I was thinking more about the free will subject after class and I remembered the movie The Minority Report. In this futuristic movie, people are being put in prison before they commit the crime. This is by these the help of three people who get visions of future murders. By the end of the movie all the people are freed because it was found that in reality they cannot know for sure if a person would commit a crime until it was already done.
Now in class it was debated if we still had free will if God knows all. I believe we still do. God may know what we will chose to do and lets us chose it even if he does not agree. He knows what we are going to do before we do it and by letting us do it we have free will. What I mean is that He could very well stop our existence if He knew we would fall but because He loves us and grants us free will He let us be. He let us live to understand His justice. We have to experience life and our choices in order to know ourselves and all those watching us from afar that do not know what God Himself does know.
The fact that we exist to make the choice of doing what is already known to God is the reason we can say we have been given the choice to choose.
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I agree with what you're saying Priscilla. I think that God allowed us to live, when He very well could have destroyed the world with a snap of His finger, so that we could learn about Him and form our own opinions about whether or not we still wanted to choose to follow Him. The key word is choose. God is allowing us to choose whether or not we wanted to choose Him.
What would you say to someone who asks you "If God is giving us free will, why is He going to destroy those who choose not to follow Him"? Just a thought, because I've been having a little bit of trouble myself answering this question.
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