Is there a free will or is it all prewritten script ?

Answer 1

There is free will

Answer 2

In most instances both.

What you are physically and some of your mental facilities are predetermined, as Genome research is now confirming. It is said the time of your death can be found from the Genome code.

There is a belief in and evidence to clearly show Predestination in some people.

Yes, there are natural born killers. Natural born geniuses. Natural born Savants. Genome code is also showing that there are natural born Homosexuals.

Free will comes into play for most if not all, however the "lunatic" who hears voices of has a fractured psyche -- and these people DO exists I knew one, one who almost burned the place down with me in it! -- free will may not be a reality or option.

For most it is.

Sometimes, however, God or the angels nudge you in a direction, but you must use free will to see or know the situation. You plan to turn left, but something makes you turn right. After that you are on your own. Free will.

Free will covers most choices. You choose what to do with the $20 bill you find on the sidewalk. YOu chose to tell the truth or make up a lame excuse when you are late. You chose if you want to ruin your marriage by fooling arund with the blond you met at the bar. You chose to wear or not wear seatbelts. You chose to smoke or not. You chose to get into a car with someone who has had too many drinks.

Some people choose to rob a bank, while others are compelled to live that kind of a life. They refuse to stock shelves at $7 an hour and go in at gun point and take what they want.

Sometimes that is free will, sometimes it could be predestined.

Answer 3

Mankind has the right to choose. This is what makes people. We choose in free societies who to marry or not. We choose which religion or none. The only way there is no free will is if you live in a country that forbids it. This is now Iran. There are no choices there, not because of God but the president. There are no pre-written scripts, that is like saying a baby is born with directions of it's care on it's bottom end. We all have distinct personalities from birth.

Answer 4

I can give an analogy. If you release an arrow it will proceed to hit the target. This is your action and it will bear fruit as per the rule of nature. This is what is known as fate. On the other hand you can stop / redirect the arrow by shooting another arrow from the opposite side. This is called free will. In essence both fate and free will are effects of your own actions done at two different times. But these effects act as per the rules of nature (or universe) which is controlled by the God. This way there is no conflict between God's omniscience and our free will

Answer 5

I think that depends on a lot of factors. On the human side are you guided by your passions or your mind? An animal will do the same thing over and over again, a thinker will take any of several paths, or maybe do something completely different. If you can break the cycle of cause and effect you have free will.

On the omniscient side, perhaps something that can control the universe can take away your free will, but I understand God used his free will to give the same to us. So, likely, while he's controlling everything, he may be controlling it like someone who made his own pachinko machine. God created the stimulus and then the balls fall as they may, and he gets to watch it.

Answer 6

Great question! I hope you find this useful

Yes there is free will - at least from our point of view.

The term "free will" suggests that we can simply make choices with some degree of independence - e.g. our decision to have a banana split instead of a sundae comes, at least to some degree from us and is not dictated entirely by outside forces. Granted these outside forces do influence us - previous experience tells us what satisfies us, our development comes from a mixture of genetics and environmental influences. Still, these conspire to make us discrete individuals and as such, this point on, we have the ability to affect our futures. Also, as far as freewill vs. determinism, please remember that our decisions are not 100% determinable in the first place - at least not by us. Our brains are actually to a degree susceptible to quantum fluctuations - random input - which makes that impossible.

On the other hand, God has determined the course of events in this universe and knows our every decision, but since he can look upon the universe from "outside" the box, that in no way invalidates our own perception of free will.

I hope this was helpful!

Answer 7

Most of the Christian religions say we do have free will. Calvinists say we are predetermined.

Ignoring the religion, I would say we are not completely free, since our gens and environment determine our personality which determines our decisions. However, since the environent is changing all the time, I think the "script" is written continuously in the present by everything in the same time, including you. That is a very limited, but still free will.

Answer 8

Free will baby. At least that is what the script told me to write!

Answer 9

Both. God has the "elect", the set aside ones. In the past, that would be the saints. Besides that, everyone has free will with in the over all plan of God. God will not interfered in your life unless you ask Him to. The elect do have a destiny. God will guide them.
Ephesians 1:4"According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
5Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will"

Answer 10

Free will. If it were a prewrittn script, you would be nothing but a robot that had no option but to do what he script said. But you DO have a choice, don't you? You can believe this or not, that is choice, free will.

Answer 11

It's both. It's like improv.
You come in with a vague list of things to accomplish and learn, but the HOW and WHEN are left up to you--and you can even choose to blow the list off and do something else entirely.