  Re: Free will? Posted: Jun 19, 2004, 11:00 PM True Free will is an impossibility if you believe that God has a will and a plan. We know that He has both and that He admits to knowing the first day from the last and everything in between. Consequently there isnt even room for debate per se on the issue of free will as: God has a will. God has a plan. God is all knowing.
There is NOTHING He doesnt know. God is all seeing and everywhere. There is NOTHING He doesnt see. God is all powerful. There is NOTHING that he cannot do. Putting this all together you see that since God has a will and plan, which by virtue of His knowledge and power cannot be thwarted, man is incapable of doing anything outside of his divine will.
It isnt even a matter of Him letting things develop as they would, because He has a plan. If man were truely free willed then he (man) would be capable of meddling with His (God) plan(s) through his lack of cooperation. We are all insturments of His will, whether we are conscious of it or wish to be. We are living out the will and plan of God, and I find that glorious. omnipotent SYLLABICATION: om·nip·o·tent PRONUNCIATION: AUDIO: m-np-tnt KEY ADJECTIVE: Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful. See Usage Note at infinite.
NOUN: 1. One having unlimited power or authority: the bureaucratic omnipotents. 2. Omnipotent God. Used with the. ETYMOLOGY: Middle English, from Old French, from Latin omnipotns, omnipotent- : omni-, omni- + potns, present participle of posse, to be able; see poti- in Appendix I.
OTHER FORMS: om·nipo·tence, om·nipo·ten·cy —NOUN om·nipo·tent·ly —ADVERB omnipresent SYLLABICATION: om·ni·pres·ent PRONUNCIATION: AUDIO: mn-prznt KEY ADJECTIVE: Present everywhere simultaneously. ETYMOLOGY: Medieval Latin omnipresns, omnipresent- : Latin omni-, omni- + Latin praesns, present participle of praeesse, to be present; see present1. OTHER FORMS: omni·presence —NOUN omniscient SYLLABICATION: om·nis·cient PRONUNCIATION: AUDIO: m-nshnt KEY ADJECTIVE: Having total knowledge; knowing everything: an omniscient deity; the omniscient narrator. NOUN: 1. One having total knowledge. 2.
Omniscient God. Used with the. ETYMOLOGY: Medieval Latin omniscins, omniscient- : Latin omni-, omni- + Latin scins, scient-, present participle of scre, to know; see skei- in Appendix I. OTHER FORMS: om·niscience, om·niscien·cy —NOUN om·niscient·ly —ADVERB 
