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God supposedly knows everything that is to come. He let everything happen. He let the snake into the garden. He knew adam and eve were gonna eat the apple because the snake would make them. He knew everything as soon as he made it all. It is his fault. In fact he has power over everything and anything that happens is due to him making it happen. Hmm how nice of him to MAKE satan trick adam and eve. How nice of him to kill everyone during the flood. Babies and fetus's alike. Great god mhmm.

The snake didnt make them do anything. They had freewill. God gave us freewill so we could love Him. Freewill, by definition implies the potential to sin. B/c we have choosen sin over God, weve seperated ourselves from Him, and if we die like this well be seperated forever. However, God was able to save us, without sacrificing His justice. He did it through Jesus. He was able to pay our fine, so that we could repent and be saved. Its the greatest gift ever given and it would be a shame if wasted

Ok so god is all powerful and knows everything that will happen. So he knew the snake would trick them into eating the apple which he did. God knew they would choose to eat the apple. God knew everything that was going to happen. Agree?

If god is all powerful and has a plan then we dont have free will. And he knows the choices we would make anyways and he could choose to stop us but he wont. If I was a god I wouldnt let anyone do anything that will DAMN THEM TO HELL FOR ALL ETERNITY.

Part I
God created us to love Him. The kind of love God wants requires a choice and thus free will. Free will implies that there is a potenetial to do wrong otherwise it really isnt free will. If we werent able to sin, then that would defeat the whole purpose. However, God has come up with a way to solve this problem, and thats Jesus. Christ died for us so that we could accept Christ and repent and still be with God despite our sin. Its the best gift ever given and it would be a shame if wasted

Part II
As far as free will being impossible with omniscience, think of it this way. When it is raining outside, you know its raining. The fact you know its raining doesn't effect the rain. Its vice versa. God is outside of time. The past, present, and future are all the same to Him. Just as the rain effects our knowldedge, our choices effect God's knowledge, not vice versa. The only difference is that God is outside time. God's knows our choices beforehand, but they are still our choices.

Except if god is all powerful then he controls everything that happens. So we don't have free will.

God's omniscience does not violate free will. For example, if it is raining, and I know it is raining, it is because I see its raining. My knowledge doesn't affect the rain. Its vice versa. That's the way it is with God. Our choices affect God's knowledge. Not vice versa. The main difference is that God is outside time, and hence, the past present and future are all the same to Him. So God is able to see what our future choices are, but they are still our choices.

Glory 2 God! :D

mind boggling

God could've stuck that tree in Edin somewhere else, but I guess creation isn't fun without a few goof ups on the creator's part!