Does the notion of prophesy conflict with the notion of free will?

One could look at prophesy as being sandbanks and rocks in the river of time. Some things are inevitable. The only real difference is with whom the situation gets associated with it.

If Darwin had delayed his publication of the theory of evolution just a bit longer, someone else would be regarded as the "father" of the theory. Similarly with many scientific theories -- they had to happen, but it was free will on the part of the individual to get associated with that particular mode of thought.

Maybe the same thing in some form or another would account for Christ and Christianity, with Mohammed and Islam, with Siddhartha and Buddhism. It doesn't matter WHO the "prophesy" gets associated with -- the time of the idea had come.

What does matter is how we deal with situations; we can either let them control us (and become victims) or we control how we act and react to the situations. In other words, Free Will Rules!

Look at Jonah. You still have a choice. You have free will until it His Will prevails.

Not really. God first, takes into account all of our free will choices. Then, God acts definitively, according to his will and his plan, to bring about what he has promised.

It is not hard to prophesize the future when we know the will of those we are making that prophesy about.

"prophecy"

Answer: no, of course not.

If - for example - a "true prophet" accurately prophesies regarding a free-will choice that you are going to make tomorrow, that does not in any way stop that free-will choice from being a free-will choice.

Absolutely, either God knows the future i.e can inspire prophecy and a lot of other things, or we have free will and can make choices that God has no way of knowing what the outcomes will be. If God knows the outcome, then he knows what led to it and we can not choose anything that will change that i.e. we have no free will.

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If God is simply "predicting" then he is not infallible.

No.

Prophesy doesn't work like you think it does. You too can sort of "prophesy". If you tell others that you are going to the store at 10 am, and at 10 am you go to the store, you have fulfilled a "prophecy". Of course we don't call something like that a prophecy because we have control over the situation--sort of. You could die before then and your words would not be fulfilled.

But God has absolute control over everything, except for our free will. So if he "prophesies" that the sun will stop in the sky tomorrow at noon EST, all he does is stop the earth from rotating the next day at noon EST.

Recall God's prophecy to Solomon that because of his idolatry, he was going to divide the kingdom after the king's death (1Kg 11:11). So sure enough after Solomon's death, he used a tax issue to accomplish just that, and no one knew the better (1Kg 12:15).

It's not that he's looking into the future to see what will happen, or that he's already written the whole "play" of the universe and we're just going through the motions, but rather, when the time comes, he does what he needs to do to fulfill his word.

When it comes to our free will, he doesn't know with certainty what we will do with it (Gen 22:12).

No. The prophets are given visions to foretell a man's punishment(s) for wrong doing. If they turn around from their rebellious acts then they may get a pass for forgiveness. A person's future being foretold isn't them being held against their will at all. Your father can know what you're going to do later, does that mean you have no choice but to do it? No. It's just what you're choosing to do. In this case, Jehovah knows what you're Bound to do. He is perfect and misses nothing.

No, if you mean GOD speaking to his people.

If you mean predicting the future, itcan change.

Yes. If the future is known, then it must be carved in stone.