God is everywhere, helping Moses, helping Noah, destroying unfit cities, testing man, the list goes on.
I thought God gave us free will? So why did he help those in Biblical times? Is this not clearly against free will, helping the Israelites escape Egypt for example. He doesn't help citizens escape the terrors of dictators today or in the past, why should he help them exclusively?
What happened to free will?
2007-08-26 16:57:29 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Free will also means the Egyptians could do what they want to the Israelites. God is violating free will by messing with the nature of things.
2007-08-26 17:08:06 · update #1
its against someones free will to say yes to help? how? and the isrealites were HIS ppl so HE helped them. tday ik ppl tthat pray very much for God to allow them to escape were they r now (in places like cuba or venezuela) and they r in bttr countries now.
2007-08-26 17:04:40 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are sadly mistaken. If I help my children, does my help take away their free will? Hardly! So to, when G-d helps people, like He did in the Torah using your example, the Exodus, or now a days, as He helped Israel rescue the Ethiopian Jews from persecution, war and famine, He does not take away free will, but gives the power to put into practice free will that might otherwise not have enough power to succeed.
2007-08-27 00:45:41 · answer #2 · answered by emesshalom 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There wasn't any free will. God didn't want his chosen people to do THEIR will, he wanted them to do HIS will, which is why he gave them 613 laws to follow. In many verses, God issues dire warnings of what will happen to them if they don't do exactly as he says--plague, pestilence, war, their children will be dashed on the rocks, etc. How can anyone exercise their "free" will when any attempt to do so will be met with horrific punishment? In the NT, the punishment is even worse: you get sent to everlasting hell fire. Ephesians 1 tells us that God predestines who will be saved and who will not, so we don't have any choice in the matter. The majority of humankind is doomed to hell because God did not predestine them to be saved. Can anyone tell me where free will is in all of this?
2007-08-27 00:13:35 · answer #3 · answered by Antique Silver Buttons 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
it is jus a term coined up so they have more words to used when they are trying to tell non believer they are going to hell.
dude , another 10 years , there will be some new words they can use , so they can claim all the 6 sides of the dice and condemn anyone they don't like to hell , that includes any christians that arent in their doctrines too
for one , they will tell people 33% of religion are christians to tell people their superiority in numbers , yet there they are calling christians in other doctrines that they are non christians.
see the tatic?
2007-08-27 00:05:55 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You mean God's chosen people? Yup, there goes free will. Only his own were saved through the law.
2007-08-27 13:27:02 · answer #5 · answered by ccrider 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ever been lied too . Free will occurs usually after all important decisions have been priced . Tell the judge about it .
2007-08-27 00:03:59 · answer #6 · answered by dogpatch USA 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
free will we have that right to be the person we are, and this
has nothing to do with God helping Noah or freeing the
Israelites to escape we place our trust and faith in the
living God to help us in situations such as this?
2007-08-27 00:11:12 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why don't you read Judges, Kings, or Chronicles? It tells of people who did good, or did evil. What do you call that?
There are plenty of examples of 'free will', and examples of the consequences to it.
2007-08-27 00:03:55 · answer #8 · answered by witnessnbr1 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋