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Originally Posted by August
Then we wouldn't be free at all. I can play a video game in indestructible mode but that doesn't prove that i'm any good at it. No, Gods gift to us is life in full real mode. I wouldn't want it any other way.
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Is god omniscient? How is it possible to know the future if it hasn't been determined? If it's been determined, how can free will exist?
How can we have free will when
brain tumors can turn people to pedophilia?
And isn't it interesting that free will wasn't such a big concern in biblical times, when god would meddle in human affairs at the drop of a hat to aid or punish his favorite tribe of goat herders. Only now that god has fallen silent and appears to be taking an extended vacation does free will become sacrosanct (and the go-to answer for why the world sucks/why the need for faith). And now, with the crimes of the twentieth century still fresh in our memory, does that excuse seem all the more unsatisfactory.