God's omniscience

In this blog, I will be focusing on another omni attribute of the Christian God. Mainly, I will be explaining why God's omniscience does not violate our free will.

Why does God being all knowing and having the ability to know your choices, and future violate free will? The reason why I don't think it does, is because free will is simply the ability to make free choices. It doesn't matter if God knows those choices or not. We still have the free choice, to do whatever we desire.

Now, God knowing the future and knows the choice you will make is where some like to make there case on how there is a logical problem. They think it is as if God had predestined that even to happen. God being all knowing, knew you would do a certain thing before you would do it, so it's like it had to happen to matter what. But this is not the case. God being all knowing does indeed know our choice before we make it. But still, that doesn't stop us from making that free choice!

If Adam and Eve chose not to eat the forbidden fruit, then they wouldn't of, and this world would still probably be perfect. But they just so happen to eat the fruit instead. Of course God knew it would happen, simply because, it happened! The sin really was committed, and the reason why God knew about it is because Adam and Eve would eventually sin. It wasn't necessarily predestined. It could of been, but I only used this as an example.

Conclusion: God simply knowing what would happen does not mean we are unable to make free choices. Because truly, we do make free choices all day everyday.