2007-03-04 02:08:39 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
We don't have free will the way most think we do. Will is not free if the consequences are not known.
What "free will" really covers is our mind has free will over our bodies. If our bodies (that part of us that keeps us alive and going whether we are awake/aware or not) had any choice in the matter, it wouldn't let us do a LOT we do.
2007-03-04 02:21:22 · answer #1 · answered by American Spirit 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It depends on your point of view.
Free will is something that God has given us, but you need to realize that it has its limitations.
Christianity teaches that our free will is so powerful that it can supersede the will of God. This is simple nonsense. God loves us too much to ever allow this to happen.
Our free will is constrained by the choices God makes available to us. That is all of the possible choices that are available to us, lead eventually to the exact same outcome. Some take us in more circuitous pathways but all of the possible choices eventually lead us back home to God.
So the answer is actually yes and no. We do have free will but it is constrained by the choices God allows for us to pick from. God simply loves us too much to allow us any choices that would allow us to become permanently lost to Him.
Many religions teach that this is not the case, that we can become forever lost due to our choices. This is a simple lack of faith in Gods love for us. A simple misunderstanding No more no less.
Love and blessings
Don
2007-03-04 02:12:06 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
If you mean we do not have the ability to look to God for salvation, I am also of that persuasion. Free will to continue in our sin nature and therefore condemnation before the Lord, but theologically, no, we do not have free will.
2007-03-04 02:35:21 · answer #3 · answered by ccrider 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I, like everyone else, have freewill.
My life is governed by decisions that I have made, no one else.
My position, or lack there of, in life is strictly the result of decisions that I have made, some good some not so good.
2007-03-04 02:13:22 · answer #4 · answered by drg5609 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is no free lunch out there, and no free will either. I was predestined to answer this question, so here I am.
2007-03-04 05:55:13 · answer #5 · answered by Benji 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋