If a man decides to enlist for the war as a medic, he's not choosing to be a medic out of freewill...something in his life must have inspired him to help people. Since we have no control over what inspires us, there can't be freewill.
2006-09-11 13:58:26 · 8 answers · asked by Xo 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You never choose to believe in God...something in your life must have inspired you first...we do not control what inspires us so there is no freewill. I am not inspired by the Bible...did I choose not to be inspired? Not really because I might've been if I hadn't watched so many movies and read so many books. Freewill is an illusion.
2006-09-11 14:07:44 · update #1
You have the freewill to obey the Word of God.
2006-09-11 14:00:12 · answer #1 · answered by Southern Apostolic 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Even if you are inspired, you still have the freewill to let your inspiration affect your life or not. I can be inspired by a magnificent painter but never become or want to become an artist. Inspiration does no control you, it influences you (just like your family and friends influence you). With Christianity,the foundation of religion is a decision to accept Christ's love and to love Him. The decision to accept Christ can be inspired but usually it occurs when people realize that life should be more than what the world has to offer.
2006-09-11 14:11:54 · answer #2 · answered by Ann Ducketts 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know what you mean, but inspiration is not enough for an intellectual individual who reasons logically to decide something based on inspiration only. Ghandi or Buddha might inspire me but I am not going to follow their footsteps and enter in their religion. Instead I should choose what is the True Religion i.e Islam.
2006-09-11 14:20:11 · answer #3 · answered by ATK 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your logic does not seem, to me, to be sound. Just because we are influenced by things, we still choose what we do. We are influenced, or inspired as you say, by hundreds of things each and every day, and yet we choose which of those inspirations we are going to act on. This is free will.
2006-09-11 15:05:21 · answer #4 · answered by hisnamesaves 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In Buddhism, it is pretty much everything (freewill). You are 100% responsible for your own life. You have past karma, but even that is your responsibility to rectify. In your example, being a medic would almost certainly be a *good* way to rectify karma.
2006-09-11 14:19:59 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It really depends on the religion. Some religions believe in humans having a free will, and some don't.
Religion is really founded on Mankind's attempts to touch or relate to God (whatever "god -s" are believed in). Free-will may exist as a doctrine in a particular dogma, or it may not.
Orthodox Christianity believes that humans have a free will. IDK about other denominations or religions.
2006-09-11 14:13:57 · answer #6 · answered by MamaBear 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Free will is the inspired creation of the creator. He wants us to want to come to him, he doesn't want us to be forced to come to him.
2006-09-11 14:02:09 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Religion and God is the ultimate in enslavement.
2006-09-11 14:33:35 · answer #8 · answered by Brutal honesty is best 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋