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Originally posted by Totakeke
reply to post by favouriteslave
Just because God knows everything doesn't mean we don't get free will. Even if He knew that man would fall into sin (and He probably knew) that doesn't mean we still don't get to choose.
Originally posted by Totakeke
reply to post by favouriteslave
I don't know. To answer your question we'd have to know why God created the universe at all, and we don't know. Perhaps everyone's soul's exist somewhere and God has to give everyone an equal chance to either reject or accept Him.
Yes, He knows what will happen in the end, but knowing that something bad will happen doesn't mean He can stop it. He gave us free will, which includes rejecting Him and going to Hell. God doesn't want us to go to Hell; people choose it. It's similar to a teacher giving a student a bad grade. The student doesn't receive a bad grade because of the teacher, but because of the student. God wants us to get an "A" but we have to accept Him in order to do so.
Originally posted by Totakeke
reply to post by favouriteslave
He isn't powerless. While it's possible for Him to intervene He's given us free will so He can't intervene.
Originally posted by Totakeke
reply to post by favouriteslave
But that doesn't mean you didn't get to choose to do something, it just means that God knows what's going to happen. You could choose to do something else, in which case God would know (and would've known the whole time), but you still had the free will to do it.
Originally posted by favouriteslave
He already knows what you will choose before you do. I'm an atheist, he knew this when he created me.
Originally posted by Divinorumus
Originally posted by favouriteslave
He already knows what you will choose before you do. I'm an atheist, he knew this when he created me.
That's pretty good, funny. How can you say that, being an atheist?
Originally posted by favouriteslave
I was using it as an example. Actually, I'm not an athiest but agnostic. I do believe in a creator but not the god of the bible.
Originally posted by dgtempe
I never post about religion. I grew up Catholic but i dont know much about religion.
I am wondering, instead of sending us fire and brimstone, why doesnt a compassionate God intervene in a way that will not kill, men women and children, a planet that will hit and blow us out of orbit, and horrible things like that???
He made us, damn it. Why did he make us FLAWED. Its HIS fault.
There's nothing compassionate here that i can see.
Originally posted by Totakeke
As soon as Eve bit into that fruit we fell into sin.
Originally posted by dgtempe
I never post about religion. I grew up Catholic but i dont know much about religion. I am wondering, instead of sending us fire and brimstone, why doesn't a compassionate God intervene in a way that will not kill, men women and children, a planet that will hit and blow us out of orbit, and horrible things like that??? He made us, damn it. Why did he make us FLAWED. Its HIS fault. There's nothing compassionate here that i can see.