So god works through people right? And people have free will right? So did god make everyone with a vision in mind of the choices they were going to make in life?
I have a choice tomorrow.
I can:
A.) Rob a bank
B.) Go to school.
Regardless of the two choices I can only live one reality. Now even though it’s MY choice, how do I know it’s really MY choice? How do I wasn’t MEANT to make a set of choices from the instant god created me?
So are how can I be sure that predestination isn’t real. (NOT SAYING PREDESTINATION AND THE BIBLE ARE AFFILIATED.)
I just find this interesting.
Even if you don’t believe in god, this is still a good thing to consider.
Despite what we think, are we bound to a certain fate regardless of what we think?
And by saying that god didn’t make us knowing what we’d do with our free will, then does that mean god can’t see the future? Then how would he know what people he would work through to make this world a better place? (Atheists Ignore this paragraph.)
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How Is Free Will Possible If Everything Happens For A Reason?
Posted on February 9, 2012.
Not possible !
You haven’t been brainwashed enough. Go back to a church.
Predestination is a paradoxial concept- It exists but you need the free will to arrive at pre-destined situations. You can make a choice: Rob the bank or go to school. Keep the determination to rob the bank, and by the end of the day, you will have robbed a bank. Inevitibility is controlled by the actions of the individual before the situation occurs.
I figured all this out in primary school 🙂
– There are several aspects to your concerns.
1. You do have free will. Every decision is the reaction to several causes (not reasons), not just one. The free will comes from the weight each cause is assigned, and the cost of the resources to address them.
2. You are confusing omniscience with predestination. They are different concepts, neither within the realm of human understanding. Relate it to yourself. You are in the future today, compared to yesterday. You are seeing yesterday’s future. Does your knowledge of your choices you have made since yesterday mean that you had no choice yesterday (predestination)? Or does it simply mean you know the choice you made (omniscience)? So even if there was a god who knew your future, it doesn’t mean that knowledge created your future.
3. There is no god. But if there were, free will would be easier to explain, not harder. The argument against freewill is that every physical reaction has a predictable, natural response. Since human beings obey the laws of physics, it follows that all activity is government by chemistry and physics, not ethics or freewill. If there were a omnipotent god, then that being could supersede all natural laws, and allow humans choice in spite of physical law.
4. Being a believer that nothing supernatural controls our destiny, I still believe there is free will because of the number of variables/causes that contribute to every choice, and the fact that randomness is a known feature of the universe. In other words, at a very basic level, many natural causes can create different outcomes given the identical input.
I know it ! I’ve tried to explain this. In other words, what if the reason is that there is no reason? I’m not saying that is the way it should be, but I would say that if you find out it is true, that for a given event, there is a lack of reason , what I am saying is that you best be findin’ a reason – and quick !
Just saying, “everything happens for a reason” can be a real cop out and defeatist – I’m thinking that people that tend to take charge of situations would instead say, ” sometimes, you have to be the reason”…