Do we really have free will? #Shorts

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[imaginox]

I once heard this example: if you go to the future with a time machine, and see that your friend will eat let's say pizza. Then you go back to the present. You now know that your friend will eat pizza the next day, but does that take away your friend's free will ? No ! He will still freely choose to eat pizza !

[fl]

At the end of the day. I dont want free will. My free will always leads me to destruction. I want my God's will to be my will. Take my will oh Lord let only your will be done.

[janicejenne]

That’s not free will if God already knows what we’ll do - this is determination

[connorjackson]

I finally understood this with peace when I thought of Noah:

God didnt MAKE him build the ark, but He KNEW that Noah would listen. So basically God knows that people will accept or reject Him, not that He forces them to do so. Thus free will and perfect sovereignty!

[jeffrey]

God is Infinity awesome and powerful .and patient with little timy humans he created .hallelujah thank you lord almighty God the father God the son and God the holy ghost.

[Playsitloud]

Time and God is best explained in the example of a street parade. God views it from above. You view it from the street.

While you get excited there is a firetruck God saw it from the beginning as he sees the whole parade. You only see what drives in front of you.

[GetOilyWithKathleen]

God knows us and loves us ❤ I believe he teaches us lessons and we evolve into a better person. We choose how we react in every situation. Do we get mad when the car breaks down, or do we just trust God and go with whatever is happening. I know my answer and reactions have seriously changed over the years. Knowing God has control over everything is a beautiful thing. Praying and asking him for a certain outcome and getting it, is also very heartwarming. Sometimes we don't get what we want and that may feel like we don't have free will, but I believe we definitely get to choose loving the Lord or not! 😊

[momoffive]

those questions MUST BE asked by people who don't have children. If you've ever watched a small child, YOU SEE them rationalizing, choosing, and acting. As their parent, you know you didn't give them their will but you can tell oftentimes what they're going to do before they do it. To act (or wonder) as though God, who gave us our will, has LESS power/foresight than parents is the epitome of silly.

[rustyreview]

He is causing.... that's the point.

[harryfaber]

This is one of those interesting subjects. This weekend we celebrate the life of Saint Joseph, and we can all wonder 'what would have happened if he had denounced Mary and had her stoned to death'.

God being 'outside of time' already knew how Joseph would react, how Mary would react. But He did not force them or control them.

The 'outside of time' issue can be a bit of a brain fryer if you let it. Just spend some time with 'Before Abraham was, I am'

[sigguy]

Here’s a question though, reading the comments below. If God knows all the choices that we will make in our lifetime, our own free-will choices, and if one of those choices is to not follow Him or give our lives to Him and be saved, will he step in and try to put people or opportunities in our path to lead us to making a choice of salvation, this altering his omniscience of knowing all the choices we will make? 🤷🏼‍♂️

[PlatonistAstronaut]

It confuses me how he can describe a deterministic universe, but then say it's a universe with free will. If anyone knew the outcome, they did so by knowing the cause and effect. It clearly wasn't random.

[RachelDee]

Double predestinationists enter the chat...

[xtanagaming]

God: knows how fucked up this world will be if he makes it

Also god: makes it anyway

[paulcampbell]

Time was only created by man to judge his own actions. GOD is not governed by time.

[spencerbrown]

The Bible also says that God can be everywhere all at the same time. And that is the key because you would have to be outside of time to be able to be everywhere. We also know from science that space, time, and matter all had to be created at the same time. The Bible says in Gen 1:1 “in the beginning (time), God created the heavens (space) and the earth (matter).

[spamman]

It’s not even agreed that we have free will among neuroscientists, and if God knows what we’re going to do he must have a way of knowing and it is in that way that we are predictable. If we are predictable there are causes that determine the predictions, and so we aren’t actually free if our future actions can be known

[nicktmcmenamin]

One thing I've accepted is God put limitations on our minds for a reason. We are not meant to know all that God knows we aren't built for it. We only know what God reveals to us.

[redfishbluefish]

I know my child will steal candy but I will still give them a talking to if she takes the candy without permission. She doesn't get a pass just because I knew she would sneak it prior to her doing it. She still has free will and I still know she will. The punishment will still happen and she knows it but the punishment doesn't stop her because she chooses not to heed the warning of punishment.

[timorean]

Everybody has an idea of what they are going to do tomorrow. If you have a "Quantum" type mind, it's not that you "know" everything, it's that you have conceived every possible outcome.