Does God already know our future, why would it say that he desires men to decide things (verse below)?
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It's that pesky free will issue again.
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God knows what is best.  He will answer your prayers as he sees fit.  It may be difficult for you to understand why he made the decision he did.  But he has a reason for all things. in my life he made choices for me that i didn't agree with but looking back now i understand.
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No one knows but God itself. We can only speculate. To procreate, to tend to the earth (which we are doing a horrible job at) to serve him only. They say he is a jealous god.
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That's for God to decide.
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God is full of surprises to us.  In our 3 dimensional world, we can't begin to fathom the wonders and surprises of God.  Maybe billions of years in the future, after we have travelled the universe, we will have enough knowledge of God to predict  God's intentions.   I doubt if we'll ever know enough to predict God's actions.
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The case of free will vs. predestination has everything to do with whose eyes you look through. Yes, because God dwell in eternity and sees the end from the beginning, He already knows the outcome of your decision. He looks at the earth's timeline, then chooses those who choose Him. However, to have true children and not robots, God gave us a free will to choose. We can choose to love God, we can choose to hate Him, or we can choose to exchange the concept of God for only what we can see within our puny science. If free will truly did not exist, God would provide a world with only one choice and provide tons of evidence to MAKE you believe. But He does not do that. He provides just enough evidence to allow you to think beyond the physical and into the eternal. But you must decide for yourself. But do not be surprised if God knows your decision the moment you make it. \n\nYes, God sees our life as a done deal. Yet, we ourselves do have free will to choose. It would be like I could go back in time, meet with George Lucas while attending USC film class. I would know everything about what he would write and the companies he would start. Does he have freewill to write Star Wars? Yes. Would my knowledge change the fact that Darth Vader will be Luke Skywalker's dad? No. It's a done deal because I am not bound by time. \n\nSo what is the big deal about free will? Well, those of us with children understand that there is a big difference between programming our computers to wake you up in the morning with "good-morning father-I-love-you" and having your little son or daughter jump on your bed at the crack of dawn yelling "Good morning daddy! I love you!" The Almighty God has a myriad of angels proclaiming "Holy, holy, holy"--but they have seen Him, so it is easy. Think what it means to God, having NOT seen Him, yet lifting your arms and proclaim, "Good morning Lord! I love you!" \n\nBlessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, to the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved. In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace. Ephesians 1
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Just like it says in the Bible. God chose the words that, through the Holy Spirit, men were inspired to write and God meant every single one of them to be there.\n\nIt is how God intended that we should understand everthing that He intends for us to know, nothing more, nothing less. Accept it all for what it is, the Word of God.
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I believe it means "If God wills it," or "In the will of God."\n\nOne could say that anytime, but especially when discussing future plans, hopes, or intentions.\n\nWHY we say it is because we realize that the future, or the outcome of our plans isn't up to us. I believe it is also said  in the hope that God will favor our plans or intentions.\n\nWhat is your opinion?
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Let me give you something to think about. \n\nAccording to the Bible, God is all knowing, right? \n\nWhen he told Adam & Eve, "Do whatever you want, but don't eat fruit from that tree," he knew that Adam & Eve would be snacking on that fruit in due time. How do I know this? God is all knowing. \n\nSo, if God is all knowing, and he knew they'd eat from the tree, why was he so ticked off? HE KNEW THEY'D EAT FROM THE TREE.\n\nEither God is one angry, irrational, and illogical being, or he's not all knowing. If he's not all knowing, what other flaws does he have? \n\nConsider the Garden of Eden as allegory, and that changes the dynamic of the question. Given a choice between a blissful but ignorant life, or a difficult but knowledgeable life, I'd choose knowledge. However, I would really kick myself for not staying dumb and happy. Human nature, what can you do? \n\n(The Matrix movies are a great example of choosing Eden or choosing reality. Overall, I think humans want to know the truth of things.)
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He may know what we are going to do with our lives or what might be the choices we'll make but we don't, so our free will is to conitue to choose.\nGL and GQ Thanks\n\nGod is not what you imagine or what you think you understand.  If you understand you have failed.  ~Saint Augustine\n\n\nPerhaps history is a thing that would stop happening if God held His breath, or could be imagined as turning away to think of something else.  ~Herbert Butterfield, Christianity and History\n\n\nGod enters by a private door into each individual.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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God has a plan for you and me and He alone decides when to accomplish His plans. He is a faithful God not willing to let any of us to perish.His plans for us are known only by Him.
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A combination of both.\n\n1. We are free to choose, at any given instance and depending on our degree of conscious awareness of our actions and overall motivations, any action possible.\n\n2. There are only a given number of possibilities. I am not able to pick up a cup - with my hand - that is 2000 miles away from me.  This is similar to the way that predestination works - God knows what I will do because he knows my heart, my potential, and my capabilities at any given instant.\n\n~ There is no discrepancy between the two if you realize that God operates outside our conventional viewpoint regarding time.  All things that have occured since the beginning of TIME until the end of TIME (the discussion of what this entails is quite complicated and another matter entirely) are within the scope of God's apprehension and understanding.
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No one can tell you God's plan for your life.  God will reveal it to you and you alone at a time and place when you seek Him/Her.  It may not be a message you want to hear and it may not contain all the information you need.\n\nBe still and seek it for yourself.
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I have been told that he allows evil to let us make a choice, but if he knows everything he already knows what is going to be our choice.  He also can do anything, and if he can do anything, he also can stop us from sinning.  If he knows what we are going to choose but he doesn't stop us, then he made the choice, not us. So what's the point of that? It doesn't make sense.
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I believe God wants us to know specifically who he is and how to get to him.  Therefore, he provides us Scriptures. I just can't believe we can make up a god of our own imagining and have it be the right one. Only one can be right, otherwise he would be contradicting himself.
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I don't believe the bible is foretelling the future.  Rather, it tells us that we are invited to be with God eternally in the future and shows us how.
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I would say yes\nBut God wants Free-Will of choice........so in turn you make up your own mind.