In order to have free will, you must have more than one option, each of which is avoidable. This means that before you make a choice, there must be a state of uncertainty during a period of potential: you cannot know the future. Even if you think you can predict your decision, if you claim to have free will, you must admit the potential (if not the desire) to change your mind before the decision is final.
A being who knows everything can have no "state of uncertainty." It knows its choices in advance. This means that it has no potential to avoid its choices, and therefore lacks free will. Since a being that lacks free will is not a personal being, a personal being who knows everything cannot exist.
Therefore, the Christian God does not exist.
2007-10-29 12:19:35 · 18 answers · asked by Future 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You got it right as far as I'm concerned. God's omniscience and foreknowledge precludes his own fee will. He has always known what his course of action would be and has no freedom to act otherwise. If he did anything differently, his foreknowledge that he's always had would have been incorrect, so he is bound to do what he knows he will do and has no choice but to do it. A god with all of the contradictory superpowers that we usually attribute to Yahweh is utterly impossible.
2007-10-29 12:33:55 · answer #1 · answered by Boris Bumpley 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Free will works like this - God has sent His Message through his Prophet's. We were taught the difference in right and wrong so that we don't claim ignorance. It is of our own "Free Will" that we either choose to believe or not-believe....basically as humans we, in every situation, always have two options - right or wrong of which each is avoidable depending on the kind of person you are.
You are attempting to compare the Lords existence with some bull-**** theory, what's funny is it sounds like YOU THINK YOUR SMART!
You are more than welcome to not believe in God, that's your own Free Will. You must understand that your analyzations, and theories, and hatred does not matter to the true believers or the Lord, it will only be your soul that bears the weight and is tortured for your blasphemy!
2007-10-29 19:36:03 · answer #2 · answered by kal_corp 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
im not saying that there is one or isnt one, but like most people in the uk with any kind of education i need evidence. Im open minded but you cant start believing in stuff that there is no evidence to support, i think the path to madness lays in that direction. Oh look, theres 6 foot pink penguin called Jeff. If i could get a million people to believe in Jeff the 6 foot pink penguin would it exist any more than if just 1 person believed it.
2007-10-29 19:26:59 · answer #3 · answered by jj26 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Aesity means self-existence. Aesity explains the metaphysical nature of God as a purely self-existent being that exists in complete actuality. God is not a being that is created by another god; neither does God create himself into existence. Rather, God has always existed as an unchanging, completely actualized being.
God has his Being of himself and to himself such that he is Absolute being and the definition of existence.
Since God’s essence is his nature and God’s existence is the same as his essence it follows that God is existence.
2007-10-30 15:00:04 · answer #4 · answered by cashelmara 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is nonsense. You are a born sinner; born with a sin nature, you will continue to sin to your last breath unless you accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, regardless of your free will.
John 3:16 "For God so loved the world, that He gave His one and only Son, that whosoever believes in Him, shall not perish but have eternal life."
2007-10-29 19:28:07 · answer #5 · answered by goldyyloxx 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well stated. Of course you will be getting cop-out answers from religious people trying to claim that your logic is wrong. But in my eyes your logic makes sense.
2007-10-29 19:29:46 · answer #6 · answered by Imagine No Religion 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The freewill argument for the nonexistence of a question?
2007-10-29 19:22:48 · answer #7 · answered by qwert 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
well said; not that they'll stop and think.
I love how they are so smug to tell us what "will" happen on their alleged judgment day. If you can't win an argument, try to strike fear into the heart of your opponents.
Nice theology. Not.
2007-10-29 19:25:58 · answer #8 · answered by kent_shakespear 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
He gives us free will, we can go with a plan he might have for us or you can go your own way and when u die don't get upset when u realize that as u were out of his will you will not be with him in heaven. The non beleivers go to a horrible place call hell. (the devil fools u all our lives to follow him and when we die we go to where he lives).
2007-10-29 19:28:17 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I like the last line the best.
2007-10-29 19:22:11 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋