Ok If we have free will why is it in the bible everything has already been plan out for mankind. Do really have free will or is our whole life already been plan out. If we have free will then we have the power to change what goes on in the future with the whole antichrist thing. Then the bible would be wrong about our future because we change god's plan for us because of free will.
2007-08-29 17:17:27 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
i look at it like there is no free will unless ur in line with Gods will ... otherwise ur just a pawn in the game ..
2007-08-29 17:21:27 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Just because events will occur that are not within your power to change doesn't mean there is no free will. Especially in the context of an evil being rising up to have power and do a bunch of bad stuff and so forth. People have risen to power and done incredibly horrible things and they weren't the antichrist they were just messed up people and the majority of the people in the world were powerless to stop them this says nothing about free will. Free will is centered on the individual not on the occurance that take place in the environment around the person. Just because you can't stop the antichrist if there is one doesn't say anything about your will. Beside by the time phrophecized events were recognized it would be too late to do anything about it anyway. These two topics are in all honesty completely unrelated.
2007-08-30 00:39:28 · answer #2 · answered by neveroutnumbered 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We definitely have free will! Otherwise, why will God allowed Beelzebub to become Satan, and Adam and Eve to break His directive. Not everyone of us agree with the decision of our forefathers (Adam and Eve) of accepting Satan's lifestyle instead of the lifestyle that God had in mind for us. Look at us! We are falling apart. We were not originally design to die, yet we die. We need God to lovingly rule our lives, because we cannot rule ourselves, and Satan has proved to be a liar, he cannot rule us either. God knows that there has been and there currently is a great multitude that still love Him, and he is making the necessary provisions to give us back what we lost at the beginning. About Antichrist, that is something that is unavoidable. You do not need to be a prophet to see that Satan will do anything in his power to try to influence our free will and decrease to the minimum or eliminate the multitude of people that still love God. Antichrist is not necessarily a person. Every men or organization that do not believe that Jesus is the Christ is an Antichrist. We already live among them, and is going to get worst.
2007-08-30 07:53:30 · answer #3 · answered by Aeon Enigma 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Spirit of Antichrist is already in control of the world,by the choice of man(free will). The 1st Beast of Revelation,will arise also and come to power,by the will of man...God,has warned us through Prophetic Word, of the consequences brought about by the will of man. Man has free will and could bring about change. God has simply looked into the future and has made clear to us though both the prophets of old and the contemporary prophets of today,the path that we Will choose.
2007-08-30 00:36:12 · answer #4 · answered by bonsai bobby 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is a big contradiction in the Bible. There's a verse in Psalms somewhere that says every day is planned out in God's mind or something similar to that. Every birth, every death, etc. So, basically it's God's sick mind that led to all abortions, war, etc. Yet the Bible preaches free will. It makes no sense. We definitely do have free will--we can change anything if we want. Religion is a good concept, but it's imaginary. Sorry.
2007-08-30 00:25:50 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
God created people with the power to say yes and the power to say no. From beginning to end the Bible calls people to "choose," to "repent," to "come," to "seek." We have freedom, as seen in the violence of history and present day, but our freedom functions at all levels of God's grace. He freely offers and we freely receive. God is not about fatalism or other pernicious doctrines.
Additionally:
It is argued that if God is powerful enough to "know" the future then He has, by default, already preordained it. However, if we try to think about it in a drastically larger picture, it can be argued that by existing outside of time and space, God's infinite power allows Him to know any and all of the infinite number of possible futures of the universe based on any and all combinations of every universal action. And this doesn't even address issues arising from string theory. ;-)
2007-08-30 00:35:21 · answer #6 · answered by Capernaum12 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All of the bible prophesies have been spoken and have to come to pass. That includes the antichrist, there is nothing that we can change about those major events, they have already been planned out by God. But other things are going to happen in our lives according to our decisions.
2007-08-30 00:21:40 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Well, if the Bible is not wrong, then you must be wrong in how you're looking at it. Maybe our will isn't as free as we think. Maybe we are born into sin which makes us guilty from the start and in need of a savior. Maybe we don't have the ability to choose God, and He has to choose us.
2007-08-30 03:10:09 · answer #8 · answered by ccrider 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What it means by everything is planned out is that God knows the future, he knows everything that i going to happen, but he created us for a purpose, even though he knew evil would happen, he created us with free will to choose. He knew who would choose and who wouldn't, instead of God created everyone perfect besides Adam and Eve, he created us to know good and evil, otherwise, we wouldn't have free will if we were perfect because we couldn't choose to serve God, we would already be serving him.
2007-08-30 00:23:34 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
All it means is that you are free to live your life peacefully and not by force by God. God's plan, His Will, WILL BE DONE, whether you choose to follow Him or not doesn't change what God's Plan is, it is your free will whether you follow Him or not. He doesn't care to force any one person to follow Him, hence our Free Will. I can understand that, I wouldn't want anyone to love me by force, It means more that a person loves you on their own freely, versus forcing someone to love you. When love is given freely you'll know that love is real and sincere.
2007-08-30 00:58:55 · answer #10 · answered by Admeta 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We have free agency or the ability to choose to follow Jesus or not to follow Jesus. The consequences of our choices do not change in any way Gods plan.
2007-08-30 00:22:31 · answer #11 · answered by Nora Explora 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋