Okay, I guess I am explaining that inadequately.. omniscience and free will are opposites, and do NOT go together!
..look at it this way.. (Back to the drinking and driving) You have a choice, correct. You can choose to drink and drive, or you can choose not to. HOWEVER, IF god already knows what you are going to choose, than that is NOT free will. Look, If someone knows what you will do, then you are not choosing freely. You are choosing b/c it is your destiny. Choice is an ILLUSION within a predestination system. It appears that you have a choice, but in reality, you don't have a choice.. How can it be a choice if God already knows what you will choose? You truly only have one choice every time you make a decision. Your destined choice. Do you understand know? PLEASE think about this before responding.. free will and omniscience do NOT go together..
And you can see the flaw in this if you are Christian. If you are destined to burn in hell, then there is NOTHING that you can do to change it! You will burn in hell, and God knows it from the day that you are born.. That doesn't seem far to me..
Well honestly, I think you are thinking way too deep into this. It's simple. Truth: God knows what will become of you from the day you are born. BUT, …
...which is a huge flaw in predestination.. You have no free will, so how can you be held accountable for anything? If there was a god, why would there be predestination? God would be punishing people for what they are meant to do.. Why should some of us burn in hell and others live forever in eternal peace? God would be judging us on our destinies that were set before the beginning of time... There are just too many flaws with predestination and the existence of a god..
?? Everyone has free will. You choose what you want do to every day, right?
People "burn in hell" because they simply choose to take that path. (I'm not talking about people who've never heard of God...) For example, if you hear that there's going to be a party tomorrow night with people drinking and driving, and you choose to do the same, you may very well die. I know it's sort of a random analogy, but I couldn't think of anything else.
Like I've said in the other threads, it's the choices that you make that determines your destiny although God knows ultimately what you'll choose. There aren't any flaws with that thought. God is omniscient and we have free will.
I think it's because they know what a change or difference it made in their lives once they found God. They've gone through things I'll never experience. They serve God more than anyone else because they've lived both ways and I guess they just came to realize which one was better.
