Free will also implies that you have the choice of excepting the notion of weather there is a God or Not. No game just of way of freeing the brain to have any thought it wants. You have free will to ask silly questions,you silly wrabbit.

Free will is a gift not a game. A gift is not a gamble either; it’s a sure thing. The power of change in the gift is one of the most beautiful and powerful gifts humanity has been given. It's an invitation to seek God and be with Him. We have the choice - unwrap the gift or leave it alone. In our struggle to learn and to find the right path the gift is always there for us to accept. It's never taken away and the invitation it carries stands forever. Imagine being given the gift of free will. The greatest gift may or may not be accepted and only time will tell what we do with it. Perhaps we chose to come here to learn and had already made an agreement with God to seek Him in this way. This is a memory we may have forgotten but God never forgets. :-)

Ah, the free will argument atheists use against God's existence. However, it relies on God being omnipotent with concern to the future as well as to the past and present, which, btw, is not necessarily a Biblical concept. First of all, omniscience without choice contradicts omnipotence. In other words, God must have the choice to know about the future, His knowledge must be conditioned on His looking. He can't be all-powerful if He doesn't have the choice to NOT know future events, therefore His knowledge must be conditioned on His choosing to know it. Thus, while He has the ABILITY to see the future, that doesn't mean He chooses to avail Himself of it. Does the Bible support such a concept? What the Bible does say is that "the ways of man are before the lord, and He pondereth all His goings," (Proverbs 5:21) "He looketh unto the ends of the earth, and seeth under the whole heaven," (Job 28:24), "Hell and destruction are before the Lord: how much more then the hearts of the children of men?," (Proverbs 15:11), and "In whom [God] are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge." It clearly says God can know the future and sees all that is presently happening, but does not say God is omniscient in that He must know the future. It may surprise some to hear that while the Bible calls God omnipotent (Revelation 19:6) it nowhere calls Him omniscient. As shown by Psalm 14:2, God knows because He CHOOSES to look. His knowledge is conditioned on His looking. In Psalms 14:2 it says God looked down from heaven to see if any seek after Him and after righteousness. Therefore, His knowledge is conditioned on His choosing to know it. The Bible obviously says God can know the future but if His knowledge of the present depends on His choosing to see it, it stands to reason that so is His knowledge of the future.

You got the game in the wrong place. Your question should read like....If the game of religion has a God that knows all,who could "free will" set me free?

By God knowing who will end in heaven or hell, the past and future, doesn't mean that He has forced His will onto anyone. We have been given the choice to accept His will or not. That is using are free will that God has given to everyone of us. So the question turns to "ARE YOU GOING TO HEAVEN OR HELL?"

The main concept of free will and God's power to look into the future people dont understand because with their human logical mind they can only think that one of them is possible at a time.But the Truth is both exist at the same time without any interruption because both are interlinked.Nothing exists in the world without God's knowledge,but it doesnt mean that we dont have the free will.God's knows us better than we ourselves do and he knows exactly what we are gonna do with our free will in the future.Nothing is hidden to him because he is our creator.

Ummm...possibly because we have been given our own minds to change our course of life?

If such a Being did exist, it would be possible that they don't simply see the one thread of time - It could be possible that they can extrapolate all the way down the line of every branch of every choice.

he knows the will for our life whether or not we follow it is our choice. all he wants is us to (on our own) follow God.

I believe that you have the "free will" to do as you please. You could choose to do something or not do it. He doesn't make you do one or the other. I think that he knows you so well that he knows if you are going to do it or not (before you even think about it). This is just my understanding.

Predicting one's fate is not deciding it.

Just because he sees all, doesn't mean he tells us. We can still choose what our actions will be.

The two things can be easily confused. God's omniscience does not dictate what you will do it predicts it very precisely. Let's come down to our own level for illustration. Let's say you spend some time with an experienced store detective watching customers on the cctv and he tells you watch that guy he's going try to steal something. You ask him whether he knows about the guy and he says he's never seen him before. When that guy actually pockets something you might be tempted to think that the store detective has some supernatural powers which he used to either affect the guy’s free will or to see into the future. You ask him to explain and he tells you he's just built up several profiles of visitors to the store which tell him pretty reliably how the visitors are going to behave while in the store. Of course God's knowledge of how we’re going to behave in this life is far superior, one might say it's perfect.

If God can transcend time he can see what people do before they do it. But it doesn't mean he caused them to do it.

Many of the other answerers apparently don't see the contradiction between predictability and free will. They say things like "just becase God knows the future doesn't mean he controls it". But this misses the point that if we had free will, then our actions would be unpredictable in principle...by God or anyone else. Said another way, predictability would mean that our wills are (for whatever reason) never free to do anything other than what was predicted in the first place...so they aren't actually free. The whole concept of free will requires that our wills are not the product of causal factors, but of "something else" outside the realm of cause-and-effect. Some refer to this "something else" as "the soul". I personally think that free will is an illusion. Our minds fool us after the fact into thinking that we were responsible for willing things to happen. In reality, our actions and thoughts are simply the end result of an enormously complicated combination of environmental factors, both historical and of the moment. There is some psychological research that suggests this is the case: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Libet#The_implications_of_Libet.27s_experiments

There is no such thing as free will where religion is concerned. Religion demands conformity, not independence.

Maybe Understanding more about Gods Essence / Attributes will help? Enjoy! John THE ATTRIBUTES OF GOD A. There are three major characteristics of the attributes of God. The attributes of God are eternal, functional, and directional. We can illustrate these characteristics of the attributes of God using the attribute of divine love. 1. The attributes of God are eternal. a. There never was a time when each member of the Trinity did not possess all of the divine attributes. b. Divine love is one of the eternal attributes of God. (1) Divine love is a part of divine integrity. Divine love is one of three divine attributes found in the integrity of God. (2) The love of God therefore must be compatible with the absolute attributes of divine essence, and it is. (3) Because God is absolute righteousness (perfect virtue and integrity), His divine love is totally devoid of any sin, any human good, altruism, or a source of any human reaction like bitterness, guilt, fear, or other sins of emotion. (4) Since God is perfect and eternal love, He does not fall in love. Nor can God's love be patronized by human works or compromised by any form of legalism or Christian activism. (5) God's love cannot be complicated by ignorance or absurdities, silliness or emotion. The spiritual life is thinking doctrine. (6) Since divine love is a part of the integrity of God, it functions in compatibility with divine righteousness and justice. Therefore God's love is infinitely greater than we can imagine or think, because it is based on God's righteousness and justice. (7) No matter what happens to the believer in time from the function of his self-determination, whether good or bad decisions, there is no greater security than the personal love of God for each one of us. God's love did the most for us in salvation. If God's love did the most for us in salvation, it can now do only more than the most. Therefore, His love keeps us forever. 2. The attributes of God are functional. The attributes of God function in action. Function is the action of the divine attributes. Functional means action or capacity for operation; the kind of action or activity of the love of God. Capacity and capability of operation of the love of God is what is meant by functional. The attributes of God are functional under three subcategories. a. The function of the love of God is personal toward each member of the Godhead. The action of divine love functions in personal love toward the other members of the Trinity. Personal love in God is His attitude toward perfect righteousness in the other members of the Trinity and toward every creature having the imputed righteousness of God. b. The function of the love of God is also impersonal toward all creatures without perfect righteousness. Jn 3:16, "For God loved the world so much that He gave His uniquely-born Son, that anyone who believes in Him shall never perish but have eternal life." c. The function of the love of God is also personal toward Himself in divine self-esteem. God loves His own righteousness and always has. This is the basis for spiritual self-esteem in the unique spiritual life of the Church Age. Divine self-esteem requires divine love as the subject and divine righteousness as the object. As you grow in grace you develop the only self-esteem which counts--the self-esteem based on humility or spiritual self-esteem. 3. The attributes of God are directional. Direction is the object of the divine attributes. The attributes of God must have a direction toward which they function. Anything that functions should have a direction. When the attributes of God function, they must do so in a direction. Direction is the result of the function of God's attributes. Direction also has three subcategories: the point of responsibility, the point of contact, and the point of reference. The doctrine of divine impersonal love is part of the functional category of the divine attribute and not part of the directional category of divine attributes. a. The point of responsibility in the attributes of God is the righteousness of God directed toward all sins of the human race. Responsibility denotes something within one's power to control. The integrity of God has the eternal capacity expressed in the righteousness of God in eternity past to know the knowable, including sin, and to program one PROM chip in the computer of divine decrees with all human sins of both cognizance and ignorance, along with the act of volition in every case that produces the sin. God the Father had the responsibility of knowing all sins of human history and programming them into the divine decrees and then imputing them to Christ on the Cross. Jesus Christ took the responsibility to do something about those sins. He made four decisions in eternity past: unlimited substitutionary atonement (He had to become true humanity), propitiation, reconciliation, and redemption. b. The point of contact in the attributes of God is the justice of God toward the unbeliever in salvation and toward the spiritual believer in divine blessing and toward the carnal believer in divine discipline. Contact with the unbeliever is our Lord's substitutionary atonement on the Cross, by which spiritually dead mankind entered into association with God through faith alone in Christ alone. The justice of God did something about judging our sins on the Cross, so that the point of contact for the unbeliever is faith alone in Christ alone. The filling of the Spirit is the basic function of the spiritual life which follows salvation. The justice of God administers to the carnal believer family punishment for grieving and quenching the Holy Spirit. Heb 12:6, "Whom the Lord loves, He punishes, and He skins alive with a whip every son whom He receives." Punishment comes from the justice of God as our point of contact but the love of God is our point of reference after rebound. You are being loved by God when you are being punished by God. c. The point of reference in the attributes of God for the unique spiritual life of the Church Age is the love of God. Reference means to direct attention to something important, something of personal interest. Reference means recourse for the purpose of information. Reference means to endorse a person or course of action. The point of reference from the love of God directs attention to something important--the postsalvation spiritual life of the Church Age believer. The point of reference from the love of God provides something of personal interest--New Testament Bible doctrine. Point of reference means recourse or access to the infallible word of God from accurate Bible teaching for the purpose of information about the unique spiritual life of the Church Age. The point of reference endorses a course of action related to virtue-love and metabolization of Bible doctrine. The point of reference is the love of God, the sponsorer of the greatest life that ever existed. Since the love of God is the point of reference for the postsalvation spiritual life, it is imperative that the love of God be involved in our punishment when we are carnal. Whether we are carnal or spiritual God's personal love for us does not change. ABSOLUTE ATTRIBUTES: SPIRITUALITY, INFINITY, PERFECTION A. Spirituality: God's Life and Personality. 1. The true theistic concept of the universe is that the universe is composed of material and immaterial, having its source from God. 2. Matter is material, but God is immaterial, Jn 4:24, in contrast to all living creatures who are both material and immaterial, 2 Cor 4:7, 16. 3. Spirituality implies life. God is life, Jer 10:10; 1 Thes 1:9. God does not possess life as we do, but He is life, He lives. All life is from Him, but not of Him (as pantheism claims). God's life is eternal life, having no beginning and no end. God is eternal. Technically we have everlasting life. 4. The eternal life of God is imparted through Jesus Christ to all who believe in Him (Christ). Jn 3:36, 16, 5:24, 10:10, 14:6, 20:31; 1 Jn 5:11-12. 5. God is a person, Ex 3:14. personality connotes both self- consciousness and self-determination (God has a plan). 6. God recognizes Himself to be a person and as such He always acts rationally and logically. 7. Animals are conscious but not self-conscious. They have determination, but not self-determination. 8. Man is a person possessing to a limited degree self-consciousness and self-determination. But God is infinite personality with infinite self-consciousness and self-determination. 9. His absolute will and perfection characterize His motivation, design and execution of all that He does, Eph 1:9, 11. 10. God is to an absolute degree all that constitutes personality. He is Himself. He knows Himself to be beyond comparison with any other being. He has perfect, eternal personality. B. Infinity: Self-existence, Immutability, Unity. 1. God invented space and time and exists outside of these. By infinity is meant that God is without boundary or limitation. These, united with His perfection, are part of His character. 2. God can't tempt, be tempted, or sin. 3. God cannot be complicated with ignorance, absurdities or fantasies. God doesn't care for emotion. 4. Though God may be self-limited as in the case of the incarnate Christ in the Hypostatic Union under kenosis, His infinity is intensive rather than extensive. [God's personality is infinite and omnipresent but not in everything (extensive), as says pantheism]. 5. God has infinite energy and power, Ps 8:3. 6. Infinity characterizes all that God does: His integrity, love, veracity. 7. The divine motive is for His own pleasure and glory, but not His own self-praise. God recognizes His glory and claims it in the interest of absolute truth. Creatures are designed for His glorification. God's glory is the sum total of His attributes. 8. Because of this fact all things exist Ex 33:18; Ps 19:1; Isa 6:3; Mt 6:13; Acts 7:2; Rom 1:23, 9:23; Heb 1:3; 1 Pet 4:14. God's glory was before all creation, Jn 17:5. 9. Infinity involves three characteristics: self-existence, immutability, and unity or consistency. a. Self-existence. God exists eternally unsustained by Himself or by any other source. God can't be better or worse because of His character. JHWH means "self-existing One." God's existence is unalterable. God is the cause of all existence outside of Himself but there is no cause for Himself. b. Immutability. God is unchanging. He cannot change, cannot be better or worse than He is. The problem is that anthropomorphic representations of God in the Bible are misunderstood. They really represent the perfect attitude of God toward variations in man or history in human language, so that man can understand God's policy. God doesn't hate, get angry, change His mind, have hands or eyes. When man changes God seems to change, but in reality God is remaining consistent with His own essence. This can be illustrated by a weather vane, which changes direction depending on the direction of the wind, yet it is still a weather vane. Immutability is consistent with God's freedom and His ceaseless activity. God is free to do anything according to His own essence. Therefore, salvation is not God's second best, but a part of His eternal purpose. c. Unity. This means that all of the attributes of God are consistent with each other and there is never a compromise. When God blesses us His unity is not destroyed. "JHWH our Elohim is one JHWH," Deut 6:4. There is one perfect, infinite absolute Spirit, says Isa 44:6; Jn 5:44, 17:3; 1 Cor 8:4; 1 Tim 1:17. Unity applies only to divine essence, not to the persons of the Trinity. Your relationship with God is secure because it is based on God's consistency. C. Perfection: Truth, Love, Integrity. The intellect, character and affections of God are perfect. Divine perfection involves His truth, love, and integrity, which is perfect righteousness and justice. 1. Truth. This is not merely veracity toward other persons, but God is true to Himself, His own essence, His character. Man says, "I speak the truth," but God says, "I am the truth," Jn 14:6. God does not hold the truth as being acquired. He is the truth from eternity past. In God every truth in every form of knowledge dwells in absoluteness. This accounts for the dogmatism of the Word of God. This attribute guarantees the genuineness of divine revelation, Deut 32:4; 1 Jn 5:20; Jn 6:32, 15:1; Heb 8:2. Bible doctrine, or truth, is the expression of His integrity. God's truth is directed toward Himself and revealed to us. God is never unfaithful to Himself. 2. Love. God is motivated by His love. Love is His problem solving device. Like all of divine attributes, love belongs to God's being. God is and always was love regardless of having an object to love. This is perfect love whether there is an occasion to bestow it or not, 1 Jn 4:8. Subjectively God loves His own integrity; objectively He loves the other members of the Trinity. God can only love God or another being with perfect righteousness. 3. Integrity. God is absolute integrity from all eternity past, Ex 15:11, 19:10-16; Isa 6:3. Man's relationship to God comes on the basis of His justice. We must adjust to the justice of God. This integrity is required of men, 2 Cor 7:1; 1 Thes 3:13, 4:7. God's integrity is maintained by His will. It is part of His unchangeable self. It includes perfect righteousness and justice, which is His perfection. RELATIVE ATTRIBUTES A. There are three categories of relative attributes: 1. Those related to time and space - eternity and immensity. 2. Those related to creation - omnipresence, omniscience, and omnipotence. 3. Those related to moral beings - veracity and faithfulness, mercy and goodness, and righteousness and justice. B. Relative Attributes Related to Time and Space. 1. Eternity. a. Eternity applied to God means He has always existed and always will exist. He has always existed totally apart from time. b. God is not subject to time, because He is the cause of time, Deut 32:40; Ps 90:2, 102:27; 1 Cor 2:7; Eph 1:4; 1 Tim 1:17. c. Both time and space, though without substance, are both objects of His creation. d. God is not in time but time is in God; He is the origin of time. e. God transcends all creation including time, therefore, has always existed. f. God is logical, therefore, He does not need to be chronological as we do, Rom 4:17. g. Time, which is finite, has both succession and duration. h. Eternity, which is infinite, has duration only. Time is a line of procedure, while eternity is a circle reaching into infinity. 2. Immensity. a. God is not subject to space. Like time, God created, invented, and caused space to exist. Rom 8:29. b. God cannot be more or less than what He is. c. In relation to space God is both imminent (in space) and transcendent (outside of space). d. Omnipresence is the term descriptive of space in relationship to God. Immensity is the term descriptive of God's relationship to space. e. Since God is the creator of space, if space were defined in boundaries, God would exceed those boundaries to infinity. C. Relative Attributes Related to Creation. 1. Omnipresence. a. God is personally present everywhere. The whole of God is in every place. b. This is not pantheism, since it denies the person of God. c. God, in the total of His essence, is without diffusion, expansion, multiplication, or division, and penetrates and fills the universe, Ps 139:7-8; Jer 23:23-24; Acts 17:27. d. God is also free to be local, as in the mountain with Moses, or in the Holy of Holies above the mercy seat. He is free to become flesh and dwell among us, Jn 1:14. 2. Omniscience. a. God is all wise. He knows perfectly and eternally all that is knowable, whether actual or possible. Ps 33:13-15, 139:2, 147:4; Mt 6:8, 10:29-30; Heb 4:3; Acts 15:8; Mal 3:16; Isa 46:9-10, 44:28. b. There are three factors of divine knowledge: (1) It is eternal, Acts 15:18. (2) It is incomprehensible, Rom 11:33. (3) It is wise, Eph 3:10. c. Every detail of creation and history is in God's mind at all times. d. Therefore the future is as perspicuous to God as the past. e. God foreknows the future. Since events take place according to His councils, He foreknows. But God's foreknowledge is not predetermination! He knows but doesn't interfere with your volition. f. God foreknows the functions of every free will. He foreknows what will be the choice of other beings. g. Likewise He may determine their choice by gracious influence through Bible doctrine, but He doesn't coerce. h. God's knowledge is not subject to development, reasoning, regretting, foreboding, or depression. 3. Omnipotence. a. God is all powerful, infinitely able to do all things which are the objects of His power within the range of His holy character or essence. However, He will not make right wrong, nor will He act foolishly, Isa 44:24; 2 Cor 4:6; Eph 1:19-21, 3:20; Heb 1:3. He will not abuse His power and compromise His justice. b. If God is limited at any time it is because of a self-limitation consistent with His own essence. God can do all He wills to do, but He may not will to do all He can. D. Relative Attributes Related to Moral Beings. 1. Veracity and Faithfulness. a. God is infinite perfection in truth and faithfulness. God's truth is expressed to us in Bible doctrine. b. God honors doctrine in the soul of the believer with spiritual growth and blessing. c. God provides divine logistical support to the believer during his life regardless of how good or bad he is. 2. Mercy and Goodness. a. Mercy is grace in action. Mercy is infinite love in action toward the objects of divine affection, the expression of divine personal love toward the believer. b. God's judgments are perfect, demanding perfect righteousness. So God is not only absolute good in contrast to the policy of Satan which is evil, but He is also justice and righteousness. 3. Justice and Righteousness. a. This is infinite integrity acting toward others. God's perfect righteousness is perfect, therefore demands perfect righteousness. His judgments are perfect, therefore demanding perfection. Perfect righteousness demands Bible doctrine in the soul to understand His essence. b. Justice administers the penalty which righteousness demands. c. In perfect righteousness the divine love for integrity is revealed. In perfect righteousness divine love exists, but in justice divine love is expressed. d. In justice the divine hatred for sin is revealed. Justice demands justice. e. In the function of the essence of God divine perfect righteousness and justice always precede divine love. God cannot love personally that which is not perfect. f. God is not arbitrary in any way. Integrity demands integrity. perfect righteousness demands perfect righteousness. Justice demands justice. God's nature cannot change, we must change. He must demand integrity and punish both sin and evil as long as He is what He is. g. His penalties are not vindictive, but vindicating to His essence and person. With unchangeable sin and evil there is unchangeable condemnation and judgment. But in grace God provided through salvation all that He demands. And through Bible doctrine and the rebound technique, sin is handled for the believer. h. In relation to Himself, His personality and spirituality are supreme. But in relation to man, His integrity is supreme. E. Other Characteristics of God. 1. The freedom of God. God must be consistent with Himself. He cannot compromise His essence. The incarnation was the only way the free will of God could provide salvation for mankind. 2. The affection of God. These are anthropopathisms. God repents, Gen 6:6; loves and hates, Rom 9:13; gets angry, Rom 1:18; has scorn, Ps 2:4; has benevolence, Rom 8:32; has compassion, Lam 3:33. God is absolutely happy in Himself with absolute freedom from fear, anxiety, regret, foreboding, or annoyance. 3. The authority of God. a. God's absolute authority is over possible things and actual things. b. Over possible things God is sovereign in that He leaves them as only possible and not actual, or has destined them to be yet future. c. In this realm He renders no account to others but acts in conformity with His own perfect character. God isn't responsible to anyone. d. In relation to existing things God is the final and absolute authority, Ps 145:14; Mt 20:15; 1 Tim 6:15. e. The authority of God over creatures rests upon three facts: (1) Because God is the creator. This authority extends to every creature and to all things. However, it is restricted by His own perfection. The right to save or punish belongs to God, but He restricts it by His own essence. The right to discipline or reward the believer belongs to God but is restricted by His own essence. God is compelled to discipline the reversionist under the influence of evil, just as He is compelled to reward and bless the believer with maximum Bible doctrine in the soul. This is consistent with His own essence and plan. The creator's absolute and sovereign ownership of all things is contrasted with secondary rights which men recognize within the sphere of their own relationship. That is, the cattle, gold, silver all belong to God, Ps 50:10, even though men recognize among themselves the private ownership of property. This authority of God rests on His infinite perfection. (2) Because of redemption. God has purchased us; we are bought with a price. (3) Because of Bible doctrine. The authority of God is related to the amount of Bible doctrine in your soul. God's authority is paramount with the mature believer. The more metabolized doctrine you possess, the more authority God has over you. F. God's Essence Box. SOVEREIGNTY OMNISCIENCE RIGHTEOUSNESS OMNIPRESENCE JUSTICE OMNIPOTENCE LOVE IMMUTABILITY ETERNAL LIFE VERACITY. G. Summary of Divine Justice. 1. God is fair; it is impossible for God to be unfair. 2. Justice administers the penalty which perfect righteousness demands. Perfect righteousness and justice always go together, Deut 32:4; 2 Chr 19:7; Job 37:23; Ps 19:9, 50:6, 58:11, 89:14; Isa 45:21; Rom 3:26, 12:3; Heb 10:30-31. 3. Divine justice is portrayed in salvation. And the issue in salvation is divine justice accepted or rejected. 4. You get divine justice sooner or later. You get it sooner by believing in Christ. You get it later by the lake of fire. 5. Sin is not the issue in salvation, justice is. Because of propitiation, God is now free to pardon and justify sinful humanity who appropriates the saving grace of God by faith in Christ. God is free to save those who believe because of His justice. 6. The basis for the unbeliever's indictment at the Last Judgment is evil and human good, not sin, Rev 20:12-15. Evil produces more good than sin. Evil is Satan's policy. Justice prevailed at the cross and will again prevail at the Last Judgment. 

If I knew you well enough to know that you would choose chocolate cake over cherry cake would that rob you of your free will? Of course not, right? So, how is it any different for God?

The question assumes a God who knows what our actions will be. If you don't believe that, then free will is easy to understand.

Faith

I don't believe we have free will. By free will, I mean the unlimited ability to do what I want, when I want and carry it out. For example, I can't choose to jump to the moon. I do believe we have real choice. One reason can flow along this argument: God is perfectly just, He will hold us all accountable on Judgment Day for our actions. Therefore our choices must be real for us to be held accountable for.

No One knows where it started and where its endz…am not an atheist and no one can be a atheist coz there is actually nothing we can protest against. its just one damn life … u live it or u dunk it …no one knows wer u gona go..jus live ya life …see there are lots of questions which doesn’t carry any answer ..if u still wana fuk with it then .it will kill ya like a cancer…that’s a small part of rap I wanted to sponsor , to y’all morons runin behind nuthin... so stick the badge with the name called LOOSER… ha ha …

i liked the way it was explaind in the movie the matrix reloaded when Neo goes to see the Oracle and she offers him a candy. Neo: "do you already know if i'm gonna take it?" Oracle: "i wouldnt be much of an Oracle if i didn't" Neo: "Then how am I meant to make a choice?" Oracle: "because you're not here to make a choice, you've already made it, you're here to understand why you've made it."

You cant write God and expect the reader to understand which God you are writing about. Especially when you use the pronoun He...when everyone knows there are She God's existing in the minds of men and women. This is a nonsense question as it does not define or specify which God you are writing about.

well... I think the future is a perception because if god were to look into the future, even if he did not look, it would be still be predetermined meaning that there is no free will which is opposite to what the bible teaches. if one has ultimate power, then he is able to manipulate the present to control the future as one pleases. if god sees into the future or not then there is no free will. we live in a world of chance and uncertainty which is the only free will humans have.it's impossible to know what's going to happen tomorrow because of uncertainty and chance. even chance affects god because he did not know that devil would turn against him...

The answer is that although many faiths preach "predestination" - meaning, your life is already fully planned, and you cannot escape fate, the reality is that God has given each of us complete power to make our own choices and decisions from the very beginning - even before this life - even to the point of us choosing before this life to come to earth and be tested [but that is another story]. He merely carried out the process for our own wills to do as we pleased by making an earth for us to come here. In ALL things, He does not interfere with our rights of free choice. Nevertheless, He knows of our choices beforehand - because He knows us that well, even though we are completely our own agents in choice, ALL things are ever present before His face, both, past, present and future, as He resides in Eternity ... nd in eternity there IS no past, present and future. ALL things the WE call "present" or "future" are actually present in the eternities. Our limitation records only 'the now' that we live in and understand: His records eternity all at the same instant for it is ever-present in Heaven.

This is the age old question of predestination versus free will. Depending on which sect/denomination of Christianity you ask you can get an answer going either way. I don't believe in God, but here is a completely logical parable to answer this question: . Bob has a test in Calculus class, and on the day of the test he decides not to go, simply because he knew all the questions and all the answers to the test beforehand. The next day, Bob goes to class and is suprised to find out he received a failing mark on his test. Bob exclaims, "But I knew all the questions and all the answers, I can tell them to you right now." The teacher responds, "So did I, but you didn't take the test." . What is life without a little test? Free will is overrated anyway. Who cares if some cosmic being is controlling everything? The illusion of free will is more than enough for me, and if you think about it you will probably agree.

Its really not hard to understand. Just cuz he KNOWS... Doesnt mean he decided it...or that they didnt choose it. They still experienced things freely...and through choice...he knew what was happening, but didnt decide it. ...they could have changed their ways at any point, but he knows they never will or will... free will has nothing to do with whether he knows or not. I could see in the future and SEE if you are going to heaven or hell...but that doesnt mean cuz I know I MADE you choose where you were going. You still did that.

We were given free will to make choices, but we were destined to make those choices. If the choices were made for us then there wouldn't be the free will.

This is perfect qustion why now if god criet you and put you in hell or haven "because he knows every thing you'll ask why and see this unfair so he criate you and give you the free will and he 'll prove from your actions if your going to hell or haven !

To make you biotches beg!

Not just one book, but countless books have been written on Free Will....most by extremely knowledgable men.There is a very strong case that free will, as it is commonly understood, does not exist at all. Ron White, the comedian, in his stand-up routine on getting thrown out of a bar in NYC makes a statement about when the cops asked him for a statement. He said, "At that point I had the right to remain silent.....but I didnt have the ability". You may have the right to free will, but you may not have the ability to make free choices. However, If you want to understand the concept, you won't find it in the brief answers given here, most of which conflict.

Why the free will "game"? It may have been said already, but the Bible was written in a way that accomodates the limitations of human intellect.No one will be saved against their will, we can say that much. Can anyone share the mind of God? Even without any professed belief in/about God, we must wrestle with the concept of eternity(past or future), for instance. That's mind blowing, but most either accept it or go crazy in contemplation of it; rarely is it called a "game". I'll say one thing about eternity: you may accept it, but if you can explain it, you are God. If you can't explain it, then you have no business telling the rest of us there is no God, and you have no business calling His method of salvation a "game". Frankly, If God and His ways were easily understood and could be justified by the human intellect, then there would be no comfort in a faith in God.