Is God able to see the future?

Question

If so it means he planned to drown everyone via flood.

Answer 1

...which makes him kind of retarded, doesn't it?

Answer 2

We have some bitter people in this category, don't we. Grow up. No matter what we each believe there isn't any reason to get so angry because someone speaks of believing something different. (This is not an answer to your question, these people are making all religions look like nothing but BS). Some say God knows everyones future.

Answer 3

God can see what we consider to be the future. But it is not the future to God. God has no past, present or future. He views the totality of time and space eternally, from His viewpoint outside of time and space. It isn't really accurate to say that God "knows what I am going to do before I do it". It's more accurate to say that God eternally and continuously observes every event that occurs in time, which includes every free choice that every human being makes during their allotted time on earth.

Answer 4

Assuming there were a god, then probably time would have no limitations for him, and an entirely different meaning than to us. Perhaps he would not see the future-- merely mold it and events in it according to his purposes. Assuming that he could see the future would pretty much discredit the doctrine of free will--one of the cornerstones of Christian theology.

Answer 5

This has caused confusion for some. It is good to consider how God's word answers this. Throughout the Bible record, God's exercise of foreknowledge is consistently tied with his own purpose and will. "To purpose" means to set something before ones self as an "aim" or "object" to be attained. (The Greek word meaning "something placed or set before"). Since God's purposes are certain of accomplishment, he can foreknow the results and also the steps he sees fit to take.(Isa. 14:24-27) Thus he is spoken of as 'forming' or 'fashioning' his purpose concerning future events or actions.(2 Kings 19:25; Isa. 46:11. Compare Isa. 45:9-13,18).[NOTE: The death of inoccent menkind is Not one ofhis purposes.] As the great Potter or Fashioner God operates all things to the way his will counsels[in harmony with his purpose].(Eph 1:11), and makes all his works cooperate together for the good of those loving him. (Rom 8:28) It is ,therefore, specifically in connection with his foreordained purposes, that God tells "from the beginning, the finality"(Isa.46:9-13) When the first human pair where created, God looked upon it as being "very good"(Gen.1:26,31) Instead of distrustfully concerning himself with what the pair's future actions would be, the record says he "proceeded to rest"(Gen.2:2) He could do so since no future circumstance could prevent the accomplishment of his purpose.(Isa.14:27) We humans have free will. For predestination to be a fact, would mean that God would be continually changing his mind,(Not consistant with a purpose) be subject to vexation and would bring him into confusion. If even God's earthly servants have no need to be "anxious about the next day", it follows that their creator, to whom mighty nations are as "a drop from a bucket," neither had, nor has such anxiety.(Mat. 6:34;Isa. 40:15)

Answer 6

Is it really God's fault whenever humans exercise their free will? God is fair and just and it is evident that He brought on the Flood only because it HAD to be done. As the scripture says, God "does not desire any to be destroyed but desires all to attain to repentance." (2 Pet. 3:9)

Answer 7

It is not seeing the future as we understand it. Imagine a piece of paper extending forever in all directions and draw a one foot line on it. The line is time and the paper is God. He exists at all points of the line and past it at the same time.

Answer 8

God doesn't see it, he knows it and is there already. Yes he planned to drown those people long ago and long from now. He knows who is going to hell and who isn't.

Answer 9

Yup. He knew that they where gonna rebel against Him. And, He spared Noah because he followed God and didn't care what everyone else thought. THE ONLY ONE IN THE WORLD AT THAT TIME WHO OBEYED GOD WAS SAVED. Sorry. Just so people would read it.

Answer 10

If so, I have 2 tickets to the track.

Answer 11

Well, didn't Christ know of his crucifixion before it happened? Unfortunately, he surrounded himself with friends who, in the Bible, resembled the Keystone Cops more than they did the pillars of Christ's early church.