Hm, for there to be a god existing, especially the Christian one, calls into question a lot of stuff. Ignoring the obvious ones, how does “free will” work?
In the Bible, it references humanity’s ability to free will as the reason to why sin exists; however, God is also known to be Omniscient, Omnipresent and Omnipotent which would mean He would continuously live in the past, present and future.
If that is the case, it would mean our actions are pre-ordained in a linear time continuum the moment the universe came into existence as we are only following the preconceived future that God had envisioned, therefore stripping us from our free will due to humans only following our fate throughout our whole lives.
This could be explained by the idea that each and every situation humans experience creates an infinite number of possibilities spread throughout different potential futures, therefore meaning that God just knows every possible outcome there could be but this also creates a different problem: for someone to truly have free-will, this implies that each and every decision a person makes would then create boundless offshoot universes at that EXACT moment or “hops” to the alternate universe where they have done that decision.
It can’t be the the former, as it would then undermine the existence of God if every person had the ability to create their own universe on top of how it would make future foresight somewhat impossible as there IS no future, as there hadn’t been a choice made at that given moment.
Even if we were to say that the moment the first human’s decision had been made led to an everlasting chain of infinite possibilities was created thereafter, you would also have to acknowledge that it would violate the premise of free will as it would suggest that our current universe has its own set course among the countless of offshoot universes from the moment humanity existed, which once again loops back to the first issue.
If it is the latter where we ‘hop’ to the universe where we done that decision, it does fits the Christian view of free will while making God’s future foresight work; but it also means that God had created more than just one universe and we are in a continual state of hopping between different parallel worlds, and does that mean that there is a heaven for each universe? It can’t be a shared heaven, as there would be countless scenarios where one would live in a situation where they could potentially die and vice versa unless heaven holds all possibilities of an individual whether individually or as one person?
Latter doesn’t really work though, as there will be countless sins and good committed as well as each person being both Christian and Non-Christian therefore voiding the whole ‘judgement’ aspect of heaven. Former would undermine the Christian views of humanity and the individual…
