Alright, you have freewill to choose. Who makes choice? The individual. How? He uses his thoughts. Where do his thoughts come from? From society. How does he control what information he receives and has access to? He just does. A man can choose to read a book but what if he was a precolonial slave? Then he doesn't; freewill is limited. Then when is a person accountable for his sins? When he knows the difference from right and wrong. What is the difference between right and wrong? It says in the Bible. How does a man choose to have faith in the Bible? He just does. Can that choice be limited since freewill is limited? No, he has enough freewill. Well it's obvious that there are reasons to have faith...obedience, inspiration...does an individual choose what inspires him? Sure. How? He just does. I have a banana - can you choose to be inspired by it? Not really. Aren't you judging based on past experiences? I guess. How do you choose what you remember? I just do. Because of freewill? Yes.
2007-01-05 20:10:03 · 5 answers · asked by The Killer is Me 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
God created us to be tested by the most we scare of, for those who keep their patience and prayers to get the most they dream of, and those who don’t the most they hate. Your own thoughts make your own personal tests, paradise and hell
2007-01-11 13:43:53 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
“Behave like free men, and never use your freedom as an excuse for wickedness. (1Peter 3:16)” Hence, it is clear that God did not purpose that man’s freedom be unlimited. It was to be exercised within the boundaries of God’s laws, which were righteous and would work for the benefit of everybody. And those boundaries were wide enough to allow for much personal freedom of choice, so that God’s rule could never be oppressive.—Deuteronomy 32:4.
2007-01-06 04:27:12 · answer #2 · answered by Tomoyo K 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What is so hard about free will?
KJV
Jos 24:15 - And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
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2007-01-06 05:01:18 · answer #3 · answered by Jimmy Dean 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are free to react or not react in any situation. We do choose to believe and our information may be limited but if we choose to seek we will find the things that society knows nothing of.
2007-01-06 04:24:28 · answer #4 · answered by bess 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is merely a matter of perspective.
If I set a slice of apple pie and a slice of strawberry pie in front of my husband and I tell him to pick one, I know for a fact he's going to pick the apple because he like it and he hates strawberry pie. But does my knowing what choice he's going to make change the fact that he has free will to chose either slice? Of course not.
God knows our hearts, He knows what choices we are going to make. Does that change the fact that we have the free will to chose Him or to not chose Him? No.
Free will boils down to this. You get to make one choice in life, and ONLY one. Choose God, or choose Him not. Your life is spent in a prayer to Him and if you chose Him not, he will answer your prayer.
2007-01-06 04:16:40 · answer #5 · answered by Last Ent Wife (RCIA) 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋