Is God Totally Free? | Episode 1313 | Closer To Truth

Is God free? If God is God, it seems impossible to limit God's freedom. But can God create a round square? Make 1+1=3? Do evil? Sin? Be brave. There seem to be many things that God cannot do. Featuring interviews with Brian Leftow, Peter van Inwagen, and Dean W. Zimmerman.

Season 13, Episode 13 - #CloserToTruth

Closer To Truth host Robert Lawrence Kuhn takes viewers on an intriguing global journey into cutting-edge labs, magnificent libraries, hidden gardens, and revered sanctuaries in order to discover state-of-the-art ideas and make them real and relevant.

Closer to Truth presents the world’s greatest thinkers exploring humanity’s deepest questions. Discover fundamental issues of existence. Engage new and diverse ways of thinking. Appreciate intense debates. Share your own opinions. Seek your own answers.

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[cvsree]

To be free implies there is something superior to control. But, by definition there is nothing superior to God.

[joykeebler]

ROMANS 11:33 O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgements, and his ways past finding out!

[commandershepard]

Hardships give hope and change. It gives choice, mercy, compassion, and rise to a deity who gives and takes. Those hardships include and are not limited to death, cancer, tornados, hurricanes, earthquakes, meteors, genocide, ect. Praise GOD for he only has the end result in mind... Perfection.

[gilbertengler]

It is clear that from whatever angle we try to explain or describe God and his actions, we constantly run in contradictions and unsolvable situations. All experts have different visions and I would say that this is a strong argument that God simply does not exist. We as human beings need to have respect and fate in our capacity to reason with logic. If we do not accept this, nothing makes sense, not God and not humanity!

[numericalcode]

Perfection is the ultimate constraint.

[HighPokerChessPL]

Within legal values.. as an advice morally relevant.. it has more impact on people I noticed.

[mehdibaghbadran]

We’re all together and that’s gives meaning ! Because even god’s needed to be united with everything in our existence.

[HighPokerChessPL]

You are as free as an animal is.. you are as free as humans are, God is as free as a God is.

[J]

Free will... the ability to do other than that which you will do.

[ameremortal]

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[williamburts]

God is free because he doesn't need anything or is dependent on anything, we are not free because we need and depend on other things.

[nickrindal]

Gods mind is free. Infinite thought.. but physically limited.

[johnbrzykcy]

I like Brian's statements : "What He loves is things like you and me." "That you love something is a reason to make it..."

[jennierichardson]

How does one know what God is like? It sounds inconceivable to me.

[mehdibaghbadran]

The god will be absolutely god’s, if everyone united

[HighPokerChessPL]

BEFORE WATCHING... GOD'S GREAST WEAKNESS IS THAT OF ANY HERO... THEIR LOVED ONES!!... SO GOD IS TOTALLY FREE AS LONG AS HE CARES & LOVES.. IF HE DOESN'T CARE.. GOD IS COMPLETELY FREE.

[reinierquak]

God is not universal. He is personal If you belief he exist, he exist. If you think he is free, he is.

[TheMirabillis]

If God has exhaustive and perfect foreknowledge of what He will do, then He is not free to do other than what He always knew He would do.

[Ploskkky]

"Is God free?"
I am still stuck at the question whether such a thing as a god, or gods exists. Let's first solve that problem before we waste time with the other stuff that follows from that.
Some theologians pretend to know the color of god's underwear, but they do not even have good evidence for the existence of god... nor of his underwear.
Looking at the fallacy machine that is theology and apologetics I am forced to assume there is no such thing as a god at all.
Especially in christian theology the humbug levels are extremely high.

[MrDubyadee]

Why is it assumed that God is “perfect”? Why is it assumed that the experience we are having now in the universe we are now in is all that there is. If God had a greater purpose then our current life might just be a step toward something else. A set of lessons, perhaps? God could just be the creator or the host body with what we might think are imperfections including thoughts that are not good in our view. Without knowing the greater context, what makes us sure we can judge what is good?