God knows everything, whatever happens it is because of his direct control no matter how "good" or "bad" we may judge them. God knows all things and he knows what it will take for me to do something such as perform an act of sin or be obedient to Him.
God knows that if he places an object in front of me what it will take for me to touch it or to resist touching it. Maybe I need a person I respect to physically tell me to touch it or not to touch it. Maybe I need to feel a desire toward the object and so some part of the environment is changed to allow me to desire that item... for example a glass a water on a hot day, vs a glass a water on a rainy day. Whatever it is God knows all the scenarios and how I will react in each scenario.
You may argue saying that in the end we make the choice but what happens when the environment that we make the choice in is out of our control no matter how much we think it is in our control. For example if a leaf falls from a tree, then a bird swoops down and picks up the leaf for a nest, then a cat jumps at the bird, then a car serves to misses the cat and hits a transformer, the power goes out on the street... etc... etc. Think of all the chain reactions that can occur from a little thing like the falling of a leaf. Something that small may even cause an earth quake on the other side of earth. Maybe that sounds absurd to you but God would know what it would take for something like that to happen... he would know the exact precise time for a leaf to fall and the exact precise way and spot to create a domino effect that causes a major thing.
What if one day a man is sitting on a park bench then all of a sudden catches the scent of a flower that reminds him of some happy memory that causes him to sit on the bench longer that causes him to feel happier and in the end causes him not to murder a man on the street that night out of desperation. That may sound absurd again but for someone hanging on the edge of mental stability something as little as smelling a flower may be enough to get him thinking straight again.
Well think of the billions of smells that flowers make and billions of leaves that fall or billions upon billions of small insignificant things happening around us all the time. Who controls them? We may be able to prove each item scientifically but if you are a christian than you believe at the very least God is one who pushed the first domino and God is the one who set up the dominos in the first place. And God knows the end before the beginning happened. He knows every countless scenario and what needs to be done to have them happen.
God knew what it would take for eve not to take the fruit and he knew what it would take for adam also not to take it. But even with all his knowledge he still placed the tree in the middle of the garden and allowed them to partake of anything they wanted... but maybe that day the flowers smelt a certain way or the food they normally ate tasted a little off leading them to the center of the garden where the fall of man happened.
Is there free will... or are we just pawns in a game of chess blinded by own limitations and literally just blowing in the wind as things happen.
God knows that if he places an object in front of me what it will take for me to touch it or to resist touching it. Maybe I need a person I respect to physically tell me to touch it or not to touch it. Maybe I need to feel a desire toward the object and so some part of the environment is changed to allow me to desire that item... for example a glass a water on a hot day, vs a glass a water on a rainy day. Whatever it is God knows all the scenarios and how I will react in each scenario.
You may argue saying that in the end we make the choice but what happens when the environment that we make the choice in is out of our control no matter how much we think it is in our control. For example if a leaf falls from a tree, then a bird swoops down and picks up the leaf for a nest, then a cat jumps at the bird, then a car serves to misses the cat and hits a transformer, the power goes out on the street... etc... etc. Think of all the chain reactions that can occur from a little thing like the falling of a leaf. Something that small may even cause an earth quake on the other side of earth. Maybe that sounds absurd to you but God would know what it would take for something like that to happen... he would know the exact precise time for a leaf to fall and the exact precise way and spot to create a domino effect that causes a major thing.
What if one day a man is sitting on a park bench then all of a sudden catches the scent of a flower that reminds him of some happy memory that causes him to sit on the bench longer that causes him to feel happier and in the end causes him not to murder a man on the street that night out of desperation. That may sound absurd again but for someone hanging on the edge of mental stability something as little as smelling a flower may be enough to get him thinking straight again.
Well think of the billions of smells that flowers make and billions of leaves that fall or billions upon billions of small insignificant things happening around us all the time. Who controls them? We may be able to prove each item scientifically but if you are a christian than you believe at the very least God is one who pushed the first domino and God is the one who set up the dominos in the first place. And God knows the end before the beginning happened. He knows every countless scenario and what needs to be done to have them happen.
God knew what it would take for eve not to take the fruit and he knew what it would take for adam also not to take it. But even with all his knowledge he still placed the tree in the middle of the garden and allowed them to partake of anything they wanted... but maybe that day the flowers smelt a certain way or the food they normally ate tasted a little off leading them to the center of the garden where the fall of man happened.
Is there free will... or are we just pawns in a game of chess blinded by own limitations and literally just blowing in the wind as things happen.
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