Question
Free Will and God?
If God is an ALL KNOWIING God, doesnt He know all our actions before we do them? How do we have free will then? Also, if we do in fact have free will, then is God really all omniscent???
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Better minds than yours or mine have addressed that very question over the centuries. Ill just let them speakbrbrquotWith or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.quot Steven WeinbergbrbrquotIf God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent himquot VoltairebrbrquotI reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.quot Mikhail BakuninbrbrquotLet the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it.quot John AdamsbrbrquotProperly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.quot Isaac AsimovbrbrquotIf the Bible is mistaken in telling us where we came from, how can we trust it to tell us where were going?quot Justin BrownbrbrquotIs God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is impotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Whence then is evil?quot EpicurusbrbrquotThe way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.quot Benjamin FranklinbrbrquotI dont know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didnt.quot Jules RenardbrbrquotI have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.quot Georges DuhamebrbrquotTheology is never any help it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isnt there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.quotbrRobert A. HeinleinbrbrquotThe world holds two classes of men intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence.quotbr Abu Ala AlMaarribrbrquotWe must question the story logic of having an allknowing allpowerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.quot Gene RoddenberrybrbrbrWhat more can be said? What more need be said?brbrTo Gem and her grandfather, all we can say isbrbrquotHands that help are far better than lips that pray.quot Robert IngersollbrbrquotTwo hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayerquot Thomas Jeffersonbrbrand to poprocks brbrquotFaith is believing what you know aint so.quot Mark Twain, orbrbrquotWe may define quotfaithquot as the firm belief in something for which there is no evidence. Where there is evidence, no one speaks of quotfaith.quot We do not speak of faith that two and two are four or that the earth is round. We only speak of faith when we wish to substitute emotion for evidence.quot Bertrand Russell, or maybebrbrquotThe foolish reject what they see and not what they think the wise reject what they think and not what they see.quot Huang PobrbrBearing in mind thatbrbrquotThe invisible and the nonexistent look very much alike.quot Delos B. McKownbrbrbrquotYou cant convince a believer of anything for their belief is not based on evidence, its based on a deepseated need to believe.quot Carl SaganbrbrTo all ye true believers who are chomping at the bit to extend a Christian act of charity and to do unto me with your thumbs down oh, god forbid, I saybrbrquotThere once was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time was called the Dark Ages. Richard LedererbrbrPTL
