2026-03-08

God Has No Free Will (Four Arguments)

There are four philosophically strong arguments that God cannot have free will.

  1. If God is perfect, then, it always follows the best course of action and therefore never has a choice.
  2. A benevolent God always chooses the path that causes most good, so, never has a choice.
  3. An all-knowing god knows with certainty all of its future actions. As its knowledge cannot be wrong, then, it must follow this instantaneously predetermined path, and has never had a moment of existence in which this wasn't the case.
  4. A perfect being that created time never changes (any new state implies that the previous state was less good); a being that never changes isn't making choices. This makes sense for a being that is outside of space-time.
  5. Without free will, God cannot be moral, and must be neutral (amoral).

    One final irony is that if God created free will, then, it had no choice in doing so. If free will wasn't created by God, then, God is not the Creator. If it was, then, #Creator:at the moment when it created free will, the concept did not exist, and therefore, God itself did not have free will in doing so.

    See: www.humanreligions.info/god_has_no_free_will.html.

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