I'm getting conflicting answers.
2007-12-03 06:24:21 · 6 answers · asked by Meat Bot 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Some of you say he does not know the future, and that means he's not omniscient so the bible is wrong.
Some of you say he does know the future, and that means you have no free will.
2007-12-03 06:28:10 · update #1
Y!A: Right, omniscience is a stronger claim to knowledge.
2007-12-03 06:29:36 · update #2
Anthony: Regardless of whether he made you do it though, you cannot do otherwise.
2007-12-03 06:30:38 · update #3
tarkill: But if God is omnipotent, he can make himself know things that cannot be known.
2007-12-03 06:31:57 · update #4
God knows everything that CAN be known. In Gen 6:6 he repented that he made man. So the question goes, if he knows everything, and knew he would repent of making man, then why did he make man in the first place?
Many times in the Bible, God repents that he was going to, or did something. The conclusion is that with the free will he gave man, God can predict what man will do. But until man actually does something, what he will do can't be known until he does it.
Conversely, if God is all knowing in the traditional sense, such that he knows what you will do 20 years from now, then we are simply acting out the role God gave us. If true, then we do not have free will after all. Also, 2 Peter 3:9 would be questionable because if God made me knowing before hand that I would wind up in hell, then how could he be unwilling that any should perish?
MY conclusion is that God knows everything that CAN be known, and still be omniscient. This also reconciles the issue of God's foreknowledge and man's free will.
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Your question asked if God was omniscient, that's what I answered. To comment on God's omnipotence, there are things God can NOT do. He can't allow a sinner to enter heaven, and he can't send a saved person to hell. To do so would violate God's person, his very being. Does that negate God's omnipotence?
As far as willing himself to know the unknown, as I stated before, until man, with his free will completes the act, God cannot know what man will do, otherwise we have no free will. Luke 15:7 says joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth. If it is already foreknown this soul would have repented, why is there joy in heaven when it happens?
God does have knowledge of future events that God controls completely, like as in Revelation and other phophetic events. Otherwise, how could there be prohecy? These are examples of things that can be known.
To a rational person, these truisms compromise neither God's omnipotence nor omniscience.
2007-12-03 06:29:03 · answer #1 · answered by johnson88 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God knows everything past, present and future.
He knows what you are going to do, this is true. He also knows what you contemplated doing and how that would have changed what actually happened if you did it...
2007-12-03 06:28:44 · answer #2 · answered by L.C. 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
ALL damnation, and Punishment became into laid upon Jesus on the circulate for starters! One nonetheless and could desire to acquire His loose present of Salvation as to ultimately be "Sealed" by The Holy Spirit or you're nonetheless 'slaves' on your sins once you Reject Him and condemn your'self' to hell, not God. era.
2016-10-10 04:02:15 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
He knows the future and we do have free will. Just because He knows what I am going to do does not mean He makes me do it. It is my choice.
I can do whatever I want. God does not make people do something or stop them from doing something.
2007-12-03 06:29:40 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
The only "reality" is NOW. When the future arrives, if it does, it will be NOW. God "IS" NOW!
Peace and Blessings....
2007-12-03 06:29:37 · answer #5 · answered by Premaholic 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God knows EVERYTHING.... he even knows what you did last night...
2007-12-03 06:27:49 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋