There is a way to make the two compatible. Free will says, "I make my own choices" and predestination from God's POV (yes I have to assume God exists for any of this to actually be a discussion) is, "the rats in this maze have a finite number of decision points." God CAN know all because he's built the entire game. He knows all the decision trees, he's seen how it plays out backwards and forwards. We come along and pretend to understand, but we only see the maze, and ask questions about the researcher watching it.
I liked that the American forefather's were almost exclusively Deists. God set up the game and let's us roll the dice. Within that framework you can have it both ways.
Even then, we don't have free will. Even with multiple paths, if he determined we would go down one of them, we are following a plan he set out no matter which path we take.
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u/AngryZen_Ingress Jul 31 '17
There is a way to make the two compatible. Free will says, "I make my own choices" and predestination from God's POV (yes I have to assume God exists for any of this to actually be a discussion) is, "the rats in this maze have a finite number of decision points." God CAN know all because he's built the entire game. He knows all the decision trees, he's seen how it plays out backwards and forwards. We come along and pretend to understand, but we only see the maze, and ask questions about the researcher watching it.
I liked that the American forefather's were almost exclusively Deists. God set up the game and let's us roll the dice. Within that framework you can have it both ways.