Yes we have a free will my brother! Lets see what we can do with he verse you have asked about.
Gen 18:21 I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not,
I will know.
Mike, the kind of language found in Genesis 18:21 actually is present throughout Scripture. As early as Genesis chapter three, God asked Adam,
“Where are you?” (3:9). In Genesis four, He asked Cain, “
Where is Abel your brother?” (4:9). The book of Job reveals that at the beginning of God’s first speech to Job, God asked the patriarch, “
Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth?” (38:4). Are we to assume questions like these or statements like those found in Genesis 22:12 and 18:21 (“I will know”) imply a lack of knowledge on God’s part?
I am fully aware God says this for the benefit of man. I fully believe that when God asked Adam if he ate the fruit of that tree, God knew full well Adam did.
Where is Able? Able's blood was crying out to God from the Ground. God knew.
Not in the Case of Sodom though.
I am trying to get you to see something Major.
God went down to look then he said he would know.
Same with the Tower of Babel. Let US go down and look.
God is showing you how he operates. Study out cry.............. God hears that in heaven.
Psa 145:19 He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him: he also will hear their cry, and will save them.
God knew the moment Abraham was about to sacrifice Isaac. It was not a foreknowledge, it was a relationship.
God searches hearts that are perfect toward him. He does not keep a list of hearts that he knows will be perfect toward him.
God is not an alien Major. We are made just like Him.
God did not know or plan for King Saul to fail. God is not planing something He has to be sorry He did much later. "It repents me I made Saul King." repent here means long sigh, a sadness.
It was Saul, that changed the plan. It was Eli that changed the plan. It was Adam that changed the plan.
Major, God does not Give a plan then foreknows something different than His own plan. That makes God stupid.
God is not watching the heathen, they are not his. Why he was not watching Sodom or even had a plan for Sodom. He heard the cry come to him. He went to see if that Cry matched what he was hearing.
God is telling us how he responds to man and how he operates here.
1Sa 2:30 Wherefore the LORD God of Israel saith,
I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me for ever: but now the LORD saith,
Be it far from me; for them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.
God is not saying one thing, while having in his mind something else. He knows what he said, and planed, he does not change that unless we change that.
Because I know it's coming shortly....
here's a link to some of the more inetresting notions posed by Ken Copeland
http://www.pastorpauley.com/faq/kenneth_copeland.htm
the net is full of the folly of Copeland, google is your friend
Glumdum, did you have to post that 4 times so I have to see that picture of that cat? Seriously?