Answer to Question #107800 in English for Renaissance

Question

How do you think a Catholic or Protestant would read during the Renaissance if someone told them that whatever will ever happen to your life was already planned by God from the day you were born?

Answer 1

This was referred to as the contradiction between God’s omniscience and man’s free will. Some Christians believed that free will did not exist as all of a person's actions were predetermined by God at the moment of their birth, and thus their judgment in the eyes of God was effectively preordained. However, some other Christians believed this was a matter of faith and whether God is omniscient or not, nothing will interfere with mankind’s free will as they bear responsibility for all situations they are in and in the way they act toward one another for instance, rewards, punishment, happiness, and grief all depended on how individuals lived their lives..