If God is all-seeing and all-knowing, then doesn't He know what's going to happen in the future?
Only in the eschatological sense. In the linear sense, He doesn't know because He leaves it up to us. God has it both ways. Not only does He let us choose but He knows what we'll choose... if He needs to... because He exists from Beginning to End.
He doesn't have prior knowledge because He isn't prior or subsequent: He's eternal. That's the point. However, even if he did know, prior knowledge wouldn't preclude freedom of choice. Nor would it make Him responsible for our actions. The idea that one person is responsible for another's mistakes simply because he knows what he's about to do - that's a uniquely human concept resulting from a victim mentality. God doesn't see us as victims, so He doesn't expect us to blame Him every time we do something wrong.
If God already knows what's going to happen, doesn't that mean our destinies are set in stone, and we have no free will?
Events are set in stone when they've happened. At the end of time, God knows what's happened.
However, we still make the decisions. He just knows the end of the movie because He exists at every moment from the Beginning to the End. We're the writers. He happens to know how the movie ends because he's particularly farsighted.:-)
An omnipotent, omniscient God has the ability to take away His hand and permit humans to make their own choices. Your inability to comprehend the true nature of omnipotence is not proof of anything but the fact that you are human, fallible, and incapable (as we all are) of comprehending the nature of God.
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Only in the eschatological sense. In the linear sense, He doesn't know because He leaves it up to us. God has it both ways. Not only does He let us choose but He knows what we'll choose... if He needs to... because He exists from Beginning to End.
He doesn't have prior knowledge because He isn't prior or subsequent: He's eternal. That's the point. However, even if he did know, prior knowledge wouldn't preclude freedom of choice. Nor would it make Him responsible for our actions. The idea that one person is responsible for another's mistakes simply because he knows what he's about to do - that's a uniquely human concept resulting from a victim mentality. God doesn't see us as victims, so He doesn't expect us to blame Him every time we do something wrong.
If God already knows what's going to happen, doesn't that mean our destinies are set in stone, and we have no free will?
Events are set in stone when they've happened. At the end of time, God knows what's happened.
However, we still make the decisions. He just knows the end of the movie because He exists at every moment from the Beginning to the End. We're the writers. He happens to know how the movie ends because he's particularly farsighted. :-)
An omnipotent, omniscient God has the ability to take away His hand and permit humans to make their own choices. Your inability to comprehend the true nature of omnipotence is not proof of anything but the fact that you are human, fallible, and incapable (as we all are) of comprehending the nature of God.