So...god already knows what will happen in the future. And god is infallible so that means you can't change it...so does free will actually exist? [Spirituality & Religion]

I know that this is an old question but i've never really talked about it before.

And this is compounded if we believe that biblical prophecies are legitimate.

How do we square inviolable predetermination with free will?

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Zaphod42 · 46-50, M

I don’t believe in god as is laid out in religion, but if I had to rectify that then we do have free will and can make any choice we wish, but god already knows what choices we’re going to make and makes his plans accordingly

Pikachu

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But that means that we were always going to make that choice. Which means there was no other decision that we would ever make.
So that is pre-destination. How can we have the freedom to make our own path if our path is immutably laid out before us?

Zaphod42 · 46-50, M

We are always free to make any choice we wish. But according to religious dogma god is aware of those choices well in andvance as if they had already happened. We are only aware of time as a linear function, whereas he is described as existing in all points of time and space simultaneously...a concept only vaguely comprehendable to us mere mortals @Pikachu

Pikachu

@Zaphod42

Well if we're going to abandon cause and effect then i guess so?

lol still doesn't make much sense to me

Zaphod42 · 46-50, M

Took me a while to wrap my head around it too. I still don’t believe in a god as laid out in dogma, but I’ll admit to the possibility of a pan dimensional being such as that 🤷‍♂️ @Pikachu