pt.1: that which I think

It is really the combination of predestination and free will.
Here is how it goes:

1. God is Omnipotent, Infinite, Eternal and Unchanging. The Alpha and the Omega.

a. Being Omnipotent, Infinite, Eternal and Unchanging, God knows ALL. EVERYTHING. All that has ever happened, is happening now and will ever happen in the future. God knows every possible combination of every event, every possible action you/I will make, even the ones we think about but never do.

2. God made us in his/her image and gave us FreeWill

a. Having FreeWill, we decide and take actions based on our own choice… we decide whether we do Wrong or Right, additionally we can change our ways in order to be forgiven, gain salvation and go to heaven.

The problem arises when we look closer at the two definitions: i.e., can FreeWill and a supreme, eternal being co-exist? Here is a question to help us better understand the problem: Can you, by your actions, surprise God? The way I see it is there are two possible answers:

1. YES, you can surprise God (Example: A sinner sees the error of his ways, changes and devotes his life to god’s work, helping the sick, feeding the hungry, etc. ). But if this is true that God doesn’t know everything… and doesn’t have all the answers. But this opens up a huge can of worms, I mean if God doesn’t know all the answers, does he/she really have a great plan or is everything in the world random. Or maybe God knows some things and not everything… but this answer kinda sucks too dosen’t it?

2. NO, you cannot surprise God (Example: God has a 2 list, one with all the names of people going to heaven and one for all the people going to hell. Since god is eternal and has seen the end of time, he know for sure the lists are correct). But if god already has two lists and my name is already on one of them then I am not making any choices. Events and environments will conspire (divine intervention?) to force me to take the actions that will eventually lead me to one of the two divine lists. But is this answer is true the not only does FreeWill not exists…none of us can be blamed for our actions… divine intervention FORCED us to take the actions we take (extreme example: the priest that molests young boys had no choice… he had a mental illness).

Either way you look at it… something has to give… or can both be right… I don’t thing so…

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