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8 months ago

I do not beleive in God, but I agree that 'the problem of evil' argument doesn't disprove Gods existence.

Nevertheless, this concept is outlining some other interesting thing that I would like to share with you.

The premises are that God exists (let me just grant you that), God is all knowing and all mighty.

1. If God is all knowing he must know the future with 100% certainty.

This is also often supported by the claim thta God is timeless being, God exists beyond scopes of time. And this is also suported by the 'theological argument' — if God doesn't know future with 100% certainty, than I can imagine a God who does, therefore the God in my imagination is more powerful, which he cannot be.

2. If God knows future with 100% certainty, than the future cannot be changed, even in slightest amounts, future is constant

Otherwise, God would not be 100 certain

3. If future cannot be changed even in the most minor details, than a belief that one can make free decisions (it is possible for a person to choose something that was not chosen) is an illusion.

Since the future is constant, the decisions people make are predetermined. (For example, I couldn't have not written this comment, or you couldn't have possibly not read this comment up until this point).

Supporting argument: From the same theological argument, if your decisions can affect the future, than it makes Gods certainty in the future not perfect. If I can imagine a God who didn't have that problem, that would make God in my imagination more poweful than he is in reality, which cannot be.

All this leads me to a conclusion that it is impossible to belive in the existence of God and the existence of 'free will' at the same time. Since your will is not determined by you (you do not have control over God's perception of future).

It is important to note that this is NOT an argument against God's existence, this is an argument for determinism, which I btw believe in. And determinism does not contradict God in any way possible.

Another thing to note is that I am talking here about FREE will. I have no doubt that will exists, it is just not free in any way, you do not decide what to want.

And the last point is that believing in determinism does not make you just lay in bad and do nothing because "nothing matters, the fiture is already determined"!
Let's imagine that Monday evening I began to believe in determinism. The Tuesday morning, the same factors, that caused me to want to get out ouf the bed at Monday, would still affect me at Tuesday. That is exactly what determinism is about, I do not have control over what I want to do

But in a more grand sceme of things — beleive in what you want whether it is God or free will, or both at the same time, as long as their core beliefs and values are at least neutral in terms of their influence on quality of person's ethics, or you are not defending descriminatory, unethical, annoying and other bad actions from the behalf of some beliefs that in core do not entice such actions, than you are good

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