Do you believe in God?

As i've already said, i'm a christian. Or i would have never even checked this forum. I don't believe in him being all knowing, just all powerful.

Seriously? That's not Logical. Yes He is All Knowing. He knew Lucifer was going to Rebel. But He didn't make Lucifer rebel. That was free will. There IS an All Knowing, All Powerful, All Loving God, and there IS free will. You aren't being forced to do anything, you make your own decisions, and God knows your decisions. That's all. It's not hard to understand. He knows what you'll do, but you are still the one doing it. He doesn't decide your future, He just knows your future. Why is this such a hard concept to grasp?

If he is not all knowing, he cannot be all powerful. If he is neither, he is man. Haven't you heard the saying: "knowledge is power"?

Why be all knowing and create something that has "free will" if you already know what their will is? Especially if he puts effort into each and every one of us, then why would he create some of us to fail?

How can he create everything without being all knowing?

Do you have a screensaver on your computer? Have you seen the lines moving around the screen one? I'm sure you have. In mathematics, you can create some really interesting designs using formulas, etc. Why bother when we know what the end outcome will ultimately be? Because sometimes it's still beautiful (and sometimes not), even when you know what the result will be.

Because even if only one person in the history of the world was going to be saved, than it was worth it for God. That's how much He loves us.

Thats the core of my belief, i don't believe he created everything...i believe he pushed it along, but did not create it...

And you're right, all humans do have free will, but he already knows what we choose so,..

Well that's the first problem. You are trying to mix this world and God, and that just doesn't work. God is all powerful, all knowing, and all loving. He didn't just "push this world along" but He created it. He is the creator.

God didn't create us that way. He made us perfect and without the knowledge of good and evil. That knowledge came from the tree in the Garden of Eden of which God told us not to eat. There was no sin in the spirit of man until Adam and Eve ate of the fruit after the serpent's deception.



That's a victim's mentality. 2 Timothy says: "For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline." There are things that we cannot control, but our emotions are not one of them. Marshaling one's emotions is a worthy objective. Your actions resultant of any emotions (even those considered "bad") can be positive.



"5For the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations."

"35Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away."

"8The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever."

"6The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
7Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever."

The New Testament must be fallible because when it quotes the OT it has to translate from Hebrew to Greek, right?



Knowledge of what will happen beforehand doesn't prove non-existence of free will. I don't understand how this point can be misconstrued. You can have knowledge of how an event will unfold without altering the manner in which the event will occur. Planning for an event doesn't mean that God has forced us to choose one path over the other. "if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land." God tells us if we choose certain paths, not when.



You don't understand agape. "The Lord directs the steps of the godly. He delights in every detail of their lives."



The thousands of gathered translations which the KJV draw on have differences of only spelling errors made by the copyists as far as I recall. I'm not sure about others.



Re-read Genesis.