then how do humans have free will? It seems to me that we are all just puppets then acting out a pre-arranged play.
2007-01-27 18:08:55 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The answer is that everything DOESN'T happen for a reason!!! The acceptance of that fact would ease a lot of lives.
2007-01-27 18:11:44 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
We have free will and are not puppets. I believe that sometimes our FREE WILL arranges things. Maybe it won't be long until you know the truth! I noticed that it was mentioned that we do not have a choice when we die! You are wrong sometimes we do in I was in death doors and even laughing about it one morning several years ago. I was told i could go or stay here- to go would help me not to experience some bad pain. Later on i started having a great deal of pain-i though i was really just going to die-it was the shingles. People have been brought back from the dead by doctors in the hospital and with God's help. An Angle was with me. What about those that Jesus brought back? How much longer will you be able to mock him. How much longer will God let you? Maybe not very long at all. I think he understands people who believe differently but they need to believe. You should be ashamed of yourself for getting on here since you have no belief at all.
2007-01-28 02:23:18 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are correct everything does happen for a reason. You have the free will of choosing path #1 or path #2. Every action has a reaction. No pre arranged play you have a lot of options to choose from in life. You have to play the cards you are dealt but it up to you to make the most out of it.
2007-01-28 02:17:03 · answer #3 · answered by Dereck 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Technically speaking, you're right: if one knew all the inputs, one could predict a human behavior under any particular circumstance. But this is obviously impossible; the inputs include the entire experience over a lifetime, and a free-will model works well.
2007-01-28 02:13:06 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everything happening for a reason doesn't necessarily mean it all happens in a preordained way. It just means that the outcome of the choices you make end up making sense in your life. Your life ends up making sense in the long run even if it takes seemingly forever to do so. You still make choices and your choices still matter.
2007-01-28 02:13:44 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
that is very easy to answer. you ever notice in school they hand out kids the same tests. of corse teachers know some of them are idiots who will never make a good grade how ever it is a test it is up to you to be prepared to take it and get a good grade. it is your furture. you have the free will to study hard and get a good grade or you can just be a slacker and not make any thing of your self. there for if you wanted to get into a good college the reason you are taking the test is to see if you are good enough for their school .so there for it can be the same reasoning when u want to apply it for god. as a muslim i think this way if we do not follow what god has commanded us to do and we choose to purposley disobeygod then what makes us worthy off heaven. what ever comes in our lives i would have to say is a test of faith and loyalty weather we are worthy of gods mercy or not
2007-01-28 02:17:27 · answer #6 · answered by wedjb 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
put it this way, do you belive in physics? do believe that if threw
a rock off a building it fly in a parabolic path like it should?
the mind of a human is no different. there is no magical fairy dust that makes our human bodies immune to the laws of physics.
put it this way, o you understand what a "descision" actually is?
its when one or more of your senses reacts to a stimuli, sends a chemical message to your brain which in turn sends a specific electrical message to your muscles which will contract in a specific way, it could all be calculated, this is determinism.
the future is absolute and there is no such thing as "randomness"
2007-01-28 02:19:04 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good example of another of dozens of mutually exclusive tenets of religion. My favorite is, when you ask why god doesn't intervene when something terrible happens (like a baby burning to death in a fire), They answer "having given them 'free will', he doesn't interfere in the affairs of man" Yet, when Aunt Mary gets into a car crash, and goes into the hospital, the relatives will pray for her (in effect, asking god to interfere) and then thank god for answering their prayers when she pulls through. WHICH IS IT? If he doesn't interfere to save a baby, how can a christian have the arrogance to ask and expect him to interfere in much more trivial things? If a christian still maintains god answers prayers (and therefore interferes in the affairs of man) they need to come up with a different response when asked why so much bad stuff happens to innocent people.It is ironic that christians are so uncomfortable with the fact that we share a common ancester with today's monkey, and yet, display a level of cognitive reasoning more akin to that of a monkey than that of a modern Atheist.
2007-01-28 02:49:51 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Mater Plan is in Gods hand and He has a reason for all all things to happen but with each individual has hie/her own free will to follow that will determine if one goes or Heaven or Hell
2007-01-28 02:15:21 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Everything that happens for a reason is based on the choice that you make with your free will.
2007-01-28 02:12:41 · answer #10 · answered by Andigurl 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋