Look at all the problems that having "free will" caused in this world so far! Plus the things currently in the works and those yet to come, all caused and will be caused by the human race using "free will." What's your opinion?
2006-10-29 16:44:52 · 31 answers · asked by ZORRO 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Free will can destroy the world and all of mankind. Any mad man with the power to use a nuclear bomb and uses it, can use his free will to drop the bomb.
2006-10-29 17:13:23 · update #1
i would say that humans are a danger to the human race look at the environment not even thinking about all the wars and hate just all the pollution the ozone layer the Forrest the animals we are killing the planet we live on
2006-10-29 17:09:44 · answer #1 · answered by jamnjims 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is not the free will that is the cause of all the problems in this world LOL!!!! It is the greed of man - the I want this or that!! I don't care what happens to others!! The - I am too lazy to help that person who needs a hand, The - Not now I am doing my own thing. The - not now the time is not to my satisfaction. The - I can't stand it when someone has more than me or that 'whatever' is more valuable than mine. This is called selfishness, Greed for the satisfaction of having more or caring more for ones self rather than Doing the Will of An Awesome God who took the time and effort and by Love let Jesus be Hung on that Cross so that ALL the sins of the World - committed before Christ during Christ and After His death could be hung there. NOT for God's Gain even, but so that we as we were still sinners could say " Lord I realize that you love me a sinner. You died for my sins and Love me for who I am and where I am at. I want you to come into my life and forgive me, Help me to live according to your Will and not mine. Help me to follow you Lord, Amen" Once this is done you automatically join the Family of God and you can then start praying for others to accept Jesus. Never give up prayingJesus does answer our prayers, just doesn't do so as we think He doe, cause His thaughts are way above ours LOL!!!
2006-10-30 01:16:04 · answer #2 · answered by tracey s 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This actually raises a whole other debate in itself.
If you truly believe that God gave all men/women free will, then by questioning whether or not it is a good thing, are you not also questioning God's own decision to give that gift?
Think about it. If you believe that God gave the human race "free will", but then say that free will is in fact a bad thing, then you are also saying that God made a mistake. Doesn't that go against all that the Christian faith is founded upon??
2006-10-30 02:14:36 · answer #3 · answered by ♫kanis.lupus♫ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My theory is that it is free will combined with the power to create (which we have because we were made in the image of God) that causes all of the evil in the world. But if we did not have free will it would not be the same would it? Do you want to be free to choose and live in the world that we do or do you want to be a robot in live in a perfect world? I think most would see this as a very hard choice. With free will there is the chance that we can have both. But we all have to work to bring this about.
2006-10-30 00:51:07 · answer #4 · answered by tonks_op 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Free will doesn't cause problems. Only the misuse of it causes problems.
If a guy gets behind the wheel of a car after drinking too much, and then causes an accident where someone else gets hurt or killed, is it the car's fault?
Of course not. It's the result of a misuse of the car.
But of course, most of the time, cars are used for proper and good purposes. Free will is too.
We use our free will to do bad things sometimes, but we also often use our free will to do good things too.
Case in point: in Japan a friend of mine found 90,000 yen in a train station one day. That's over 800 dollars.
He could have used his free will to keep the money. But he chose instead to turn it in to the police, which is what one normally does with lost objects in Japan.
That was his free will kicking in, in this case to do something good.
So, no, free will is not dangerous. Only the bad use of it is.
2006-10-30 01:37:38 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The free will was given to the humans so that they can be seperated as good people and bad people through the choices they make. Originally man was created without sin but he was kicked out of the eden garden because of the choice that he made. Ever since then god had given us with a test which we have to pass every single day from the day that we were born through the choices that we make. Human beings aren't perfect but the choices they make in their lives define them so that when it is time for the final judgement God knows who deserves entry to his everlasting kingdom
2006-10-30 00:51:32 · answer #6 · answered by Jessiefer 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Free will is a gift of God. It allows you to make independent decisions based on fact and not someone else's opinions. In fact in some ways it demonstrates that God has some belief in the potential of the human race.
2006-10-30 00:49:11 · answer #7 · answered by waytooeasy67 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Humans were not given free will by anybody or anything. There will always be problems and always has been. People often use mis-guided notions and ideas about whatever god they worship to cause problems for others. The christian religion is extremely young compared to the amount of time man has been around and its introduction seems to have done nothing to solve any problems, indeed millions have suffered because of it
2006-10-30 00:54:06 · answer #8 · answered by disco 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The human race is on a journey to find the truth and free will is the tool for finding the truth. It is this journey is how the human race perfects itself. The sad thing is many people will die and suffer through fear, ignorance and hate.
"Right and wrong have no meaning but TRUTH has meaning as a direction."
Clarence Darrow
2006-10-30 01:06:37 · answer #9 · answered by tao_shano 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Though Human beings are given "free will" by God, they themselves influenced it by so many material things. If the "free will " is really exercised as a free will (free from the influence of any external forces) it wouldn't cause any problem at all. As we know, it is just not possible to keep our will free from any influence. Our minds are so strongly influenced by several material things / perceptions from our childhood and these thing strongly influence our will when we exercise that. In fact there is no such so called "free will" at all.
2006-10-30 00:56:39 · answer #10 · answered by Alrahcam 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋