I posed the question on yahoo answers and this is the best atheist answer I got. I think someone out there can surely do better than this. I’m a Christian and I can do better than this.
If God knows what choice we are going to make, do we actually have a choice?
If God cannot create a loving robot, does that deny him omnipotence?
Does God create some of humanity’s biggest evils (Hitler etc.) in full knowledge of the atrocities they will commit?
If a baby dies, does God know whether to place it in heaven or hell based on what choices the baby WOULD have made? If so, the baby never really had a choice in the first place.
Basically, I’ve come to believe that either God isn’t omnipotent, or doesn’t exist.
If I Were God I: Would / Woudn’t Have Create A Being Who May Spend Eternity In “Hell”.
Lets take your points one at a time.
Just because God knows what you will choose doesn’t mean you don’t have a choice. Anyone who has raised a child understand this. You get to know your child and know what that child will choose in a certain situation, but that doesn’t mean the child had no choice.
Just because God cannot create a loving robot, doesn’t mean he isn’t omnipotent. Being all powerful doesn’t mean you can do what cannot be done. No amount of power can make 2+2=5. The amount of power one has doesn’t effect that. Love must have a choice or it is not love. 2+2=4. There is no difference.
God creating Hitler is your best question. However, you are assuming God created Hitler and gave him no choice about his actions, which of course is not what Christianity teaches. Now God could have stopped the atrocity, but they is he really giving humanity a free will. But lastly, and I think the best answer, is that God uses suffering for a long term good. Dwight Eisenhower caused great human suffering on D-day, but very few would say his decision was evil.
The baby dies question is good, but it appears in the book of Revelations that there will be a rebellion some time long after births have ceased. In that situation a baby that dies is still presented with the opportunity to choose for itself.
So it appears to me that you final statement is true, but I believe the proper choice is that God is Omnipotent.