2007-06-26 09:31:14 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Completely.
Free will is a concept developed to counter the calvanist's predestination doctrine.
Christians realized that if all was predestined then God must be a Jerk for creating people destined for an eternal hell.
So voila! Free Will.
Unfortunately free will is completely impossible if God is all knowing, and created Lucifer knowing he would create sin and the need for hell in the first place.
2007-06-26 09:35:09 · answer #1 · answered by ɹɐǝɟsuɐs Blessed Cheese Maker 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Free will makes every person a moral responsible human being. Man was not created by God as a robot. The freedom of choice is the foundation for every persons volition so that no one could blame anybody but the culprit himself. No one can blame God or anybody that he is destained in hell or in heaven because God put him there. It is man's personal will to acquire for himself what he wants to be as he thinks of.
Therefore, the good news after all is "Whosoever will".
2007-06-26 09:51:35 · answer #2 · answered by periclesundag 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
So many misuse freewill. Hardly anyone chooses to really know what it is. Simply put, freewill is the ability of our human will to choose only those good things that make us free. Just because we can choose things that are not good for us or are a lesser good is not an indication of freewill. Believing this is a compromise to what it is.
Freewill is not an indication of evil, but evil is an indication that our freewill is impaired. And those who have mental illness it is an indication that their freewill to choose only those good things that free them is seriously impaired. This is what the authors of the Genesis account is expressing in the myth of Adam and Eve. We chose something less than freedom and have done so since.
We chose to have moral autonomy from God. "We say what is good and evil from now on and need no God to tell us!" That is what reaching for and eating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil is expressing in Genesis.
I have been visiting this site for a year now and notice a lot of people writing and saying this same thing. They are saying there is no need for us to rely on God for what is right and wrong because we have our own "moral compass" so to speak. Little do they realize they act the same way as Adam and Eve. The authors of Genesis has covered this issue for many centuries before any of us were thought of and we still consider them as primitive. Obviously they knew more about the human condition than we think.
But I digress. Since freewill is our will's ability to choose only those good things that make us free. Then we have to cover the issue of freedom. Just what is freedom? As St. Thomas Aquinas teaches, freedom is doing what we ought and not what we want. Of course this is in line with our freewill. Our will is to choose only the supreme good that leads to freedom. Freedom is the singular supreme good that we choose. Freedom is not having alternatives or many choices or saying anything we want. Does it make sense to choose things that partially free us, when we desire to be totally free? Does it make sense to choose things that enslave us when we desire total freedom? Doesn't it make sense to make a singular choice for the supreme good that offers complete freedom? And so, you see Freedom is a supreme good and the choice for it is singular not diverse.
The same thing with free speech the choice and what it is is singular. Free speech is not having the right to say whatever we want. Free speech is having the right to say what is only true without hinderance or foolishness. I wish the entertainment industry would understand this.
Anyway, I hope this helps you understand something of freedom and freewill. Neither is an excuse, but a human ability and destiny. May the Lord bless and keep you. May the light of His face shine upon you.
God's and your beast of burden
Fr. john
2007-06-26 10:31:19 · answer #3 · answered by som 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-18 23:59:56 · answer #4 · answered by hyler 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope. It's just another flawed concept.
2007-06-26 09:36:48 · answer #5 · answered by like a BOSS 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely. If a person kills someone, they say the murderer is exercising "free will." But, no one ever talks about the "free will" of the victim. I wonder why that is?
2007-06-26 09:38:04 · answer #6 · answered by YY4Me 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No.God knows action and aftermath.Whilest the result may or maynot please human,Who knows whats behind the plan but exept God.Since what we do not understand may be beyound us then God knows best.For those who said you cannot prove there is God..can they also prove there is not God?
2007-06-26 09:59:17 · answer #7 · answered by G.xi 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God made me with the ability to choose not answer this question.
2007-06-26 10:20:12 · answer #8 · answered by Runedog 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, not at all. Do you have a "free will" to choose to live a Christian life or a atheists life? If so, then the system is working pretty good, isn't it. If you choose to be an atheists, thats no fault of God. Pops
2007-06-26 09:36:06 · answer #9 · answered by Pops 6 · 0⤊ 4⤋
That and:
The Lord moves in mysterious ways.
2007-06-26 09:38:58 · answer #10 · answered by Simon T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋