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If God is all powerful (omnipotent) and according to the Bible he is omniscient (all knowing) then he knows every choice anyone will ever make, he will know whether you end up in hell or heaven and he has known this since before you were ever born.
So if the God of the Bible is true, you cannot have free will since your choices are all known and your end station (heaven or hell) is already known before you were even born or actually before God created the universe.
If this isn't true, the God of the Bible does not exist and if some other God that is NOT the god of the bible exists, how would you know his will and if he is a God, wouldn't he make his will known?
Since it then cannot be the bible or any other scripture (the same problem exists with all gods apart from the Norse gods but we know where lightning comes from now so we don't need a god to explain that any more) and an impotent god doesn't make much sense there is no reason what so ever to come to a conclusion "some god(s) exist".
So no empirical evidence and no logical reason.
And yet, it's spread as a disease from parent to child and I wonder why.
For my parents it was the case that if you believe in punishment and reward then religion has it's place. Neither of them were theists in any shape or form but used the guise of religion to keep me and my brothers and sister on a straight and narrow path with threats of hell and promises of heaven...
Is it worthwhile for that cause alone?
So if the God of the Bible is true, you cannot have free will since your choices are all known and your end station (heaven or hell) is already known before you were even born or actually before God created the universe.
If this isn't true, the God of the Bible does not exist and if some other God that is NOT the god of the bible exists, how would you know his will and if he is a God, wouldn't he make his will known?
Since it then cannot be the bible or any other scripture (the same problem exists with all gods apart from the Norse gods but we know where lightning comes from now so we don't need a god to explain that any more) and an impotent god doesn't make much sense there is no reason what so ever to come to a conclusion "some god(s) exist".
So no empirical evidence and no logical reason.
And yet, it's spread as a disease from parent to child and I wonder why.
For my parents it was the case that if you believe in punishment and reward then religion has it's place. Neither of them were theists in any shape or form but used the guise of religion to keep me and my brothers and sister on a straight and narrow path with threats of hell and promises of heaven...
Is it worthwhile for that cause alone?