Originally Posted by
Woona
This. /thread
This thread is now about "whether or not God can actually UNDERSTAND us - like, our actions and the way we think and such."
Then again... omnipotence, he should know everything about everyone, correct?
What this leads me to wonder is how he can punish people for doing the things they do if he understands exactly how and why those actions were chosen.
Sure he "could" have "given" them a choice, but if he's truly all-knowing he'll already know what they'll choose, and if that's the case, then does free will even exist, AND IN THAT CASE, according to some of the christian religions, it's basically determined from birth whether we'll go to heaven or hell, which is a stark contradiction to the fact that we're supposed to have free choice.