2006-08-16 19:55:31 · 21 answers · asked by u&me 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
was there free will in ancient egypt civilization ? .. a firaoh named himself god .. and every must obeyed him ..
2006-08-16 20:02:43 · update #1
Nope. You don't have to be religious to believe that you have free will. You just have to be simple enough to not see the big picture.
2006-08-16 19:59:45 · answer #1 · answered by Master Maverick 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Free Will was not available until Jesus came....
They had no choice way back when if you remember.
God said do it and they either did it or would die, examples are: the plague, disease, famine, hail fire (Soddom & Gamorrah), the great flood (the Ark), burnt offerings, etc....
So it is not really bound to religion either....
Everyday we have a variety of choices...
How are we gonna do today?
What job should I choose?
Should I be this person's friend?
Is this good for me?
Is this really what makes me feel good?
How should I let this effect me?
What can I do about this?
In all of those questions & more your free will is used... for what you choose to answer the question with will directly affect the life that you call your own & how you feel about living. There is usually a productive, good, add to your life answer & then there is the other answer.
Do you do what you think is the right thing to do?
OR
Do you do what what seems best at the moment, not really paying attention the outcome?
No religion involvement in there, I don't think.
2006-08-17 03:18:17 · answer #2 · answered by SuperPrincess 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Free will is not a religious concept, but a human instinct. It's only thru laws, that we curb our instincts to do exactly as we wish.
To call it religious is just wrong. You're saying that god placed 2 trees in the garden (one the knowledge of good and evil the other eternal life), allowed A&E the concept of free will (lacking the knowledge of good and evil) yet punished them, and every ancestor of theirs for exercising what he gave them? The basic claim here is, even though we were imbued with free will by an all-loving creator, (who by the way was the liar in the garden scenario...read genesis carefully) we are eternally punished thru the generations, simply because we chose free will over blind obedience...
2006-08-17 03:09:08 · answer #3 · answered by Bill K Atheist Goodfella 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Free will and religion just do not go together. Just look at the muslim countries. Women are not allowed to show any part of their bodies except their eyes, no matter how hot it is. Anyone caught for minor religious crimes could be whipped and tortured.
The ansient egyptian civilization was religious, if you didn't know. And the Pharoah did not name himself a God. What are you? Totally oblivious to history or just a christian?
2006-08-17 03:02:21 · answer #4 · answered by =_= 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It can be a religious concept if the concept is being "granted" or "created with" free will, but it can also be a concept of a non-religious society. In a non-religious society, "free will" would be a given because what else is there?
2006-08-17 02:59:34 · answer #5 · answered by bill91173 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No I don't believe it a religious concept. When I was a child the Baptist preacher of the church my mother made me go to told me that my life was already planned out from the moment of my birth to the moment of my death and my status of sin was set and I couldn't get around that no matter how many good deeds I would do in life.
So what did I do? I exerted my Free Will and left christianity.
2006-08-17 03:02:16 · answer #6 · answered by genaddt 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
FREE WILL is being endorsed by democratic countries aside from being a religious concept.
Non-religous country such as China has just recently and officially imposed on WAL-MART Branches in Beijing to let their stores organize a labor Union which actually can be part of people's free will and they are non-religious controlled country.
Some countries in Europe does not have strong religious convictions and they are one of the freest countries.
2006-08-17 03:11:15 · answer #7 · answered by Rallie Florencio C 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Um, no. Free will is inherent in each and every one of us. It's said that the Christian god gave humans free will. Well, if he did, he's sure being a jerk about it. You can't give a person free will (the ability to choose for themselves and make their own decisions), but say that there's a right and a wrong answer, and the wrong one will earn you eternal damnation. That's not truly free will.
2006-08-17 03:05:55 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Free will isn't a religious concept although it is found in nearly all religions. Ironically however, religious people tend to stray away from the use of their free will.
2006-08-17 02:58:43 · answer #9 · answered by RH (a.k.a. God) 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
this to master maverick... i guess you know the big picture huh?
and you really backed that up.....
anyway, the question of free will thats tough because on the one hand you could say, hey i just moved my right arm, thats free will, but on the other hand you could say, well that was simply a reaction to an external force, like you reacted to this dialouge by moving your right arm to show your "free will". is every chioce and movement a reaction to something else which is out of our control, and there for the drama of life and evolution just a playing out of a reaction between sub atomic particles which are all governed by natural physical laws like gravity, etc.
all of are actions result from electric impulses given by are brain to... lets say move a muscle, but what is causing our brain to give these electric impulses? ourselves, our an external force like a physical law driving us?
one could then enter in the question of quantum mechanics, and the sparatic and seemingly chaotic nature of quarks,
and this does very much become a religous question. or maybe a scientific one... is the universe sparatic and chaotic, ordered by physical law, or are we governed by our own free will?
if there is god, is there free will?
could god be the physical force acting on all of matter?
?
2006-08-17 03:22:17 · answer #10 · answered by dna14468 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋