Now freewill is not the ability to choose but having a decision-making process that is separate from how and where you are raised & your genetic code & social relationships. These factors are not under our control so therefore our choices are not truly made by the individual which is the basis of religion. It would nullify accountability meaning people are randomly chosen to go to Heaven or Hell.
2007-02-03 16:48:31 · 15 answers · asked by The Most Vicious Crime 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Au contraire ... those choices are very definitely under your control. You must believe in the universal law of karma and reincarnation in order for it to be fully explained. Bottom line is you choose your parents, your genetics, and all of the circumstances under which you will be born prior to incarnating into a human body. You choose the cirucmstances that will best enable you to learn the lessons you have yet to master and which will enable you to burn your karma (actions) from your previous incarnations. These factors are very definitely under your control. Accountability has not been nullified, and no one is randomly chosen to go to heaven or hell. Everyone eventually returns to their home in Heaven, (just on a different time frame).
2007-02-03 16:55:21 · answer #1 · answered by MyPreshus 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
At what age will we carry a man or woman accountable to God? 3? 2? 6? perchance after 18? and because life has a million distinctive circumstances that are no longer continually "judgeable" or "2-sided," and might desire to absolutely everyone ever wish to stay a "sinless" life? And why could I worship a God which you're saying is going to torture my afterlife "character essence" forever for slipping up accidently some cases for the duration of my short life? Does that look easy to YOU? i think of no longer...the place's the affection and justice in THAT, I ask you? Plus...there is not any "empirical" information of any invisible beings of any form in the international. All lifeforms we've encountered are seen and have bodies and such, and so the place is that this God? everywhere? Nowhere? exterior of area and Time? that would not make a lick of expertise once you think of approximately it rationally...
2016-10-01 09:48:26 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's only now drifting into the public consciousness, although it's been part of the debate in science for some time.
Just as the "experience" of God has kept a number of people tied to their religion, the "experience" of Free Will is equally hard to give up until you think it through.
One has to accept that scientific materialism is pretty much a valid point of view in order to give up the mind-body dualism that has permeated western (and much of eastern) philosophy for centuries.
Once the mind and the brain are seen as interchangeable and inextricably biology-based, then the problem of free will becomes the next topic that arises. In a linear scientific view, all events follow from earlier events. Therefore there is no free will because biology and experience dictate what occurs. In a systemic view, all events interact with one another and mutually alter one another. Both the linear and the systemic rule out the idea of free will, but the systemic framework allows for a feedback loop that notes our influence over our environment. Such influence helps feed the illusion of free will.
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2007-02-03 16:51:15 · answer #3 · answered by NHBaritone 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Because free will if pursued toward justice and love leads to God. Atheists don't want to assume the responsibility which goes with belief in God. Free will makes a person responsible for his acts to the extent that they are voluntary. Free will attains its perfection when directed toward God, a path which atheists are hesitant to take. Thus, there is a grain of truth to the saying that atheists are really believers. They are just in denial.
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2007-02-03 17:37:20 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You have the WILL to do whatever you want but that is a totally seperate concept from what influences that expression of that will. Think deeper bud. And to the person that answered this first, i'm glad you believe in God only because you need him. Actually you should tell him that when you get to heaven. I'm sure he'll be absolutely pissed.
2007-02-03 16:57:26 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christians like the idea of free will although they did not exercise it in choosing Christianity. In most cases it was chosen for them by their parents.
Anyway their own bible says free will does not exist.
Romans 9:18
So then He has mercy on whomever He wills (chooses) and He hardens (makes stubborn and unyielding the heart of) whomever He wills.
2007-02-03 16:55:30 · answer #6 · answered by October 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
why dont they argu against it? because there would be no point that had anything to do with athiesm. wether or not there is a god does not mean there is or is not free will. (unless you believe in god or the bible since it says god gave man free will, but that wouldnt matter to an athiest now would it?)
2007-02-03 16:53:08 · answer #7 · answered by Dashes 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You have freewill and are using your troll freewill to spread lies against Atheists.
2007-02-03 16:56:02 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
freewill is pretty hard to argue about for anybody, even religious people.
the best i understand it, it depends on the level you discuss it.
2007-02-03 16:53:57 · answer #9 · answered by rostov 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I strongly suggest you look into
the Heisenberg uncertainty principle
it puts a serious dent in your theory that everything can be calculated.
2007-02-03 16:54:51 · answer #10 · answered by Gamla Joe 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋