Isn’t it incumbent for the giver of a gift to be responsible for whom he gives that gift? And isn’t the giver of a gift blameworthy if he gives gifts to those whom he knows will abuse those gifts? Should we make drugs available to 8 year olds and alcohol available to 6 year olds? Would you give a razor blade to a two year old?
2006-11-27 12:12:12 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Negligence is a crime in our society. I guess it wasn't a crime in those days.
2006-11-27 12:17:43 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
You can't "abuse" free will -- having free will inherently implies that you're free to make any choice you want to, and so the act of making a choice (no matter how things turn out) can't possibly be "abusing" free will.
Even better -- if there is a god (which I highly doubt since there's no evidence of it at all), and he is indeed "all-knowing," then he couldn't possibly give anybody free will. If somebody already knows how you're going to act, decide, etc. then the outcome is already determined. If the outcome is already determined, then you have no choice -- hence no free will.
Think of it this way: if god knows exactly how everything is going to turn out, who's going to do what, who's going to his heaven and who to his hell -- then there's no point in doing the whole "life on earth" exercise anyway. He already knows the outcome, just simply cut to the chase, put the ones who would wind up there in heaven, send the rest to hell, and get on with eternity. If that's your god, then you have no reason for this existence in any way. Don't say "but he had to let it play out" -- no, he didn't, he's god right? All-powerful and all-knowing? He knows the outcome and could have skipped the whole pointless exercise.
Religion makes no sense whatsoever. Those who swallow those fairy-tales need some serious instruction in how to think, 'cause they're not doing very well right now :(
2006-11-27 12:20:13 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
God has given a lot of people some great responsibilities. Some of them were successfull and others not. He gave two choices for the gift He gave. Either you use His gift following His commands or you do not. Whichever you choose to do He knows what will happen. Your Free Will is to make a good judgement on what course of action you will choose to do for every resources given to you as your tool.
He does not want anyone to abuse the gift He gave. How you use His gift is yours to decide. Do not listen to divine teachings as if God is steering your life and then blame Him for anything unfavorable that happens. Much as I cannot ask God why did He give you the kind of mind you have.
2006-11-27 12:33:09 · answer #3 · answered by Rallie Florencio C 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some people don't believe that we have free will (calvinists), but personally, i do believe in free will. God created us for His pleasure for us to worship Him. Here's an analogy: Say you build a robot. You program it to worship you and tell you how great you are. It prays to you and would do anything for you. You programed it to do that. It had no choice. It would make you feel pretty good. BUT What if you had children. A lot of them. And they had a choice whether to love you or not. Some of them might not, but others would love you and make you feel like the most loved person in the world. It was their CHOICE to love you. they could have turned away, but they didn't. Wouldn't you have so much more joy and happiness than if they were forced like a robot? You would enjoy it a lot more. hope this helps :-)
God Bless
2006-11-27 12:22:11 · answer #4 · answered by love4God 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Little pig, you are diverting from the issue. You desire freewill, you revel in the fact that you can "think" for yourself.
You are against believing in what the Bible says, see God gives us an in built knowing of what is Good and Evil (as in the tree in the Garden of eden, you questioned about previously).
Drugs are available to 8 year olds, if the 8 year olds parents abuse drugs. If a 6 year olds parents drink alcohol is available to them. Razor blades are readily availble too.
The parents would be negligent if they didn't do everything in their power to inform, warn and protect. In the same way God has done the same for you, HE has given you the Bible, He has given you a knowledge of right and wrong, He has given you people around you to let you know God's ways, (you even quesiton these things which is very interesting.) He sent Jesus, He has done many miraculous things.
He gave it to us, because we need to learn to love Him, obey Him, He wants us to choose a relationship with Him so badly.
( This was well reasoned I believe, can you see my the empiricist in ME?)
2006-11-27 12:20:35 · answer #5 · answered by Abbasangel 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I believe you are missing the point. God gave us the abilities to choose as a free will regarding salvation and things in our life. You cannot blame God in no other regards to compare or find fault. How can you try to denounce or find fault in such a great God that even created you. The gift from every perspective was given so that however you choose your course of life or actions is provided to point you to eternal life.
2006-11-27 12:18:59 · answer #6 · answered by JoJoBa 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The most important thing God wants with us is a relationship with him. If we were programed to love him, how would he know if our relationship was a real one? By giving us free will, God knows that our relationship with him is from real love. In order to truly accept God, you have to make the conscious choice between right and wrong...without free will, we wouldn't be able to love him and choose to follow him as we should.
2006-11-27 14:01:11 · answer #7 · answered by MOGI17 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Let's see think of as a father , your Father gave u a free will to choose your life! He gave u advice , words of wisdom to live by did he not! Well that why God left his word for us to freely choose him , not by force nor torture are we going to choose him! It's by our own hearts , to want to choose him and do what it right in his eyes! Same way we want our children to do right and make their own choices in life! You can not blame your father if u choose not to obey him! It' s that simple don't make God so complicated, just think of him as someone who will never reject you , nor stop loving you when you call on him!
2006-11-27 12:22:20 · answer #8 · answered by jane22 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Free will? God is eternal and all-knowing. He knows the future. So when God created Adam and Eve and placed them in Eden he already knew with complete certainty that they were going to disobey Him. Yeah, He gave them "free will," but he already knew exactly what they were going to do. Isn't that weird?
If God is all-knowing AND all-powerful, then he could have created humans with free will who still would have chosen not to sin.
2006-11-27 12:18:18 · answer #9 · answered by dark_phoenix 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
No everyone seems to be in charge for their own strikes do not blame God using fact one guy or woman freely chooses to pervert his loose will of selection. each guy or woman is in charge for is own strikes and what he does along with his loose will. a guy or woman can use it to obey God or he can use it to disobey God. it particularly is not God's fault however the guy who chosen to act. Isn’t it incumbent for the giver of a recent to be in charge for whom he supplies that present? No And isn’t the giver of a recent blameworthy if he supplies presents to those whom he's accustomed to will abuse those presents? No could desire to we make drugs attainable to eight 12 months olds and alcohol attainable to six 12 months olds? No could you provide a razor blade to a 2 12 months previous? No If I did it extremely is my fault not God's. Did God foreknow that Adam and Eve could sin? confident if so, then he could additionally understand in improve the excuses why they chosen to sin. And if he knew in improve what those motives have been, then he could desire to’ve corrected them and/or presented them extra info to have self belief him. What extra info could they elect. They already talked to God they understand God created them. God instructed them no and the pronounced confident. They used their loose will to disobey. If, case in point, Adam and Eve mandatory extra info that God meant what he pronounced in the event that they consume of the fruit, then couldn’t God have given them extra info, like he purportedly did to Moses and Gideon who the two doubted? To withhold this mandatory info is to be at fault for doing not something to help Adam and Eve of their temptation. no that's a incorrect end. God did all he could desire to for Adam and eve. Their loose will allowed them to say no. If God tries to quit some one from utilising their loose will then it particularly is not loose will yet compelled to do God's will. No God isn't in charge for the ideas we make.
2016-12-29 14:20:07 · answer #10 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He gave us free will so we could CHOOSE to worship him. Adam and Eve were responsable enough to make their own decisions unlike a two year old.
2006-11-27 12:17:46 · answer #11 · answered by scriptureman 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋