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Default RE: Free will and predestiny - 04-24-2006, 02:06 AM

>I know that if you drink a whole bottle of vodo you will get
>drunk. You, however, make the decision to drink it or not.
>Just because God knows what will happen does not mean that you
>have no choice. You have the options and you make the choice.
>God knows what choice you will make (being all-knowing) but
>the decision is still yours. The responsibility for your life
>is in your hands. Don't try to put your life on auto-pilot
>because you think that "The Graph is Drawn".

I think this is a very poor analogy. If it were this simple, philosophers and theologists wouldn't have spent centuries arguing about free will and predestiny. It is a paradox. I have to agree with Atlian on this one. What you pointed out is consequences, not omniscience. God knows that if you drink 5 vodka bottles you will be drunk. However, you want to tell me if you choose not to God was caught unaware as if he was watching a soap? I understand, at the end of the day it is MY choice, God didn't make me drink 5 vodkas, however, God knew even before I was born that I was going to drink 5 vodkas, but he made me anyway.

If God knows that you won't accept him and that hence you will go to hell even before you are born, and he still creates you KNOWINg very well you will go to hell because of the choices you WILL make, then aren't you predestined? If not, and he didnt know, then He is not Omniscient.
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