How can God regret if he knows the future?

[Tinker Grey]

Did your god create the space-time continuum or not? If he did, he created the future.

 

[Barney2.0]

Did your god create the space-time continuum or not? If he did, he created the future.

Yes he did, he also created man to have free will, you seem to be implying that God simply is manupilating all of us to do what we do therefore he’s already judged us which isn’t the case.

 

[Tinker Grey]

Yes he did, he also created man to have free will, you seem to be implying that God simply is manupilating all of us to do what we do therefore he’s already judged us which isn’t the case.

If your god created the space-time continuum, he created the future. If he created the future, it is a fait accompli. You have no choices; you were created doing every action you will ever do. There is no free will. It is an illusion. Of course, he's not manipulating you; the word doesn't apply when he created you doing everything you will ever do. You are judged; the conclusion has been reached (not really, since omniscience merely knows and never evaluates); it's over; it's done. It's a dead parrot.

A timeless god cannot do anything. An omniscient god can not decide anything. And if a timeless god can do something and did create the space-time continuum, did he do it half way or completely? Your future is not merely known. It is created and unchangeable.

Or perhaps such god concepts are incoherent.

 

[Godistruth1]

We know our children might commit sins as human beings and yet that doesn't stop anyone from having children. We do feel sorrow when our children do wrong things but we already know before they were born that they will commit wrongs as all human beings do.

Yet we don't regret this decision because we knew they would do sin. Here God regretted creating humans. And the reason our children would sin is never a deciding point to have children. Nobody thinks about it

 

[Godistruth1]

God at first appreciated creation, and later corrected it

Why did it need correction? Why did God not correct it in the first place?

 

[Godistruth1]

Everything God does fits in perfectly with his creation.

But he would not regret his decision if he did everything right!

 

[2PhiloVoid]

But he would not regret his decision if he did everything right!

How do you know that?

 

[GospelS]

Yet we don't regret this decision because we knew they would do sin. Here God regretted creating humans. And the reason our children would sin is never a deciding point to have children.

It was not the deciding point for God as well. So He did not regret His decision, since it wasn't not a deciding point of His decision in the first place. And please don't try to add your own terms into the scripture. Regretting a decision is different from regretting of executing a decision.

 

[Godistruth1]

How do you know that?

Isn't it common sense? If i do everything right i have no reason to regret my decisions

 

[Godistruth1]

It was not the deciding point for God as well. So He did not regret His decision, since its not a deciding point of His decision in the first place. And please don't try to add your own terms into the scripture. Regretting a decision is different from regretting of executing His decision.

You are mixing two different things here. Its pretty simple. Nobody regrets his decision if the decisions that person made were not wrong.

 

[2PhiloVoid]

Isn't it common sense? If i do everything right i have no reason to regret my decisions

No, it's not common sense. In fact, it's not even uncommon sense. It's just an assumption on your own part at the present moment.

 

[GospelS]

You are mixing two different things here. Its pretty simple. Nobody regrets his decision if the decisions that person made were not wrong.

Having children is not a wrong thing and neither the decision to have children is a wrong thing. Nobody regrets that, God didn't either. You are adding your own interpretations into the scripture.

 

[2PhiloVoid]

Isn't it common sense? If i do everything right i have no reason to regret my decisions

Do you see the indefinite implications in your statement that are questionable? If not, let me highlight them:

If i do everything right i have no reason to regret my decisions.​

So, if there's something to pray about, I'd suggest you pray about the extent to which you, as a single person, can with any absolute assurance assume that you in fact understand what you're saying, even on just a human level, not to mention on the level of the mind of the Divine.

 

[GospelS]

You are mixing two different things here.

I clarified what you are mixing but it's okay. I can understand why you seem to confuse yourself.

 

[GospelS]

Yet we don't regret this decision because we knew they would do sin.

Any normal human being would regret of creating when their children do horrible sins, yet a parent doesn't think they did a wrong thing because having children is not a wrong thing and neither the decision to have children is a wrong thing.

 

[GoldenKingGaze]

Why did it need correction? Why did God not correct it in the first place?

Free will gives God real loving friends. But some choose sin. That is not up to God. The angels asked if they could judge us, but they were told they could not, for they would uproot the wheat with the tares. Judgment is coming, after all hear the Gospel, which in Noah's day they could not. But today the Gospel is preached and many repent free willing.

God foreknew Lucifer would fall. God started to get sin over and done with.

 

[Clizby WampusCat]

We know our children might commit sins as human beings and yet that doesn't stop anyone from having children. We do feel sorrow when our children do wrong things but we already know before they were born that they will commit wrongs as all human beings do.

But we did not setup the system of sin in the first place. If we want kids we know they will do wrong things the only other option is to not have kids. God on the other hand set up the system of sin and punishment. He knew some would sin and have to be punished for eternity yet he set the system up anyway. I would regret that too.

 

[GospelS]

But we did not setup the system of sin in the first place. If we want kids we know they will do wrong things the only other option is to not have kids. God on the other hand set up the system of sin and punishment. He knew some would sin and have to be punished for eternity yet he set the system up anyway. I would regret that too.

That wouldn't stop anyone from having kids. God neither. Because choosing love and having children is good; no matter He would regret also knowing it all, He would still choose love and children.

 

[Tinker Grey]

That wouldn't stop anyone from having kids. God neither. Because choosing love and having children is good; and God chose love and children.

... and then roast them forever and ever and ever and ...

 

[GospelS]

... and then roast them forever and ever and ever and ...

That is what some humans chose for themselves, so they will have it.