2006-09-21 08:18:10 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Moral indignation is the major divider between the two.
While Christians argue free will they seem to constantly argue against exercising that will.
2006-09-21 08:23:33 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Free will is when you can choose between say a red car or a black car.
Free choice is when they are both available to choose from.
Free will or free choice as determined by the bible is basically "you can do what you want to do, as long as you do what I say, or else!"
Soddom and Gomorrah were cities that exercised free will and were destroyed because of it. Not that I would have wanted to live there, but my point is when bible bashers cite "free will" as an excuse for the evils of the world, I quote the above example as a test of genuine freedom of will/choice in the biblical sense.
Kind regards
2006-09-21 08:23:55 · answer #2 · answered by jezterfezter 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Free will typically refers to the idea that we are our own moral agents; that is, our actions, thoughts, words, etc. are not "pre-decided" by God, fate, destiny, or anything else.
Free choice, on the other hand, refers to a our "ability" to choose. For example, American women could not "choose" to vote at one time. They could, however, have free will even as their "choice" was limited. Their actions, thoughts, words, etc. could remain of their own intention.
The ideology of free choice typically revolves around the notion of situational limitations, or lack thereof, whereas the ideology of free will revolves around the notion of free moral decision, regardless of situation. They can appear quite similar, but they are fundamentally different.
Free choice has eveything to do with worldly, external factors. Free will is an issue of the human interior, or soul.
2006-09-21 09:56:43 · answer #3 · answered by seth t 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your will is a superset - a mental state - from which decision-making is derived.
Therefore, it is possible to have your WILL manipulated so that you make a certain CHOICE freely. Such as being in a cult that convinces you to chop off your pee-pee and kill yourself when the hale-bopp comet goes by.
2006-09-21 08:23:10 · answer #4 · answered by Jerry 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The paradox is, that you seem to think that there is a meaningful difference in the two.
2006-09-21 08:23:55 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothing.
You have free will to make your choices.
2006-09-21 08:21:44 · answer #6 · answered by Salvation is a gift, Eph 2:8-9 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
aren't they the same?
2006-09-21 08:21:33 · answer #7 · answered by kimber g 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋