Register | Sign In


Understanding through Discussion


EvC Forum active members: 64 (9164 total)
5 online now:
Newest Member: ChatGPT
Post Volume: Total: 916,871 Year: 4,128/9,624 Month: 999/974 Week: 326/286 Day: 47/40 Hour: 1/1


Thread  Details

Email This Thread
Newer Topic | Older Topic
  
Author Topic:   Free will, or is it?
Phat
Member
Posts: 18348
From: Denver,Colorado USA
Joined: 12-30-2003
Member Rating: 1.0


Message 119 of 163 (456313)
02-17-2008 4:42 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by Logic
02-11-2008 11:35 PM


Open Theism
Logic writes:
If god gave us free will, then how can he know the out come of our choices, thus how can prophecies be made?
There is an interesting belief known as Open Theism. Open Theism basically says that God has chosen to allow human decisions to be a part of the eventual future reality.
Wiki writes:
We believe that God could have known every event of the future had God decided to create a fully determined universe. However, in our view, God decided to create beings with inter deterministic freedom which implies that God chose to create a universe in which the future is not entirely knowable, even for God. For many open theists, the “future” is not a present reality ” it does not exist ” and God knows reality as it is.
In essence, we become the decisions that we make. The onus is on us to actualize our future rather than on God to have predetermined an unchangeable future.

This message is a reply to:
 Message 1 by Logic, posted 02-11-2008 11:35 PM Logic has not replied

  
Newer Topic | Older Topic
Jump to:


Copyright 2001-2023 by EvC Forum, All Rights Reserved

™ Version 4.2
Innovative software from Qwixotic © 2024