Mind-blow: Our choices are not pre-determined, but God knows

[happydolphin]

IIIIITHE1IIIII said:

happydolphin said:

That's the thing.

1. He knows all the characteristics about us, but it doesn't mean he can predict our choices. If the bible is cohesive, then it stands true that we actually have unpredictable free will, no matter how much God knows about us, he couldn't predict our actions.

2. He knows because he was there, not because he predicted it.

It's not "Just God lols", it's a set of either-ors. You can't say we have free will and say that God predicted our actions, that's pure bs. So that's the kind of thought process that needs to be used, not "it's God lols".

 

You suggested otherwise in the OP.

Anyway, it sounds like you are arguing that he is not almighty. An all-knowing, almighty, omniscient being is not supposed to have limitations of any sort. Saying that God "can't" do something is saying that he is not almighty.

That, too, suggests that the Bible is not cohesive.

Actually, if i did then I failed miserably, because that was the whole secret to the revelation. His omniscience doesn't require his ability to predict our actions (since there is no determinism with free-will).

I am not arguing that he is not almighty, but simply that if he created us with free-will, then it is purely impossible for Him to control any outcome but his own (for instance, sending Jesus), that does not make him not almighty, since no matter what we do, he will always be able to surpass it. He is not able to control us, because he decided not to be able to, in order to give us free will. It was his own design.

So if I force myself to not be able to control something, does that make me not almighty?