To approach this from a religious perspective, if there is a God who knows what your choices are all already going to be, or the very thoughts that you are going to have next, or knows where everything, and every single particle/cell/molecule/person/place/thing is going to be, and always what it is going to be doing next, and knows all of this from beginning to end, and knew this all from the very beginning, etc, then I don't see how you can't conclude that the universe is not deterministic, and that there is no such thing as free will, etc.
That's easy. Knowledge has nothing to do with free will. God knows what you will do with your free will. Omniscience has nothing to do with your will. Knows is not the same things as determines.
I see the problem here. Our minds cannot fully grasp a being like God. Nor understand Him. Our minds are limited. God is not. Let's take your argument and look at it a different way. You said he knows all those things about you. That simply means he knows you so well that he knows what you are going to do.
We all have habits. Things we do. Some of those habits are not taught, but innate in us. But often those habits can be broken. You can stop doing them if you really choose with your free will to do so.
And the other thing you need to try and follow here, from a religious perspective, etc, is that this was not Jesus, or God in the OT, etc. Because if it is/was God in the OT, then a lot of people were lying about Him, and didn't actually hear His voice, or know Him, or what He was actually saying, or was this one was truly like, etc. Because if He is as He is described, then He was not always fully omniscient, etc. And that fact is pretty obvious when you take off the religious blinders,
That's absolutely false my friend. Jesus was the God of the OT. He was the creator.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him; and without him was not anything made that hath been made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in the darkness; and the darkness apprehended it not. He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world knew him not. He came unto his own, and they that were his own received him not. But as many as received him, to them gave he the right to become children of God, even to them that believe on his name: And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld his glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father), full of grace and truth.
Bible Gateway passage: John 1:1, John 1:2, John 1:3, John 1:4, John 1:5, John 1:10, John 1:11, John 1:12, John 1:14 - American Standard Version
Just because you don't understand it us not the fault of God. It's you. And the truth is you don't have to understand it. You just have to believe it. Right now on this little blue plant you do not see things clearly. But someday you will.
For we know in part, and we prophesy in part; but when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part shall be done away. When I was a child, I spake as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child: now that I am become a man, I have put away childish things. For now we see in a mirror, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know fully even as also I was fully known.
Bible Gateway passage: 1 Corinthians 13:9, 1 Corinthians 13:10, 1 Corinthians 13:11, 1 Corinthians 13:12 - American Standard Version
Jesus reasoned this, and was part of why he had to die, etc. He took God in the Ow's wrath upon himself fully, etc, and after that, God in the OT changed in how he would now deal with men who were now believers in Jesus Christ from that point onward, etc. And He became God the Holy Spirit, or Spirit of Jesus Christ, in the NT, and after that, etc.
You are partially correct. There is no part of why Christ had to die. He had to die to be a propituation. He died to save us from our sin. Period. The spirit was sent by God and Jesus was God.
Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It is expedient for you that I go away; for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I go, I will send him unto you. And he, when he is come, will convict the world in respect of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: of sin, because they believe not on me; of righteousness, because I go to the Father, and ye behold me no more; Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he shall guide you into all the truth: for he shall not speak from himself; but what things soever he shall hear, these shall he speak: and he shall declare unto you the things that are to come. He shall glorify me: for he shall take of mine, and shall declare it unto you. All things whatsoever the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he taketh of mine, and shall declare it unto you. A little while, and ye behold me no more; and again a little while, and ye shall see me.
Bible Gateway passage: John 16:7, John 16:8, John 16:9, John 16:10, John 16:13, John 16:14, John 16:15, John 16:16 - American Standard Version
Dud you catch that? Jesus will sent the Holy Spirit. Jesus go to the Father. He diliniates the difference between the tge Father and the HS. The apostles in their letters tell us numerous times that God sent the HS.
Being therefore by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he hath poured forth this, which ye see and hear.
Being therefore by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he hath poured forth this, which ye see and hear.
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And we are witnesses of these things; and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God hath given to them that obey him.
And we are witnesses of these things; and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God hath given to them that obey him.
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I'm sorry, but there is no where in scripture that states the Father became the HS.
And certainly have no idea where you have gotten your theology from. Scripture proclaims that God is the same yesterday, today and forever.
He proclaimed himself,For I the Lord do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not consumed.
Wherein God, being minded to show more abundantly unto the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath; that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us: which we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and stedfast and entering into that which is within the veil;
Bible Gateway passage: Hebrews 6:17, Hebrews 6:18, Hebrews 6:19 - American Standard Version
It's impossible for God to lie. And since God spoke to us through the prophets they also did not lie for they were inspired by God to write what they did.
