Grey Acumen said:
I'm pointing out that the existence of god does not negate free will. Actually, if you want to look at it in that direction, which actually is far more reasonable, God exists outside of time, hence every choice that we'll ever make has both already happened and not happened within the same observable point by god. So to him, he already knows what choices we will make, but that doesn't negate free will because we still exist INSIDE of time. And I didn't misinterprete you at all on your last comment, I simply didn't understand your point at all, hence all the question marks as I asked what point you were trying to make. |
Anyway, maybe I should have reiterated this before, but:
He created the universe, having complete perfect control over what he was creating at that time. Having, as he does, complete perfect knowledge, foresight, understanding, and awareness, he knew at that moment of creation every sin that would ever be committed by the free-willed individuals he was going to cause the creation of. He chose to go ahead and not create the universe differently.
Therefore, your God (assuming He exists) ought to get equal credit for every deed GOOD OR BAD that anyone has ever done or will ever do for all time. God is (indirectly) responsible for every sin ever.
I don't argue at all that we have no free will. I argue that will is determined by our minds plus the information he get from the world to make decisions with. If God knows the world perfectly, and he knows our minds perfectly, and he has perfect wisdom, then God ought to be able to perfectly predict our freely chosen actions. All the rest follows. We have been manipulated into making the choices we make but WE are still the ones that make them.
Therefore, we each deserve credit and bear responsibility for the things we freely choose to do; but so does God because he created the circumstances for them. Everything is our fault; everything is God's fault.
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