Monday, June 9, 2008

The dilemma of free will and an omniscient God

For the life of me I can not understand the reason behind it all!

If God created us out of love, so why all the suffering? And how can we be free to choose if our actions were already pre-determined? An omniscient God knows what happened, what's happening and what will happen.

Ah, so you may say that God has the knowledge of our actions, but has no control over them. In this case, he's not omnipotent and lacks the most essential of Godly ingredients.

The modern theologians' explanation that God's choice to be inherent omniscient, as opposed to total omniscient is laughable. This is almost like a hide and seek game, where God asks you to go hide and despite the fact that God knows where you will be hiding, he chooses to partially cover his eyes, so that he can still see you through his fingers!!!

The other laughable argument is the hypothesis that we don't know what God has pre-determined for us, so in a way we are still free to choose from the options available to us. This is almost like me saying that our ignorance of the spheric earth at some stage of our history proves that the earth was flat!!!!

Another argument to explain the dilemma is that God stands outside
time, and therefore can know everything free agents do, since He does not know these facts "in advance", he knows them before they are even conceived and long after the actions have occurred. The free agent's future actions therefore remain contingent to himself and others in linear time but are logically necessary to God on account of His infallibly accurate all-encompassing view. This was the solution offered by Thomas Aquinas.

The above explanation suggests that God stands outside of the time and therefore can not enter the realm of our relative linear time and space, so that he may be eternal and absolute. Of course this theory runs the risk of comprising God's
alleged omnipresent status.

Let's examine the Adam and Eve story in light of the above dilemma. It seems very obvious to me that God knew what Adam and Eve would eat from the tree, thus the trigger of all mayhem we live in today. Did God have poor Adam and Eve set up to fulfil his pre-determined will of creating humanity on earth for the ultimate test? How can God then be any different from Satan? Or is Satan God's alter ego, when he switches to the dark side?

And if God pre-existed everything then he must have created Satan at some stage. He must have then known that Satan would turn sour and try to corrupt humanity until the end of days. Therefore, with the knowledge and design of the future, God did create evil! And if God created evil, then he must also possess the quality. This probably explains his sadistic tendencies that are very obvious when reading the old testament or the Quranic hell-fire verses.

let's face it, the idea of an omniscient God is in direct contradiction with our free will and goodness on earth for that matter.

God has tricked us into entertaining him, since his spirit was floating in the dark universe in complete boredom. Even yet a better explanation, we were too scared of death we have made ourselves eternal, even if it meant an everlasting life on the BBQ.

All_Brains