re catholic doctrine of predestination stephen a creps writes the catholic doctrine of predestination does not exclude free will in any way since god knows everything he therefore knows everything that is going to happen to us we have free will and are able to change what happens to us however since god knows everything he knows all the choices we will make in advance god is not subject to time too often arguments pit predestination against free will we believe in both that last sentence of steve s is an important one to remember there are certain things in the catholic religion that cannot be completely comprehended by a human being were this not the case it would be good evidence that the religion was man made in the case of predestination you have to reconcile two things that would at first appear to be irreconcilable the sovereignty of god s will over all things and man s free will in deciding his own fate catholics believe in both but that doesn t mean that anyone has come up with a pat reconciliation i have often thought that goedel s famous theorem has applicability to catholic dogma at least in an analogous sense there are things that are true that cannot be proved god s intellect is far above ours there are many truths that we will never be able to understand
