God vs. free will?

Question

ok, from what I see, all it takes to be successul is a determined mind. If you look at history and some of the biggest bastards out there; Hit.., Europeans conquering America, etc, they all succeeded in their plans. What I want to know is, why doesn't God intervene with such plans; it seems it's all just about will power and where does that leave the hot shot?

thanx

ps) if you can, pl. cite something from the Bible that would answer my question

Answer 1

Listen to God, you can't listen with effort. That is nature which make you perfect, not civilisation. We are God since we are not in reality, but in dream. Imagine more, you will see the world not as "I exist independantly, there is others". The will to victory and quantity are very not your nature.
You are the will of joy, you let thing happen naturally, never expect safety and succeed.

Answer 2

Under the doctrine of absolute pre-determination, society cannot hold us responsible if we decide to get drunk and our actions result in an automobile accident. Such incidents would have been part of a chain of causality that originated with the beginning of the universe. If we have no Free Will, there can be no responsibility and no punishments. Society could not exist.

The speculation that we have no free will defies common sense and our everyday experience of life. With the intervention of free will, our future, and thus the future of the universe, will follow a path different from the path it would have pursued without our intervention.

In addition to scientific considerations, common sense insists that Free Will exists. Who would deny that we have Free Will when we put one foot in front of the other and decide, of our own volition, of our own Free Will, to go for a walk or not go for a walk this afternoon? It is clearly irrational to believe that a chain of causality (pre-determination) at the time of the Big Bang determines if we go for a walk this afternoon, or not.

Answer 3

God gave people free will to do with it what they please. If someone only cares about this life and not the next they are missing the big picture. God gave us free will as a great gift so were not all robots but because of that you have to take both good and bad. The reason God stays out of it (although I would like to think he works in ways that are not always plain to see) is becouse it is up to us to make the world the best place we can and people who don't follow any rules will win most of the time. That is untill it's time to pay up, then you will notice they all cry and whine about not knowing.
He's there, you just can't see him, but He's always there.

Answer 4

If you look at the scripture in the box below, you'll see that there comes a time of accounting for all.

1. Christians must suffer. If they have faith and endurance they will be saved.
2. This system off things is temporary and destined to be destroyed.
3. God is loving toward all his children, wicked and good! The wicked are permitted to do their deeds for a time, to become filthy rich, some are permitted a life of crime. Then they die for all eternity. No suffering in death, but eternal death!
4. Once the wicked have filled up their cup of sins, they die perhaps at the half of their possible lifespan.
5. God will undo all evil done that needs undoing in the Paradise his Kingdom will create on earth.

Answer 5

God gave us all a free will. Whether it was to follow Him or to reject Him. He doesnt make us do anything nor does He stay when we ask Him to leave. For example, people ask, "If God was such a good loving God, then why did September 11 happen?" Well, America has pretty much told God to leave. So they can expect God to protect them when they dont want the protection. It's America's choice whether to invite God to be with them or leave them.

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Answer 6

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Answer 7

The way i see it there are 2 possibilities:
1. God does not exist
2. God does exist, but as a creator of the WHOLE INFINITE UNIVERSE cannot care LESS for an insignificant species living on an insignificant planet under insignificant star in an insignificant galaxy.

Answer 8

Your questions seems to be linked to deeper questions concerning the intentions of the Creator in the creation of the world. Since you ask for biblical references, I will provide answers from a theistic perspective. God's revelation would seem to indicate that God has given us, in creation, everything that we need to flourish, but human choices and decisions mitigate this gift. As to the why of our refusal and why we have the capacity to choose evil over good, the answer is deeply mysterious. From the standpoint of many spiritual masters, our freedom to decide, to choose, is necesssary for us be truly capable of acts of virtue and love, which by their nature cannot be co-erced in order for them to be truly loving and virtuous. So, there is within us this great potential for decency and compassion, but there is also the possibility that we might choose otherwise. The paradox is that the alternative to love and virtue would really be a prison of our own making-- the choice of evil does not make us free-- that is the sense of things from the standpoint of God's revelation in the Bible. In fact, much of the Bible is the working out of this sense of the things in narrative form, rather than through philosophical argument.

As far as God's intervention, how does one know that God has not intervened in the events of history? In the Bible, God works primarily through secondary causes, and who is to say that in the events and circumstances of life, one is not encountering one of these secondary causes by which human affairs are being shaped and directed. We might prefer his intervention to look and be like something that we might want, but God is free, it would seem, free to make judgements that are different from our own-- judgements that may or may not please us.

In terms of some of your examples, fidelity and obedience would be seen as far more important values than success or determination in terms of a biblical vision. God has an uncanny ability in the Bible to choose what is small and insignificant and make it into something that ultimately becomes important, and the measure of this importance are not things like success of determination, but as I said, stranger, more upsetting values, like fidelity and obedience. Also, most of the victories associated with the building of nations and empires are ultimately pyrrhic, having within them rather ambiguous results and sowing the seeds of the dissolution of those political and cultural powers.

Finally, free will, is conceived by many as a kind of absolute. But such an absolute cannot be possible for us, we are finite creatures who exist in a state of radical contingency. Whatever freedom we might possess would be exercised in a very mitigated way. Many assert we have free will, but what they really mean is that they would like to be able to live and make whatever decisions they can without some kind of power to external to themselves getting involved-- like a goverment, a religion, or a Divine Being. Free will as an absolute seems to me to be an illusion of modernity, but this is not to say that there are not very important things in life that we can and must decide-- it's just that these decisions will never be exercised with absolute, unmitigated freedom. And here's a final shocker-- not even God is free in an absolute sense, because God is not free to act against his own nature.