Where is the free will if you have to comply with ten commandments in order to respect and live under the umbrella of this christian law written in stone by God?
2007-02-12 15:26:57 · 21 answers · asked by Bastian22 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Most of you have answered based on your opinion, without thinking or taking the time to even search in Yahoo, it is the purpose of this 'feature', to use the search engine and do a research, then answer with at least one source to back up your answer. Take for example this quote:
"If I were to speak your kind of language, I would say that man's only moral commandment is: Thou shalt think. But a 'moral commandment' is a contradiction in terms. The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments." by: Ayn Rand in Atlas Shrugged.
For ex: read full article,
The Ten Commandments vs. America
http://www.aynrand.org/site/news2?page=n...
"If a person is incapable of arguing the issue, he/she argues the semantics, and if incapable of arguing the semantics, attacks the personality" Don't call a person a moron, debate
2007-02-14 09:42:36 · update #1
Because Christians are not to think for themselves. They are great servants to their God by virtue of not their love, but rather, their pain of Sin and Guilt.
Whereas the rest of us "regulars" go about our business from day to day--doing whatever it is that we each think is right.
2007-02-12 15:38:48 · answer #1 · answered by zentularis 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Just because your actions may be already known to another, say God, does not mean you don't have Free Will. Let's say you are a Father and you see your son playing with a mousetrap. You have told him time and again not to do that, but little Johnny ignores your wise admonishments. So, you say to yourself, well this time I will let him learn the hard way; sure enough this time the mousetrap snaps Johnny just hard enough to make him never do it again.
Now, did Johnny exercise Free Will even though you KNEW what he was going to do?
Or suppose you are dating and angle a nice dinner table, great movie, moonlit ride, and afterwards some dancing. Suppose you arranged all of these things with a motive you hoped to achieve and only you knew about it. Are your behind the scenes machinations robbing the object of your schemes of their Free Will?
We are all born with a moral code imprinted within our minds, very similar to that described in the Commandments. How is that robbing anyone of their Free Will, unless you expect society to degenerate into chaos and complete hedonism.
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2007-02-12 23:44:20 · answer #2 · answered by Ask Mr. Religion 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Free will means we have the ability, that God gave us, to make a decision to do right or wrong. At the same time, if we choose to do the wrong thing, we should be ready and willing to suffer the consequences. WE decide what to do, whether or not to follow the Ten Commandments. We are not puppets or we wouldn't need the Ten Commandments to give us guidance. Actually, Jesus said there are TWO great commandments: a)you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength. b) love your neighbor as yourself (Mark 12:28-31). If you can follow those two, you have the TEN covered.
2007-02-12 23:35:44 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You have the free will, and many Christians exercise it, not to follow the ten commandments. But, with free will there is also responsibility in knowing that certain choices generate certain consequences, be them good or bad. Is it illegal to kill another human being in America? No, it isn't, as there are circumstances that lead to this happening, as is a police officer defending himself. But, even in doing so, there are consequences. He doesn't get jailed for it, but there are consequences in how he may feel about the action. A murder may not feel bad about killing someone, but the consequences is jail. He exercised his right of free will by taking away another person's right to live free of the fear of crime.
2007-02-13 00:31:16 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The fact that there are laws in place, either civil laws or God's law, does not in any way interfere with an individual's free choice to obey or not obey those laws. We can freely choose to obey civil law, or commit crimes. We can freely choose to obey God's law or commit sin. If we were unable to violate the law, then we would have no free will; but since we are completely free to make that choice, we do have free will.
2007-02-12 23:47:15 · answer #5 · answered by PaulCyp 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What you're saying is it is foolish to live one's life by a specific moral code or set of values. Regardless of a person's religious beliefs, we all ("we" as in those who strive to lead good lives) live by our own selected ethics and morals. In the Christian's case, he lives by the Ten Commandments. In the agnostic's case, he might simply live by the values his parents instilled in him. But the common thread is, anyone who wants to be a good person devotes themselves to living by a certain standard. In your misguided attempt to negate the entire Christian faith, you have told the entire Yahoo! Answers community that you are an ignorant, rambling, amoral jackass.
P.S. Christians have the "free will" to be Christians. The entire premise of your argument is broken with this one, simple truth. Moron.
2007-02-12 23:44:35 · answer #6 · answered by Leroy Johnson 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Those laws are for our own good and God only wants what is best for us. There are always consequences to choosing to do good or bad and that's just how it is. God does not have those laws just because he says so, he is also looking out for us. If you break those laws then you will suffer the consequences for things like stealing, murder, and adultery. Your life is going to be like hell on earth for doing these things and other people will be affected too so we can always do whatever we want but will have to reap what we sow whether we choose good or bad.
2007-02-13 01:23:19 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The assumption that anyone who chooses to follow a legal or moral standard lacks free will is a logical fallacy. All humans choose to follow a moral standard, so they exercise self-control with respect to such things. The very exercise of self-control demonstrates free will.
2007-02-12 23:31:49 · answer #8 · answered by chdoctor 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You got that wrong Jews follow the Ten Commandments Christians follow the Lord Jesus Christ
2007-02-12 23:31:26 · answer #9 · answered by Troy G 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Free will simply means we have the choice to obey or not. I've broken some or the commandments from time to time and I'm sorry that I did. But it was my own choice. Obedience is a choice also.
2007-02-12 23:32:52 · answer #10 · answered by out of the grey 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Christ came not to abolish the Law of Moses, but to fulfill the Law. Christ came to save the world not condemn the world.
We follow, or should I say, we try to follow not only the Ten Commandments but the many commandments (direct and indirect) that Christ gave us to follow.
Our free will comes in the equation... when we opt to either follow or not follow. Same as your free will.. you opt not to believe and follow... where we opt to follow and believe.
2007-02-12 23:34:02 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋