If God knows all of our future actions, doesn't that mean we have no free will?

Question

And if He doesn't know all of our future actions, wouldn't that mean that He is not omniscient?

If God knows exactly what I'm going to do, I CAN'T have free will. Think about it. Even if He told me what I was going to do, I'd have no way to act otherwise - unless He isn't omniscient.

Or if He doesn't exist.

Answer 1

HE KNOWS

HE WARNS

WE DONT LISTEN
WE SIN

WE GET IN TROUBLE

WE ASK/ PLEAD BEG
REPENT

HE FORGIVES

HE STILL KNOWS
HE WARNS

WE BEGIN TO LISTEN

yup

free will

with LOVE
and Compassion
and Forgiveness
and with
an advocate
Jesus Christ
our LORD

Answer 2

Yes. Our free will is limited. For example if you go to jail, there you are prisioner, but you can do many things, read a book, work in the kikchen, to eat or no to eat, you have free will, but still you can not go out of prison. Another example, If I purchase a ticket for an airline flight, board the plane and commence the flight, once the plane has taken off my decision to board the plane forces me to continue flying until the plane lands(God knows where i am going, He knows my future by taking that decision) But although I am forced to accept the reaction of this decision, on board the plane I have many new decisions I can make(by my free will). I may accept the food and drink from the stewardesses or reject it, I may read a magazine or newspaper, I may sleep, walk up and down the aisle, converse with other passengers and so on. In other words, although the general context—flying to a particular city—is forcibly imposed upon me as a reaction to my previous decision to board the plane(my destiny)within that situation I am constantly making new decisions and creating new reactions(by my limited free will, because i can not jump from the plane). For example, if I cause a disturbance on the airplane I may be arrested when the plane lands(God as omniscient will know that). On the other hand, if I make friends with a businessman sitting next to me on the plane, such a contact may lead to a favorable business transaction in the future.(the omniscient God will see that will happen).

Answer 3

This is asked 25 times a day. As an answer, may I suggest you search and see what 500 other people have written and not just rely on the answers here.

The two are not as related as you are stating in your "question." Yes, we have free will. Maybe it has something to do with quantum physics that most of us can't understand? That would be cool.

Addition: The Ten Commandments have nothing to do with abridging free will either. You always have the free will NOT to follow them, or any other law (think the US Constitution). Of course, you must be responsible for the consequences if you don't follow a certain law that has a penalty.

Cool answer about free will. Yes, if you board the plane, then your free will is certainly abridged if you wish to depart the plane in mid-flight. Great analogy!!

Answer 4

it is nice of you to question this, it shows which you have a logical techniques. Use it. you do no longer in all possibility have loose will. it is the form of contradiction while maximum theists say this. curiously, God is familiar with mutually as in the previous you're born which you will flow to Hell (whosoever became no longer discovered written in the e book of existence became forged into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:15) So there's no longer of project in hell (pun meant ;D) which you are going to get into heaven. God is familiar with this and nevertheless facilitates you to be born. If he has some grasp plan, and each and each decision you're making is a factor of his grasp plan, then you definately particularly have not got loose will simply by fact God is making particular each and all of the alternatives you and the different individual make help convey approximately that plan.

Answer 5

I believe we have free agency, but not free will. In other words, we can make our day-to-day decisions, but none of them lead to God, and therefore we need a Savior. Yes, he does know our future actions. It's not rocket science that God can know exactly what we will be doing, but since he does not owe anyone salvation, he can leave us in our sins and let us do whatever we like, we will not be coming to him unless he is the one to create a new heart within us. As for those who come to him and enjoy a relationship with him, we want nothing but his guiding of our footsteps.

Easy enough?

Answer 6

The questioner question seems to be lack of knowledge. This is due to the fact that God has never told anybody donot do any work and He knows our future and what is written it would be done. We took birth by the blessing of Almighty and our future is based on our work done as "work is worship". It is true that two important factors have kept Almighty with Himself: Life & Death. Whatever the work good or bad we do we will get same type of the results.Thanks of the questioner to ask interesting question.

Answer 7

Speaking hypothetically, no. Just because I know what's going to happen when I watch a rerun of Survivor doesn't mean that the contestants didn't have free will when they did it. If there were a God, I'd assume he's watched every show way in advance. I would.

Answer 8

Even as an atheist, I must say that there is no incompatibility between an omniscient being observing the universe from outside, seeing it as a single unchanging spacetime block, and the free will of self-aware structures within the universe, acting solely on their limited perception.

Free will is void for other reasons, but this is not one of them.

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Your error is in assuming that prescience equates to preordination.

It does not.

Answer 9

God gives us free will, therefore he does not know if we will choose to accept him or not. There would be no sin if he programmed our actions, and no point to living if he knew what all of our actions were going to be.

Answer 10

this should be a drinking question...


watch Bruce Almighty, that's the best example of free will and omniscience.

Morgran Freeman said "i'll see you in 7 days at 7" or something like that

and through a series of comedic happenings, Jim Carrey ends up standing in the middle of a highway looking for Freeman, then when he find him Freeman answers "right on time"

Answer 11

I've heard this a thousand times and I just don't understand the reasoning. What conflict is there between someone having free will, and someone else knowing what free choices he will make using his free will?