Free will vs Omniscience

Hi Kader, It is easy to grasp if you have at least a 5th grade education.God Bless,

Hi Phat, Why can't God have a plan for you?I thought He died on the cross so everyone could have eternal life.So God had a plan that everyone could be saved.But God did not determine that everyone would follow His plan because he gave everyone the freewill to choose whether to accept the full free pardon He offered to mankind.He also gave you the freewill to follow His plan for your life or not to follow His plan.Could God force you to do His will? Yes, But He exercised His freewill and allowed you to choose the way you would live as well as what you would do about accepting His free full pardon He offered to you and everyone else.Obama just offered a full pardon to 4 people who were in jail. They accepted that offer and were released from jail. Had they not accepted the offer of a pardon they would still be in jail as the Supreme Court has ruled 2 times that a pardon can not be forced upon anyone.God Bless,

Hi Asgara, Humans live in something we call time. Mankind took God's definition of a day found in Genesis 1:5 and divided the light portion and night portion we observe as the earth rotates in relation to the sun into 24 hours, composed of 60 minutes in each hour of which each minute is composed of 60 seconds of which each is composed of 1.000 ms of which each is composed of 1,000 microseconds of which each is composed of 1,000 ns.God is not constrained by time as He lives in an eternal now. Which means He sees the beginning and the end and everything in between at the same time.So God sees your birth and death at the same time as well as every decision you made during your lifetime. He just does not have anything to do with your choices.Now if you have been born again and turned your life over to Him, He will try to influence each decision you make through the Holy Spirit which has sealed your eternal destiny when you were born again.God Bless,

Hi 1.61803, Actually you only have one choice concerning where you will spend eternity as one was made for you a long time ago by the man who was formed from the dust of the ground in Genesis 2:7 which disobeyed God and ate of the fruit he had been commanded not to eat.

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John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

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3:17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

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3:18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

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Other than to believe that God is (Jesus was God in human flesh) and will do what He said He will do is the only choice that matters as far as to where your eternal existence will be.All other choices you make during your lifetime here on earth are not relevant to where you spend eternity.Since God gave mankind freewill to make this choice for ourselves we also have the freewill to choose to do anything or believe anything we desire too.God Bless,Edited by ICANT, : correct quote

Hi Phat, Think again.You are anyone who has ever been born can make any decision except one, to do, say, or believe anything they desire too.The one decision you can not make is a decision to spend eternity with the devil and his angels in the lake of fire. That decision has already been made for you by the man who was formed from the dust of the ground in Genesis 2:7. He broke God's command concerning eating of the fruit and disobeyed God. Due to that disobedience everyone who has ever been born or will be born was sold into slavery to the devil. So everyone belongs to the devil and will spend eternity with their father the devil unless they accept the free full pardon offered by God to mankind.God does not make any decision for any of mankind.God Bless,

Hi Ringo, The eight year old not being able to understand it is the reason I used a 5th grader.An eleven year old can understand it.God Bless,

Hi jar, jar I have believed in God since I was 7 years old and in 1949 at age 9 I turned my life and eternal destiny over to His keeping. I have lived to be 75 years old believing in and trusting God to take care of me here on earth and throughout all eternity. I have never missed a meal, I have never been unemployed in my lifetime until I retired and am doing more now than before I retired. I have a wonderful partner in life that God provided for me whom I met 60 years ago and have been married to for the past 58 years. God has allowed me to help many people during my lifetime teaching many a trade they could make a living at, as well as many other thing He has allowed me to do. In other words my life could not have been any better as I have enjoyed my life along with the nature God has allowed me to enjoy.Now if I was to die today can you tell me one thing I have missed in my life that I would have had if I had not believed God and trusted Him for everything.In other words jar if I died today and I simply went to a grave in which I would know nothing from the time I drew my last breath what have I missed out on in my life here on earth?God Bless,

Hi Phat, Just because you believe it does not make it so.God created mankind male and female your parents were descendants of those people.Your parents created you not God.God Bless,

Hi jar Are you sure?God Bless,

Hi jar, Enoch and Elijah haven't died yet.Mankind was created an eternal being and will live somewhere eternally.Those who are born again of the Spirit will live with God their father eternally all others will live with their father the devil.God Bless,

Hi jar,You are free to exercise your freewill and call God's But just because you want to believe something does not make it so. You can act like Cain did all you want. Cain did not do things God's way and God did not accept Cain's way. God does not have to accept the gospel according to jar either.God Bless,

Hi Ringo, I would think that for a eleven year old to understand it there would have to be someone that could explain it where the eleven year old could understand it.God Bless,

Hi Faith,It sure looks like everyone has hijacked this thread and totally forgot about it being about foreknowledge. Everyone can have foreknowledge of where they will spend eternity. Everyone that has ever been born is condemned to the lake of fire because of the sin of one man. Because one man chose to disobey God and eat the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil sin entered the universe and every human being was sold into slavery by that first man. Thus every one is under the penalty of sin and will spend eternity in the lake of fire.Unless they exercise their free will and chose to accept the free full pardon that has been offered to mankind by God for their sins.Now as to the foreknowledge of God. I will use myself as an example.I was born into this world in 1939 and as soon as I knew good and evil as the man in the garden did I became responsible for my sin debt.2 months before my 10th birthday I accepted God's pardon for my debt that I could not pay. Because of that acceptance I have eternal life.Before Genesis 1:1 God viewed the end: This tells me before God created the universe He viewed the end and everything in between. He saw every time I disobeyed Him as well as every time I obeyed Him. And yet He was willing to come down to the earth and suffer that I might be reunited with Him to spend eternity with Him just because He loved me.He knew this about every person who has ever been born and was still willing to die in our place.Now the problem every one here has is they are locked in a box called time which is nothing but and invention of mankind to measure distance between events.God is not locked in time as time does not exist. There is only eternity. God still sees the beginning and the end and every thing in between at the same moment just as He did prior to Genesis 1:1.If I die before my wife does I will get to heaven 1 nano second before she does regardless of how many years she spends on earth after my death. Time does not exist in eternity, it is one great big now.So God knowing every decision I made during my existence on earth had nothing to do with what decision I made. He just saw the movie and knew what was going to happen next. Because for the measure of the distance between the beginning and the end as far as God is concerned we can not come up with a number small enough to measure that distance.God Bless,

Hi Paulk, What specific prophecy of Isaiah 7 are you referring too?God Bless,