If God wanted us to have perfect free will, why are we all not given equal attributes.?

Question

By giving people so many different levels of intelligence, physical strength and dexterity and even creating people with bodies and minds that are weakend from the very beginning, how can God be giving us all freedom of choice to do what we want with out lives. I mean...there still could have been different characteristics to make us individuals, but why not give us all equal oppurtinites in life?

Answer 1

Each of us is made a unigue individual with different abilities and talents. We are not robots.

We have free will...non-believers can never understand this concept. We make choice in our life, we do what we choose, hopefully knowing right from wrong.

If we were all the same, it would be extremely boring, we would all have the same job and want to marry the same person, all our homes would be the same. And our DNA would not keep us from getting blamed for things we did not do.

The Skeptical Christian
Grace and Peace
Peg

Answer 2

I answered this last night but see that it has been removed by some higher power. Basically I replied: Check your dictionary for the definition of unconditional. God's love is, without a doubt based on conditions. Speaking to humanity through the Prophet Amos God delivers an insane tirade threatening to frighten us so badly that we will tremble at the sound a leaf makes when the wind blows. He promises to make us so hungry we will eat our own children. But, IF we follow his commands THEN He will remember his covenant with Abraham. God invented "tough love". He opened the Earth and swallowed the entire tribe of Rueben because he loved them so much. After leading the Tribes through the wilderness for 40 years, Moses was allowed to view the Holy Land from a distance but not enter. God killed Moses rather than let him set foot in the Holy Land!! That's tough love, and it's conditional. It's conditional.

Answer 3

Excellent question. I often wonder about that as well. I am starting to feel like Job in the bible. I have worked so hard and tried so hard, yet, nothing good seems to come. Wish I was on top, but I keep my faith, and do my best to accept, what it is, on my path.......... I was at one time a Christian (Episcopalian), but the prejudice and all the hypocrites. So, I turned to Native spirituality. It was then God, at least, helped to make life bearable. But as for free will, seems to be a good explanation no matter what challenges and character defects we are born with. I am very blessed as well, my Ph.D., awsome musician, handsome and so forth.

Answer 4

We are all capable of doing anything like anyone else, but it's people's free will that effect the equal attributes. Most people end up where they are because of they're family's previous decisions. One might be filthy rich because their grandfather invested money and got lucky and raked in millions. Another person might have done the same thing but lost everything and ended up poor. With out our free will we would all be equal, but because of free will we are different and make different decisions in life that lead us to different places. Hope I made sense. :P

Answer 5

One reason which Budhism provides to your question is that, in the beginning all are created equally but based on our karma (actions or deeds) we are re-born into this world according to what we made in our past life. Life takes birth-death cycle and our soul won't take birth again if we achieve enlightenment (or) we are then liberated. This is how Budhism explains your question.

Even though i stuides comparative religion for a while and like the good concentps in every religion, i personally believe that we are not created at all. We are evolved creatures and there is considerable proof for evolution. I believe, we are just a by-product of the major event called BIG-BANG and when we die, that's it, the world comes to an end with respect to the one who is dead.

Answer 6

God didn't give each of us anything but a world and free will. We made the world what it is.
It always amazes me that people expect God to be a busy-body baby-sitter, saving them from every disaster they find themselves in.

WE GOT KICKED OUT! We have to earn our way back in. We don't get a free-bee, particularly when we still commit the same mistake "Adam and Eve" did over and over without giving it up, even amongst the very religious!

Hard to be simpathetic for a race that sabotages itself so willingly.

Answer 7

perhaps he wanted some people to do certain things. The different levels, could be something that we could all learn from. I think that if we were all the same, then no one would have ever been oppressed and no one would have learned from it, or became better as a society. Also, where as one man is weaker in thinking, he may be stronger in body. Where one can not dance, he shall sing.

Answer 8

We are all equal in the sight of God and all have access to the gifts of the Spirit. Moses was slow of speech, Paul had poor eyesight, Joseph of the Old Testament was abandoned as a child by his brothers, etc. In our weaknesses God is made strong. What is "perfect" free will? Not mine, but thine.

Answer 9

Perhaps he did

whom ever proved time was linear and could not be folded?

Perhaps your sole is in yourself, and also in every person whom you know, and God has given you six billion plus chances for freedom of choice in six billion different life scenarios.

according to the bible there is a scripture which says that it is appointed unto man once to die, and after death the judgment, however it does not rule out that God's judgment is not to return us in another body.

With God all things are possible, and perhaps our freedom is to choose him out of true love for him, or to deny him.

Answer 10

Free will is not intelligence. What sort of attributes we each have two ears, two eyes, one nose, and a mouth, What we do With them is called free will. As far as equal opportunity that calls for intelligence for example you Ashton are not as intelligent as a Banana Snake.