God and free will paradox

Is free will a paradox? Does God have free will? What does it mean to reconcile God with free will? These arguments are deeply concerned with the implications of predestination.

How is it possible for God to know everything we are going to do, including all our choices, while we still can have free will? If all events are eventually related to God and are His Acts, if nothing occurs in the universe save by the Will of God , then how could man still enjoy a free will ?

This paradox is more complicated than the paradox of foreknowledge and free will. It is also a paradox that all those who believe in an Omnipotent God face. The Free Will paradox ? In such a scenario, one person will get their free will through meanwhile the other person will get their free will denied. Many may have landed on the free will side of the conundrum, believing that we do make choices of our own volition.

Some on the other side, believing that free will is an illusion. Others, seeing validity in both sides of the paradox, may remain baffled or uncertain. Over the years I have revisited this paradox many times.

Alternatively, one can redefine free will as acting without coercion, which does not preclude foreknowledge of the outcomes at all. Thus Augustine argued that God could not do anything or create any situation that woul in effect, make God not God. Mackie tried to resolve the paradox by distinguishing between first-order omnipotence (unlimited power to act) and second-order omnipotence (unlimited power to determine what powers to act things shall have). It is free when it is liberated from preferring what is infinitely less preferable than Go and from choosing what will lead to destruction.

Packer is too good a biblical scholar to think there ever was such a thing as free will taught in the scripture. It seems as though the problem of evil and the concept of free will within Christian thinking are very closely intertwined. Let's say someone does something to you against your will and there is nothing you could have done to prevent it.

Is that the one where: if God exists, and is omniscient, how can free will be possible? Most modern believers in Libertarian free will believe in a supernatural God that gave them this freedom. Compatibilists believe the world is deterministic—meaning that outcomes are ultimately determined by a set of initial conditions combined with the laws of physics (which likely include randomness). This is the first video in a series going over various paradoxes concerning the Christian god.

This one is one that I happened to think of and have not fully. A paradox is an enigma like, He that loses his life shall find it, and he that would save his life shall lose it (Mark 8:35). This at first seems contradictory but once you understand Jesus’ teaching about picking up your cross and dying to yourself now in order to follow Him and gain the resurrection of the body later it makes sense.

Free Will and God A deeper problem with the above argument is the fact that Christians have their own and potentially more serious problem with the existence of free will : there is a contradiction between the existence of free will and the idea of a god that has perfect knowledge of the future. A being with free will , given two options A and B, can freely choose between A and B. God knows I will choose A.

God is omniscient (all-knowing). God cannot be wrong, since an omniscient being cannot have false knowledge. From and I will choose A and cannot choose B. From and omniscience and free will cannot co-exist. And we must accept this paradox along with the equally baffling paradox that Jesus of Nazareth was both God and Man, and yet One Person.

If there was a paradox in His person, it is not surprising that we find one in His work as well.