; we do it all by ourselves.
2007-07-17 17:38:56 · answer #3 · answered by solarius 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is omnipotent yes.. which means He has the ultimate free will... in this, He CHOOSES not to know every little move we are going to make so that we can choose for ourselves. With that said, answers 2-7 are wrong :)
2007-07-17 17:36:57 · answer #4 · answered by impossble_dream 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There's a leap of logic in point four. If God is omnipotent, our lives will be exactly how he knows they will be, which is not the same as how he wishes them to be. An onmipotent being already knows how we're going to screw up through our use of free will.
2007-07-17 17:38:50 · answer #5 · answered by Nightwind 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Just because in a game of chess I may know what my opponent is going to do does not mean that I am making their decisions for them or endorse the decisions they make.
Your line of reasoning is that since God is omnipotent then you do not have free will.
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And yet you do have free will because you are free to do as you please, even argue against God and ridicule those who worship.
If you do not have Free Will then How do You pick out the Clothes you Wear?
In your argument you have neglected to point out the concepts of perspective, time and paradox. Are those concepts discussed in the books you want us to pick up?
Did it ever occur to you that it is perhaps Your logic that is faulty?
2007-07-17 21:46:09 · answer #6 · answered by TheNewCreationist 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes I believe god is omnipotent.
Just cause he knows what is going to happen does not mean he planned it or has any say in it. Just means he knows what will happen.
2007-07-17 17:36:59 · answer #7 · answered by LadyCatherine 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Your suppositions are in error. Therefore your conclusions are incorrect. Such trot and drivel. You talk like an idiot. If this is an attemp at humor , then just like you it failed.
2007-07-17 19:57:45 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
1. yes
2. yes
3. false
4. that is true with free will as wll
5. no
6. no
7. no (& i dont believe we are created in His image)
Peace.
2007-07-17 17:42:26 · answer #9 · answered by justmyinput 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋