RE: Freewill
March 25, 2012 at 9:12 am
(This post was last modified: March 25, 2012 at 9:13 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(March 25, 2012 at 3:37 am)Christian Wrote:(March 24, 2012 at 9:35 pm)aleialoura Wrote: Does your god not have a plan? Is he omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent?
He is.
Let me give you analogy.The sun will rise tomorrow. I am not causing it to rise nor am I preventing it from rising by knowing that it will happen. Likewise, if I put a bowl of ice-cream and a bowl of cauliflower in front of my child, I know for a fact which one is chosen - the ice cream. My knowing it ahead of time does not restrict my child from making a free choice when the time comes. My child is free to make a choice and knowing the choice has no effect upon her when she makes it.
God knowing what we are going to do does not mean that we can't do something else. It means that God simply knows what we have chosen to do ahead of time. Our freedom is not restricted by God's foreknowledge; our freedom is simply realized ahead of time by God.
The sun has a choice? The best analogy you could dredge up was that a human parent can predict the eating habits of a small child? Your god is a malicious precog, something that the faithful can never seem to grasp. You forgot to add in the bit about how you were going to beat your child for choosing the ice cream, knowing in advance that it would choose it.
Thankfully, monsters only exist in fairy tales, and yours is no different.
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