There are implications. Free will leads toward a creator. Determinism leads toward a materialistic universe. At least, that is the way it looks to me.
2006-10-21 13:50:29 · 9 answers · asked by Cogito Sum 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
My will is free. What about yours? (;p)
Seriously, I think determinism is a largely arbitrary assumption. Observable evidence points to free will. Scriptural evidence indicates free will. What is more, I perceive my own will to be free, not other determined. Who is in a position to say otherwise for me? Or what evidence is there that it is otherwise? Is there any? You have a point about the implications...
Hoping the best for you...
2006-10-21 13:59:51 · answer #1 · answered by Debra N 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
FREE WILL is like a FREEDOM given to the citizens of the United States of America. Though you may be called free, you still live under a constitutional agreement that you live within the bounds of the Law. Your "free will" is your right to choose the way you want to spend your life under the guidance of the Law handed down by God to His creations. It can be determined by the laws of life by which you can choose your fate and you can tap on the use of nature's gifts while some natural law has its course that no one can stop but can be avoided and can be used as a source to learn from after it has come.
This explains fully that God is not steering your life, he did not create you for His purpose but he can choose you to be a part of his special plan which you are also given the right to follow or disobey. Your fate started with the circumstances around you when you were born because of the choices made by people who has the connection to people who bore you. As you mature, you are made to understand that there are choices you have to do or choices not to do to alter or to stay in that fate. There are many times too that forces beyond everyone's control like disasters, wars, and change of locations and other new people coming to your life and affecting your lifestyle that allows you to choose which road you take may change the fate you are in. Following ones dream is a prime example of a knowable "free will" and the fact that it has change your life according to the choice you made. Your choice can be towards materialistic gains or towards spiritual gains and if you are wise enough you can choose both because God could grant both as a blessing if you do it in the righteous way and a curse if you turn away from what is good.
2006-10-21 21:23:20 · answer #2 · answered by Rallie Florencio C 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The church is split on this issue and has been for several hundred years. Calvinists believe man has no free will, Arminians believe man has a free will. My suggestion is to try and find one verse in the Bible that states man has a free will. I personally have never found one, and I've studied the Bible for over 50 years now. Most believers in free will simply say that God doesn't want robots to worship Him which seems logical to the human mind, but still not biblical. They just never give scripture to back it up.
2006-10-21 20:57:24 · answer #3 · answered by oldguy63 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm a theist, but why does free will lead to a creator or determinism lead away from one?
2006-10-21 20:55:48 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
'Free will' isn't just non-existent, it's unintelligible. If your decisions are a matter of cause and effect then your actions are completely determined. If your decisions are random then your actions are a matter of probability. If your decisions are some combination of the two then your behaviour is certainly complex but it isn't in any sense governed by 'free will', any more than the weather is.
2006-10-21 21:13:40 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It really depends on how awake a person is, actually. Free will, do what thou wilt, how free are we?
There is the robot, and something else. The robot is all the conditioning that has been imprinted, and something else.
So what is in control?
Hail Eris! All hail Discordia!
2006-10-21 20:54:39 · answer #6 · answered by Hatir Ba Loon 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't see how you can believe in an omnipitant God and still believe in free will...
If God is omnipitant, then he knows the future and knows what we will do, what choices we will make, etc.
If so, then our choices have already been determined. We have no way of changing that without making God wrong (and, as God is omnipitant then he cannot BE wrong).
Therefore, as our choices are predetermined without the opportunity to change, we have no free will.
To add insult to injury, sin requires free will. So, if we have no free will, then we have no responsibility in our wrongdoings as they too have already been predetermined.
2006-10-21 20:53:14 · answer #7 · answered by DougDoug_ 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i think there are certain things we cannot ignore as being determined
our birth .. our death .. and certain things in between that seem to be placed in front of us
but how we get from A to Z is where choice comes in
if we are faced with a mountain , do we go round it , where it is quick and easy and we get there fast
or do we go up and over ... where there is obstacles and it is slower ... but with a fantastic view at the top
xxx
2006-10-21 20:53:51 · answer #8 · answered by Peace 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
free will is just that-- the ability to make your own decisions
If you believe in god--then your path is already laid, contradictory of course
2006-10-21 20:55:11 · answer #9 · answered by NO delusions 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋