Do you think that an Omnipotent Creator that a gives free choice is an oxymoron?

well I didn't get the Question? Yes we have free will! Love is All there Is! The Creator is Loving and All Knowing! What else can I say? What else do you want?

Well... that is a wonderful question. This question has started my own philosophy and rebuilt my beliefs some time ago. The religious determinism claims since God (Godess or whatever) is omnipotent, God knows and controls everything, so we have no free will. I hate this idea, and freedom is for me the most precious value, so I looked into these councepts deeper. One side, we have the free will itself, the other side, the omnipotency which actually means power. So what directly comes to my mind is that power is a political or economical affair. What does God has to do with politics or economy? Not much. So I conclude that actually the "omnipotency" is a human eager that maybe God is not concerned with. We humans have this weaknes of ego that makes as wanting more and more, and thinking we will get that with power. So in a primitive thought, we may think that God has this totalitary power. But in my opinion, God is over that, and don't has this need for controlling others to feed selfish feelings. So God is not exactly omnipotent. But God does have some powers we don't have, since God is over all. The most wonderful of thoose powers is precisely the capacity of giving as freedom. We ourselfs can not create something and give it freedom, we just can approach that by making a robot programmed to make things, but never create an actual soul with decision capacity. So God is "omnipotent" since God can give us freedom. There is no oxymoron, in my opinion. Exactly the contrary.

Yes... a very big oxymoron! With free choice people can kill, steal and so many other mean things! Imagine humanity with no free choices how peaceful! No wars, no killing! Maybe no fun... but you wouldn't get harmed at least! XD

Being an atheist I suppose that I am biased with this one. I must highlight that I don't wish to cause offence to anyone at all in this discussion. Just because I am a non believer doesn't mean that what I believe is actually true. In my opinion a large part of religion is the social support network that comes with it. For this reason I believe that the statement is an oxymoron, and in some ways provides a get out clause. By saying that we have free will God get's off lightly when people do bad things. Sorry if I sound flippant. At the same time though I think that is a good thing, as it would certainly not be right for crimes such as murder or rape.