Do you realy have free will?

Question

if you have free will, do you then have the free will to "not sin?"
can you go throughout your life without sinning once?
Answer; big fat no! We are all slaves to sin. Sin takes away your free will to "not sin," every last person is a victim of this "sin virus" that takes away your free will, and leads you to live a life of excesses, to your death; you eat to much you die, you eat to little you die, so with this you will see that there is no way you can save yourself, for "ALL have sinned," so can you honestly say that you have the free will to not sin? And if you do sin, how can you save yourself?

Answer 1

Asking God through his son Jesus to forgive you

Answer 2

There's a much more coherent arguement that follows:

Determinism and fatalism are both philisophical schools of thought that state that free will does not exist. The central premise behind both are that an event in one person's life effects the way they react to everything else that they will experience in life. In essence, you think, act, behave, and process the world in the exact way that you do because of all your past experiances. And if you had different experiences, you would act, behave, and feel differently than you do now. If you sin or commit a crime, most likely it is because you were born into a series of experiences that shaped the way you made decisions of right or wrong. This is where determinism ends. Fatalism goes a step further and states that your entire life has been written for you. Because all the events that extend backwards determine where you are now, all the events in the future are fixed as well. Ponder this: if I am what I am now because of everything that has happened before, and in the future I will commit a heinous crime, should I be jailed now for my future sins since my henious nature stems from the person I am at this moment?

Answer 3

to not sin?

to be honest with you, i know many ppl wont lke me saying this. but all religions were created to help people to lead a better life by creating an example.

not sinning is possible. that would be depending on the style that you lived your life.
if you were religios, then it is unlikely that you will be a sinless soul.

eating pork in some religions is counted as a sin... do you really think that "god" came down and said "dont eat bacon. its a sin?"

im sure its one of those temptations again, but this time id rather eat the bacon than the apple ;)

Answer 4

We really do have free will. once you are born again you become dead to sin. Sin never rules you, if you are tempted you will only say "get behind me Satan". And if you sin it is you that were Will to sin not anyone. It is because you have the will that somebody will come and persuade you to do something. Through Christ that strengthen you, you will definitely succeed

Answer 5

You have got it!!!

Living life is sinning according to one religion or another regardless of what you do.

Is anyone else out there confused by the number 'one and only' true religions.

I just believe in one less god than the Jews, Christians and Muslims and as such am even less of an Idolater than them.

Answer 6

The Apostle Paul, who was wrestling with the same thing; wrote the following scripture;

“But I see another law in my members (his body), warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
“O wretched man that I am! Who will save me from this body of death?”
Romans 7 v24

We have no choice to sin because the virus IS the law of the universe, as much as gravity and taxes. When the virus took over the system, it changed a system that was in equilibrium to one that HAS to change, which is another un-written law of the universe, you don’t change you die, but when you do change you still die in the end! Hence your free will to not change is taken away. Do you have the free will not to change to survive? Or do circumstances force you to have to do things contrary to what you would normally have to do to get by? The truth is that there is no one who can stay as they are, we are continually altering our ways to survive in this corrupted system just to live. You cant keep your family together by staying as you are, because outside influences forces changes on you. This outside information comes in and takes away your families equilibrium forcing you to have to change. Where then is this elusive free will to stay as you are? Of course you can stay as you are, but this only causes the death of your marriage in the end- so the virus wins again.
So then is making choices an act of free will? Our choices are limited to our circumstances. Some choices are big; like changing jobs, some are small; like what you want for dinner. But all these choices, big or small are differences in the way you live; eventually what you have for dinner may have to change because of health. So all choices big or small affect your life in the end, forcing you to have to change- change or die- change or your family dies. The virus taints our choices forcing us to have to change.
God however has given us two choices; life or death, these are the only ‘pure’ free will choices that we have left.

Answer 7

The Bible records two men who were favored by God so much that He took them straight to heaven without letting them die.

God said that the wages of sin was death.

Sounds to me like two men lived with no sin.

Answer 8

The insight of us is like a two edged sword, either yes or no, is to come from ones own subconscious. Sin is when you don't help yourself, or help yourself. We are all victims of our own thoughts.

Answer 9

it seems you do not have free will the churches call it sin if you have free will the control of the people is getting worse so you do not have free will the chuches say no

Answer 10

technically yes a people have gone tough the world without sinning.

and for the rest of us who do sin all we have to do is ask G-d forgiveness.

Answer 11

You are thinking along the wrong lines.
Sin DOES NOT EXIST.
No one, except those who want to control you, wants to make you believe in a thing like 'sin'.