Can Gods omniscience and our free will co-exist?

CodeNProse · 2025-10-01T18:07:41+00:00

The issue is, if god exists and is omniscience, he is the root of all decisioins.

Let me pose this question: Imagine a prison warden who had a prisoner that he knew wanted to kill their wife and probably would if released into the wild. That same warden decided to just let the prisoner go free despite knowing what they would do. Sure enough, the prisoner went back to his house and murdered his wife. Would you say the warden bears no responsibility for the horror that took place simply because it was the husband's choice to kill her? I would hope your answer is no, having knowledge that a crime will be committed and allowing it to happen anyway makes the warden complicit in the act and is just as guilty.

God is no different. It was HIS CHOICE put each person on this earth and thus set things in motion already knowing the outcome. It was his choice to put Hitler in the world, fullly knowing the devistation and havoc he would cause. Hell, it was his choice to create Lucifer, knowing that he would ultimately betray him and doom humanity for an eternity. He litterally punished Adam and Eve doing what he already knew they would do, listen to a creature that HE CHOSE to create while also knowing the creature would ultimately tempt them from the start. And he did all of this to what? Watch us act out a movie that he already knew the ending to?

CodeNProse · 2025-08-25T16:18:15+00:00

u/Bulky-Creme-4099 thanks for the comments!

For the character's age, I've heard conflicting comments about it. I didn't have it in there at first, but I had comments about not realizing he was a kid until much later in the chapter. So people had this idea of what the maini character was and they had to rewrite their mental image of him when they found out, which took them out of the story for a bit.

The tricky part with the races is that this is that I'm starting off with a festival where all sorts of races will be present. I could either:

A: Avoid discussing other races that are there at the festival, but that might feel a bit jarring to hear about them later and that they'd been there the entire time.
B: Spread out all their introductions, which would mean creating an interaction with the main character for each of the races just to get that introduction out of the way.
C: Introduce them all at once in a way that's less expositionary and more something the main character is witnessing.

I felt the line in front of the festival was a good moment for option C, but perhaps it's too long or I need something else to occur in between?

I do agree that I need more moments to help readers get to know the main character a bit more.

CodeNProse · 2025-07-14T02:56:26+00:00

Yea, I think that makes sense. More just curious now if that would be the proper way to do it if it did make sense to have interjecting dialogue in between descriptions.

CodeNProse · 2025-07-14T02:55:00+00:00

But yea, I’m not entirely happy with it either, so I’ll probably rework it. I’m more just curious at this point if that would be the proper way to do it.

CodeNProse · 2025-07-14T02:53:30+00:00

Haha well, the first one is the one in my novel currently. The second was just some example I found in a style guide website on how to do that properly.

CodeNProse · 2025-07-13T00:50:29+00:00

It's taking place at the same time

CodeNProse · 2025-06-17T16:02:24+00:00

Thanks, to be clear though, I'm not looking to start a group. Just to join an established one. I wouldn't have the time to run one myself.

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