2006-06-19 11:24:23 · 6 answers · asked by jose m 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
My grandmother, a devote Christian, always said she didn't want to live in a nursing home. She spent time in a nursing home a couple of times, always for a short time to recover from this or that health problem. When her health failed to the point that she knew she would have to stay in a home, she and her kids cleaned out her apartment on a Saturday, she spent Saturday night in the nursing home and early Sunday morning she had a fatal stroke. Did she will her life to end? Did she pray that her life would end and the prayer was answered? Simply coincidence? Perhaps some people can simply decide they are done here on this Earth.
2006-06-19 11:45:34 · answer #1 · answered by Jill H 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, if you commit suicide, that is obviously your decision. And if someone kills you, I guess that's their decision. We all do have free will, but that also means that the free will of other people can impose upon your own free will, even to the point where they can kill you. And God allows everyone to exercise their free will for many reasons.
2006-06-19 11:29:49 · answer #2 · answered by jas2world 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is a question of God's sovereignty, and has been and will be debated for years to come. God knows everything, including when you die, but you still have free will to live your life. Don't ask me to explain how that works, because I can't.
2006-06-19 11:31:06 · answer #3 · answered by Eric 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no free will, only the experience of free will.
Priest and politicians love to claim there is free will, because it automatically makes you a criminal fro being human. Thus they can enslave you right away.
If you will is truly free, then where does this will exist exactly?
2006-06-19 11:29:49 · answer #4 · answered by Real Friend 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
According to Christianity, you have the free will to accept or deny Christ as your Savior. This implies that you have the free will to follow his plan and wait for God to "call you home" or deny his plan and in a fashion be your own god and pick you time and place. (If God does not call you home first).
the Free will is to pick your destiny in eternity.
2006-06-19 11:32:46 · answer #5 · answered by electricpole 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's one area we have no will in. It's in the area of destiny, fate and karma.
2006-06-19 11:28:07 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋