A lot of words and such little knowledge shown.
I'll strive to improve my word to knowledge ratio. Perhaps I can tell you two facts about ducks? They don't fly and, when provoked, they release ink from an opening near their cloaca.
Let me keep it simple for you.
Yes, please do. I like simple things.
God knowing what you are going to do, when, how and why DOESN'T NEGATE free will.
Wait, I think you're confused. Repeating a statement doesn't prove it. On the other hand, it is quite simple.
WHY?
Yes, that is the question...
Because God is not FORCING you to choose a certain way . YOU and ONLY YOU gets to make those decisions.
The issue isn't whether I'm being forced to decide one way or another - although that's a legitimate topic of conversation too. The issue whether the decisions I do make are decisions at all. If God
knows that I am going to choose to eat a cheeseburger instead of spaghetti and meatballs for dinner and God's knowledge is infalliable then I have no choice to make.
Oh, AND forgive me FOR not RANDOMLY capitalizing the various WORDS in my REPLY.
FREE WILL would only cease if at the critical time of making a decision GOD FORCED YOU TO DO HIS WILL.
If God knows that in half an hour I'm going to choose to go get a burger from In'N'Out instead of eating leftover spaghetti, then at this "critical time" you speak of, can I choose to actually eat spaghetti? And if I can't, because God knows I'm going to choose the burger, then I'm not free to choose the spaghetti after all, am I?
That never happens.
Prove it. Please start by providing a definition of the term "God".
HIM knowing YOUR CHOICE doesn't MEAN THE CHOICE HAS ALREADY BEEN MADE FOR YOU.
I'm sorry to break this to you, but this isn't how debating works. Saying the same thing, in a slightly different way, doesn't qualify as debating and is unlikely to convince anyone.
THIS IS WHAT YOU DON'T or you REFUSE TO UNDERSTAND.
Perhaps you didn't explain it simply enough? Can you try to simplify it some more? I know, it's a pain; please bear with me.
By your logic, GOD can't condemn rapists, murderers and thieves.
By my logic, God is a figment of your imagination. But
if he were real, then by my logic, he could condemn rapists, murderers and thieves all day long, but his condemnation would be, at best, hypocritical, since he knew those people would become rapists, murderers and thieves, and still created them.
There is no sin.
Please provide a definition for the word sin. Please be accurate enough so as to allow everyone who decides to use your definition to unambigiously and deterministically identify whether an action is a sin or not. Please hurry, as I am about to eat shellfish and shave my facial hair. I wouldn't want to sin.
Convenient for non-believers and atheists.
You'd think so, but even though us heathens have whitewashed sin away we still have a lot of dense, irrational religious people to deal with and that's very incovenient. Perhaps you know the type? they are the kind of people who believe that morality boils down to following a book written by sheep-herders and then doing - without thinking - whatever that book says because it is the word of some ethereal entity that has never been seen or heard; they are the kind of people who not only choose to live this way, but seek to impose their ridiculous views on everyone else too.
