A response to the Freewill vs. Predetermined Destiny argument
I'm sure you're familiar with the argument.... free will and an omniscient God cannot coexist.
I recieved this response:
"Now onto freewill - the point we are missing is this... We, as people are bound/limited by time. We do not live forever on this earth and we are often in the habit of hurrying from place to place, always watching the clocks as time ticks away. But, truly, time is a measure of something that never ends. God has always been and always will be. He is not limited by time... He started what we know as time on the earth when He formed and created the world. He started things perfectly and we turned away from Him.
Now here's the freewill part, having always been and always being - GOD knows from the beginning to the end of our lives on earth. He can see it all.
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If you ask god he will guide you to make the right decisions? So we should expect that Christians would be better off than Non-Christians..that's not the case.
God foreknew that most of the people who have ever lived would not choose him, but ran his plan anyways? Was he not all-powerful enough to change this plan that consists of billions and billions of good people being eternally tortured? Was he not all-loving enough to just not run the plan if this is what he foreknew it to be?
If I were in the helicopter and saw the end of the parade and most of the people were getting shot in the head as they crossed the end point..I would stop the parade or do something about it. If I saw innocent people getting snipered at any point in the parade I would stop the parade or do something about that as well.
Thanks alot.