On my last question somebody posted that free will is actually free will to choose God or not. I guess they saw my question as a perversion of the free will dilemma. I contend that there is no free will here either.
Can somebody freely will to choose God if they reason God belief to be detrimental to them?
Do you choose what is beneficial and what is detrimental to you?
If you believe that choosing God is as healthy as choosing to swallow a cheeseburger with a side of arsenic can you freely will t eat that cheeseburger unless you feel that the detriment is to your benefit?
Perhaps you're suicidial or have munchausen syndrome...
2007-02-05 03:04:30 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I'm not sure that I follow your reasoning, as generally when you make a choice, you evaluate the various possibilities and choose the most beneficial or attractive one. If you believe that "God belief" is detrimental you are likely to choose not to believe however another might determine that "God belief" is beneficial and choose to believe. Your evaluation of the result of the choice doesn't affect wether or not you have freewill.
2007-02-05 03:12:33 · answer #1 · answered by Pirate AM™ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its blatantly obvious you have free will, dammit.
Look at you, you can do whatever the hell you want.
You could argue you were destined to do that but unless you felt some struggle some... cant... do...what....I...want! Like superman with chains of kryptonite around him then I cant possibly understand what you mean.
Even if you consider that the whole block of our spacetime is one frozen river and everything is predestined - you still have free will! Why don't people understand that.
2007-02-05 11:09:54 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
1Corinthians 2:11 - For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. 1Corinthians 2:14 - But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
2007-02-05 11:11:41 · answer #3 · answered by C.O.G. 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People choose to smoke, and it is against their health.
People choose to have unmarried sex, with multiple partners, and it is also detritmental to their health.
People choose to eat copious amounts of food, and this is definately not good for them.
Your argument makes no sense. It's a choice; choose good or choose evil.
2007-02-05 11:10:01 · answer #4 · answered by arewethereyet 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, you can still choose.
At times, we make choices that seem good and are later found to be bad.
Yes. You can still eat the cheeseburger if you wish.
There are many who are suicidal. But God tells us that we should not take our own lives.
2007-02-05 11:08:57 · answer #5 · answered by Christian93 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋