by Gary Mei

Created on: April 24, 2008

According to Christians, God does not know the future. Those who claim that He does contradict themselves. God gave all humans free will. This is evident when you look at how people have the possibility of going to Hell when they die. God gave them free will and they abused it.

So if humans have free will, then they can shape the future through their actions. This means that the future is not a constant, but a variable. The only way for God to know the future is if he were omniscient. And even then, the only way for Him to know the future is if it was to stay the same. If the future was already preset, then humans really don't have free will at all.

But according to Christians, people do have free will. Hell supposedly does exist. The only way for people to go to Hell is if they do bad things. If God knew the future, that means that no matter what a person does, they will go to Hell. Yet, God is said to be a loving god. There is no way that he would send his creations to rot in Hell for all eternity unless he hated them. But God is not capable of hate. This means that people do have free will, which in turn means that God does not know the future.

According to Christian beliefs, God does not know the future. The irony in this is that Christians believe that God is a loving god (meaning that He does not send people to Hell, they go of their own free will), yet they also believe that God is omniscient (meaning that God knows what is to happen, which means that there is no free will. Everything was already pre-destined). If you still do not understand this, I have a simplified version of this below:

Facts (according to the Bible)
God loves all of His Creations.
People go to Hell if they are bad.
God gave people free will (or else they can't go to Hell, seeing as God is too loving to send them to Hell on purpose).

Theory
-God knows what the future holds, which means that humans have no free will, which means that He sends them to Hell on purpose, which means that He hates them. The Bible states that God loves his children, so that makes this theory wrong.

-People have free will, so God does not know the future.

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