kasey simpson wrote:
I don't follow that. IF God knows everything, then God would see which choice we made. That is not the same as saying He made us.Good point my friend, but yes. If we have free will, God knows there are two paths we can walk, i.e. you can buy the house or not. So the vcr tape can show the choices God puts before us but not the out come.
Also, there is usally more than one choice in any goven situation. Why make the assumption it is God that gives us the choices? Life gives us choices.
Perhaps God makes us, puts us here, and lets us get on with it, and it is NOT all driected personally by God! The logivcal conslucion to this way of thinking is that God causes everything to happen. Like child abuse, murders, accidents, disease, war etc.
we have free will always. The choice is not 'given' by God. i think you may have misunderstood. What God acn see the CHOICE she made. he idn't give her that choice or force to make that choice. He just sees what she did, of her own volition.Now if a woman becomes pregnant she has two choices, but if God knows she is going to abort, why give her the choice?
Free will is not that simple anyway.(and this is just as applicable to believers as non) Choices can only be made when we are well informed and able to make to make choices. Ignorance of all the choices available, limits our free will, as does emotional disturbance, mental illness, and all sorts of things. Many people neevr come to undertsand that what they think and believe(and as a result, mostly, what they feel) is a choice.
bw
colin
