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Christianity teaches God gave us free will and yet at the same time it states God is omniscient/omnipotent. If our destiny or future has been predetermined by God, how can we have free will?
Christianity teaches God gave us free will and yet at the same time it states God is omniscient/omnipotent. If our destiny or future has been predetermined by God, how can we have free will?
Can you elaborate because it seems to be mentioned quite a bit in these forums. Also, here is a link to various scriptural references.Christianity teaches nothing of the sort.
Can you elaborate because it seems to be mentioned quite a bit in these forums. Also, here is a link to various scriptural references.Christianity teaches nothing of the sort.
God's Sovereignty vs. Free Will
Christianity teaches God gave us free will and yet at the same time it states God is omniscient/omnipotent. If our destiny or future has been predetermined by God, how can we have free will?
I understand, Connery, but if even our choice to believe or not to believe is pre-determined by God, how can we say we have free will?
I understand, Connery, but if even our choice to believe or not to believe is pre-determined by God, how can we say we have free will?
The question of free will, moral liberty, or the liberum arbitrium of the Schoolmen, ranks amongst the three or four most important philosophical problems of all time.
On the one hand, does man possess genuine moral freedom, power of real choice, true ability to determine the course of his thoughts and volitions, to decide which motives shall prevail within his mind, to modify and mould his own character? Or, on the other, are man's thoughts and volitions, his character and external actions, all merely the inevitable outcome of his circumstances? Are they all inexorably predetermined in every detail along rigid lines by events of the past, over which he himself has had no sort of control? This is the real import of the free-will problem.
Christianity teaches God gave us free will and yet at the same time it states God is omniscient/omnipotent. If our destiny or future has been predetermined by God, how can we have free will?
In other words, the all knowing God does not know whether I am destined for heaven or hell? I cannot grasp the concept of an eternal life...never to end...never EVER!Your eternity isn't predetermined
In other words, the all knowing God does not know whether I am destined for heaven or hell? I cannot grasp the concept of an eternal life...never to end...never EVER!Your eternity isn't predetermined
I guess the extreme bias of those publications is not a problem for you.God is absolute Master, by His grace, of all the determinations of the will;
man remains free, even under the action of grace;
the reconciliation of these two truths rests on the manner of the Divine government.
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Teaching of St. Augustine of Hippo
Theological DeterminismI understand, Connery, but if even our choice to believe or not to believe is pre-determined by God, how can we say we have free will?
Where do you get that notion from?