6205 The True Nature of GOD!

Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux

Stefan Molyneux

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🗓️ 30 November 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Philosopher Stefan Molyneux explores a challenging listener question about the relationship between God's omnipotence, omniscience, and the concept of free will. He begins by defining omniscience as God's complete knowledge of all events throughout time, which raises questions about human autonomy in light of divine foreknowledge. We delve into thought experiments on free will, highlighting the interplay between subconscious decision-making and moral agency. Using relatable examples, he argues that true free will exists in our ability to make moral choices aligned with our values. Transitioning to the divine perspective, he discusses how God's perfect nature means He cannot change His mind, ultimately reconciling the complexities of divine knowledge and human freedom. This exploration reveals important implications for our understanding of moral responsibility and the nature of God.

The listener's question:

"I believe you said (forgive me if you haven't) that God can't change his mind, therefore he is not omnipotent. This doesn't make sense to my personal experience. Why would I even want to change my mind if I were omniscient? Why would anyone want to change their mind if omniscient?"

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0:00.0	All right, quick question from listener.
0:02.5	I believe you said, forgive me if you haven't, that God can't change his mind, therefore
0:05.7	he is not omnipotent.
0:07.5	This doesn't make sense to my personal experience.
0:09.9	Why would I even want to change my mind if I were omniscient?
0:12.1	Why would anyone want to change their mind if omniscient?
0:15.0	It's a great question, and I really do appreciate that.
0:19.6	And so, let us endeavor to answer it as best we can.
0:26.1	And just as a note, this is slightly tired, Steph. I had an early morning errand to run,
0:34.9	and I am cooking on slightly less sleep than normal, but I'm sure it will
0:40.1	be either fantastic or will be an excellent ASMR for your nap time, but I promise no shouting.
0:48.4	So, this is, of course, one of the foundational challenges of the concept of a God, of God, is that God
0:58.5	is all-knowing and all-powerful.
1:03.1	Now, to be all-knowing is, of course, to have full knowledge of the behavior of every aspect of matter and energy from here
1:15.3	to the end of time and backwards to the beginning of time. And even if we say, well, there is no
1:21.8	such thing as the beginning or end of time for God that it's infinity,
1:28.2	infinity past, infinity future, infinity everywhere.
1:31.8	You know what the exact temperature and wind speed is going to be 10,000 years from now
1:38.8	in every location in the universe, right?
1:43.1	So even like the eye of Jupiter, right, the sort of red storm
1:46.4	that's been going on for 300 years on Jupiter, you know the exact behavior of every atom,
1:53.7	in every breeze on every planet with atmosphere, in every one of the hundreds of billions of
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