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Is God Really Omniscience? Does He Know Everything? / Christians And The Foolishness Of Freewill / If You Had Been The One Creating Things, Humans, Will You Had Given 'freewill' ? (2) (3) (4)
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Omniscience And Freewill by Humblebloke(m): 9:24am On Oct 14, 2015 |
The monotheistic religions (Judaism, Christianity, Islam) tell us that God is omniscient - he knows everything. They also tell us that we human beings have free will - we make our own decisions and chart our own lives. That means, believers say, that we choose whether to be good or bad, whether we obey God's laws and go to heaven or we sin and spend eternity in hell. Sounds reasonable, doesn't it? But there's a problem: you can have either God's omniscience or human free will, but you can't have both. The explanation is simple. in every situation in life.Given enough information,we can predict what will happen next, in nature and in people. We look at dark clouds and know it will rain soon. If the sun comes out it's probably going to get warm It's the same for human beings. If we know them well enough, we can predict what they will do in most situations Our predictions are sometimes wrong, but only because our knowledge is limited. We think we know someone's. personality, but we only know what they show us, not the emotions they keep hidden; And so on. If we did know everything, we would be able to predict the future....... Prediction depends on omniscience - total knowledge. If you know everything, you can predict everything - the exact moment a dropped ball will hit the ground, the precise effect an espresso will have on busy executive's ability to think, whether a disaffected youth will put on a suicide belt and blow up a crowded market. Of course we do not have total knowledge - and we never will have it. But, believers tell us, God knows; God knows everything. He know The fact that God knows everything means that human beings have no free will. In our minds we are free - but the freedom is illusory. We think we are free because we do not see or understand all the influences on our personalities and lives - our parents' attitudes towards us, the viruses lurking in the air,And so on. But for God, we have no free will. He knows already every influence, past, present and future on our lives. He knows how we behave - and will behave - in every situation. He knows whether we will worship or abandon him. It makes no difference what we do, whether we pray and worship or sin and blaspheme; God knows, even before we are born whether we will enter Heaven or Hell after we die. Our free will is an illusion; our lives are forever fixed in the amber of God's mind. Some believers accept this principle, known as predestination. They accept that God knows who will be saved and who will not and nothing anybody can do will change that situation. Within that group, some believe that they have been saved, which means that it doesn't matter how badly they behave because God has reserved a place for them in heaven. You can work out for yourself the fault in their logic... It's not only humans who have no free will neither does God. Because he knows everything, he knows his own being and future. He cannot choose to act because he knows already what his choices and actions are. God is trapped in eternity in his own omniscience... If God exists, we can only come to one of two conclusions: -If God knows everything, we have no free will - and he lies when he tells us that we have it - If we have free will, God does not know everything - he is not God The second conclusion is unacceptable to monotheists, who believe that God is all-powerful and all-knowing. (A God who is not omniscient is possible for Deists.) The logic of their own position means that Christians (and Jews and Muslims) have to accept that we have no free will; it doesn't matter what Church leaders tell you or whether you live your life as a sinner or saint, God knows already whether you are going to Heaven or Hell. But we do not have to be pushed into either of these conclusions. There is a third possibility: that God does not exist at all. So, our final choice is between an omniscient God that makes a mockery of the idea of free will, a God that does not know everything (and that therefore may not be all- powerful), and no God at all. Whichever we choose, we cannot avoid the conclusion that we can have either free will or an omniscient God, but we cannot have both. Muslims, christians and (jews) in the house...... Perhaps you lots have other definitions for this..... Most of you are possessed by the holy spirit.... Can we have both(freewill and an omniscent god) 3 Likes 2 Shares |
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