Dose God have free will?
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No. How can an imaginary being have free will? There is no god so you will just have to accept:\n\n1. Mortality\n2. Responsibility\n3. Science
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of course..GOD can do ANYTHING he wants to
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our creator is the one and only God. he gave us free will because he loves us. the devil tricks us into committing sins, we are not forced.
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According to most beliefs, God is a He. But i won't bash you for saying She.\n\nNo, i believe God gave us free will and a choice to say whatever we want. But i do believe in Karma -- if you curse God, then maybe next time you pray for God to come to your aid, He won't.
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Free will begins only when you start  making decisions for your self. I don't know why you would associate free will or the absence thereof to being born.
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Assuming for the sake of argument that the Christian mythology is true, of course it's not a fair judging. Just because God is more powerful than we are and made us doesn't automatically give him the right to tell me what to do. Granting us free will is philosophically identical to granting us control over our own being. It's irrelevant that he made us. It's just like the government, just because it's big and has all the guns doesn't give it any actual authority over us other than what it takes by force (in God's case, threats of hell).
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Do you know what will happen 5 minutes from now? Neither do I. God does, but he's not saying. So in 5 minutes when I make a choice, God will know what choice I'll make before I make ti - but until I make the choice I won't know. That's free will and God's omniscience.
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Free will.  Allowing us to choose to serve him with a willing heart, without forcing anyone to accept his sovereignty.
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I believe we are all given free will.  God's desire is for us to have a relationship with him and to follow him.  However, the Bible says that every inclination of man's heart is evil. (Gen. 6:5)  As we know Him more, study His Word, pray, and through the Holy Spirit, our hearts can change.  However, we will never be "perfect".  This is why He sent His son, Jesus.  \n\nI do not believe God "makes" bad things happen.  But I do believe he can use those things to teach us, draw us back to Him, and to draw those who don't know Him at all to Him.\n\nI have a 2 year old son.  Yesterday, I was walking with him and he fell and hurt his knee.  I was right there, but I didn't catch him before he hit the ground.  But, I picked him up, took care of him, kissed him and held him while he cried.  That's what our Father does for us.  This world (until Christ's return) belongs to Satan, but God is always with us.
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Wow, talk about looking at yourself.  That was me not too long ago.  The problem is that God can only interfere on a limited basis with out obscuring "free will".  The hard truth is that rapists and murderers have free will also.  It's complicated, and hard to justify. but I guess the better questions would be, why didn't  we do something about it?
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First thing you have to understand is that God has never interfered in our lives. He has came to a lot of us a gave us a task, but he has never interfered. \n\nMoses could have said no, to Gods request. Yes, it was only a request. God has given us all requests, but only a few of us have actually sat down and opened our hearts to listen to what he has to say.\n\nNow as to the answer to your question, it speaks of "free will" a few times in the Bible.\n\nGod gave us free will, so he can not interefere in our affairs. This doesn't mean that he can't give us advice or ask us to do something for him though.
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There is a much simpler answer.  Actaully it's more of a question: Does God know the future?  I'd have to say no.\n\nGod knowing the future takes away free will.  If God knows what I will do tomorrow, can I do something different?  Do I have a choice? Am I anything more than a robot.\n\nThere are numerous examples in the Bible that God does not know the future.  Two that stand out are:\n\n"'Do not lay a hand on the boy,' he said. 'Do not do anything to him. Now I know that you fear God, because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son.'" -Gen 22:12\n\nIf God knew the future, he would have known that Abraham would not hold Issac back.  \n\nGenesis 18:16-33.  Abraham pleading with the Lord for Sodom.  Eventally God says he will not destroy Sodom if he finds 10 righteous people there.  He has actually been talked down from 50.  Would he not have just said something like, "There are only 3 righteous people in Sodom," and ended the discussion?  why did he waste time if he already knew the number he would find?
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This is an excellent question. If God created life and He is all powerful, why do people go to hell for disobeying his commands? Surely God would create us with a pre-ordained destiny if he is all powerful, hence no freedom of choice. Either God created us to go to hell or he is not all powerful, in which case he is not really God.\n\nAll our decisions are formed by our genetic code and past experiences, it is God who decides this. The laws of nature (including quantum mechanics) are controlled by God. In that sense there is no 'I'. \n\nTherefore, either God does not exist and free will does,\nor God exists and some people were destined from the dawn of time to disobey Him. Which leads us to conclude that if hell really does exist, then it is not the fault of the person but a fault of God that sent him there. He is chastising himself. This again invalidates the law of God being all powerful.\n\nIf freedom of choice does not exist, and God does, then judgement can not. If God doesn't hold judgement over his own creation, he can not be all powerful.\n\nWe must have free choice for God to exist. But God controls the life we have! Its a circular argument.\n\nDoes God not exist, then?\n\nHis ultimate wisdom allows us not to know the truth.
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Agree with you. And adding: he already knows what will happen, so where does free will fit in ?
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Theologians have struggled with this question over the years.  Does omnipotence and foreknowledge conflict with free will?  In my opinion, yes it does.\n\nHowever, there are numerous philosophical theories which try to work their way around this problem.  Some of them involve rejecting or altering various views of what it means to be all knowing. One of the better ones basically states:  Future knowledge consists of knowing that A will happen or will not happen.  God does not know that A happens until the moment at which A actually occurs.  In this manner god knows every possible action but does not have foreknowledge.  This allows god to be all knowing and humans to have free will.  However, it does not allow god to know the future and seems to conflict greatly with the idea that the bible contains prophecy.\n\nThe most popular approach right now is to place god outside of time as illustrated in this diagram:  http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y191/venus1982/GodOutsideTime.jpg\nThe idea is that time is a human experience and that god does not experience time.  In this way, god sees all of existance past, present, and future at the same time. There are numerous issues with this idea as well, but they would take too long to describe in detail.
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If the destiny is already written then where is the free will.\n\nWe make our own destiny.
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So you seem to be arguing for a purely deterministic illusion of free will?  Free will as an emergent property of  a net mass of neurons?  Is this an argument about "nature vs. nurture"? \n\nI'm not sure what your argument or question is, actually.  But I would say that your initial question is false, or at least unsupported. If you are saying that my illusion of free will is god's gift or something, then I disagree.\n\nAtheists generally tend to be more rational about most things.