Within our society, it is usually assumed that we have free will. If you were to ask a random person on the street, they would most likely respond to the question, "Do you have free will or is there Fate" with the affirmation that they make their own decisions, because God gives us free will. Yet in the assumption of the fact that God gave us free will, there is a logical disconnect that most people ignore. How can God exist in a world where we can change the outcome of a situation in a way that is unpredictable to God? It is my stipulation that the Judeo-Christian view of an omnipotent God and free will cannot exist together. Additionally, the believe in an omnipotent God necessarily affirms the concepts of fate, while the believe in free will refutes the existence of a God at all.
Here is the problem as I see it. For an omnipotent God to exist, He by definition must be able to see the future. This means that even before my conception, he knows what choices I will make, and to that effect he knows whether I will follow him or not. Yet if this is true, then that means that I really have no say in the matter. This demands me to be a fatalist, and to deny the existence of a free will.
Yet if I claim that there is free will, then that is to say that I have a choice in whether I follow "Gods plan" or not, and in so doing I can go against him if I choose. However, if I am able to refuse god, then I can interrupt his plan. And if I am able to interrupt his plan then God is not perfect. And a perfect God is not God.
Here is the problem from another angle. If God is not omnipotent, which is to say that if he cannot see exactly what is going to happen at all times, then he can make a mistake. There are thi ...