15 Feb '07 23:10>
Originally posted by scottishinnzYep, God had perfect knowledge of the fact that you would reject Him, but that's hardly the same as Him making you reject Him, don't you think?
No. It doesn't make sense, at least free will doesn't if that's the way you view things. God created the universe and everything in it with perfect knowledge of all the choices we'd make, in advance. He created the universe in just a way that he knew he'd have to send me to hell. This is logically inconsistent with a benevolent God.
We can't see into the future, but I guess a similar example would be: have you ever had a loved one that was addicted to something? Or depressed/suicidal etc?
You know that the choices they are making are going to hurt them, but just because you know doesn't mean you caused them to make those choices.