Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Can free will and an all-knowing God exist together?

I thought of this recently. If god is all knowing, then he has known what our actions will be for trillions of years. So he knew,for instance, that a rainforest tree would be chopped. So if we have free will, we can choose the chop it or not,right? But since he knows that we are going to do this, (chop down the tree), then no matter what, we will have to chop it down, even if we have free will. We have no other choice since it is known it will happen.

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