I never found freewill and omnipotence incompatible
Imagine you’re God. You are omniscient, so whatever decision you make no matter how complex you can see all of time with and without that decision.
It’s like looking at the trajectory of a mars landing — it’s complicated, but you can plan it out and see the whole path.
So in my head God goes ahead and makes some choice, being omniscient he sees all the outcomes and individual trajectories of our lives, but from our vantage point we still have the ability to choose and make decisions, God just knows what the full arc looks like. It’s relative. There’s nothing incompatible there.
That being said, I’m atheist/agnostic. I’m an egalitarian and I believe if there is a god it would be asinine to judge us for our faith instead of our actions.
The alternative would be sentencing billions who never learned of Christianity to hell or purgatory for reasons outside their control. That doesn’t make sense to me.
I never found freewill and omnipotence incompatible
Imagine you’re God. You are omniscient, so whatever decision you make no matter how complex you can see all of time with and without that decision.
It’s like looking at the trajectory of a mars landing — it’s complicated, but you can plan it out and see the whole path.
So in my head God goes ahead and makes some choice, being omniscient he sees all the outcomes and individual trajectories of our lives, but from our vantage point we still have the ability to choose and make decisions, God just knows what the full arc looks like. It’s relative. There’s nothing incompatible there.
That being said, I’m atheist/agnostic. I’m an egalitarian and I believe if there is a god it would be asinine to judge us for our faith instead of our actions.
The alternative would be sentencing billions who never learned of Christianity to hell or purgatory for reasons outside their control. That doesn’t make sense to me.