Free Will and God's Omnipotence
Date Submitted: 07/22/2003 02:57:16
Category: / Society & Culture / Religion
Length: 5 pages (1448 words)
Category: / Society & Culture / Religion
Length: 5 pages (1448 words)
Divine Foreknowledge and Free Will:
Two Solutions to What Seems To Be an Insolvable Paradox
The problem of divine foreknowledge and free will has probably been argued since human beings first discovered the realm of a supreme and all perfect creator thousands of years ago. The problem between these two presumably coinciding ideas can be laid out like this. If, at the beginning of time, when God first created the world as we human beings …
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…their supporters and opponents. The Molinist solution appeals to humans’ basic idea that free choices should not be predestined. The timeless eternity solution appeals to the devout theist, and their lives’ commitment to an all-perfect being. Either of these solutions could be considered correct, as they are only theoretical solutions to a rhetorical question. Which solution one chooses to believe in, however, is primarily left open to one’s beliefs in and relationship to God.
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