2006-09-27 23:07:11 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Man doesn't possess free-will. His direction is given by God.
Let's say you love to eat chocolate and not vanilla. Will you have the free-will to eat vanilla? Do you eat it just to prove you have free-will? What if I don't force you to eat, and you really dislike eating vanilla, will you go and eat vanilla on your own free-will?
Our directions are dictated by our desire, like and dislike, etc. Not free-will.
To believe we have free-will is just like a computer that believe it's alive just because it can think. All this while we know the computer can think in such way because we program it to think in such way. It's an inherent illusion.
2006-09-27 23:22:38 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would say no, as children do not possess the knowledge to exercise free will. Conceptual thought process does not even BEGIN to develop until puberty and once the brain has collected enough data for the process. Until they have this ability, the fate of children is reliant on the choices made by their parents, just like at the time of the Great Flood and Sodom and Gomorrah. The same will apply to Armageddon, as well as children who have passed away up until then. This is something to consider in making ones choices in life, when you have small children.
2006-09-28 06:18:51 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you believe in original sin, and the inability to choose God, then the only "free" will man has -- from birth -- is against Him, making your answer both yes and no.
2006-09-30 09:25:39 · answer #3 · answered by ccrider 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Does man posses free will at all? Certainly the Bible does not teach that.
2006-09-28 06:09:33 · answer #4 · answered by oldguy63 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes.
Jesus gave the knowledge for us to choose things, so free- will is from the birth.
2006-09-28 06:21:11 · answer #5 · answered by Christa 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Just does not have all the capabilities initially to express it. Just wait till the tyke can do more than cry and you will see free will.
2006-09-28 06:22:46 · answer #6 · answered by bobm709 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
Man possesses free-will and imagination from his birth.
2006-09-28 06:11:25 · answer #7 · answered by Rakesh Gupta 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
perhapsin an abstract sense but not in a real one since there are too many physicallimitson children and that includes their lack of knowledge of the world
2006-09-28 06:10:35 · answer #8 · answered by Boring 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes of curs.......even before humans birth
god create human with choice the important think that make human different than the other creatures
the base of humans intelligence is choice ,that made human higher than the other creatures
the god did not write our fate we made it with our true and wrong choices. the fate is the past choices that make today
more info at Koran:-D
2006-09-28 06:20:08 · answer #9 · answered by p.e.z 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
2006-09-28 06:12:05 · answer #10 · answered by Gary UK 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋