If I was 'sent' hell it certaintly would be againt my will.
Like when you get sent to prison, no matter how you try to say the criminal is sending hemself there, he is going there against his will, no one freely elects to go to prison.
In the same way, no one freely elects to go to hell, no matter how you try to say they are 'sending themselves there'.
So does the existance of hell impede on our free will in the most importaint way?
2007-07-01 10:01:06 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
If we first concede that free-will exists then, yes,...
... I think the idea of Hell would certainly affect it.
Imagine, if you will,...
... the freedom of those who lived before the implementation of such religious foundations and tenets;...
... those whose only options were 'Life' or --- 'Oblivion':
No make-believe trappings of Heaven or Hell,...
no Pearly Gates or Lake of Fire,...
no absolution or damnation,...
...just 'on' --- and 'off'.
Take Christianity, for example:
For 2000 years this religion has taken the mundane assurance of 'death' and has morphed it into a supernatural 'non-death'; --- an 'afterlife'.
Given this,... I think I was born WAY too late...:-))
"The Christian conception of God…- is one of the most corrupt conceptions of God arrived at on earth.: perhaps it even represents the low-water mark in the descending development of the God type. God degenerated to the contradiction of life, instead of being its transfiguration and eternal Yes! In God a declaration of hostility towards life, nature, the will to life! God the formula for every calumny of ‘this world’, for every lie about ‘the next world’! In God nothingness defied, the will to nothingness sanctified!..."
- Nietzsche
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2007-07-01 10:14:35 · answer #1 · answered by Saint Christopher Walken 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Being sent to prison does not impede on your free will (unless you were framed). You chose to commit a crime knowing the consequences. Having free will includes being able to put yourself in a position where free will might be taken away from you.
If you believe Hell exists, which I don't, I suppose it's the same.
2007-07-01 10:18:36 · answer #2 · answered by Citizen Justin 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I like the example that Richard Dawkins used in The God Delusion. Let's say a man has a son. And he tells his son that he can choose to love him or not, but if he chooses not to, he will put him in an oven and cook him. hmmm that doesn't sound like much of a choice to me. Free will is an illusion when the consequence for making the wrong choice is eternal suffering
2007-07-01 11:40:16 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are under the assumption that one doesn't freely chooseThink of heaven and hell as positional and not places Heaven is close to God and Hell as distant from God. You choose by your behavior whether you go close to or away from God. If you choose to not be near God now you get to be away from God later. You choose.That is free will.
2007-07-01 10:17:15 · answer #4 · answered by David F 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Free will is always within God's limits. What comes to eternity, you free will is limited between the choice of hell and heaven.
I do not think anyone would choose hell if they believed in it. So they choose not to believe in it. That is a choice not to choose heaven. That is a choice.
2007-07-01 10:22:10 · answer #5 · answered by Nina, BaC 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Free will is the ability to make moral choices, not the ability to avoid the consequences of making bad moral choices. Your hypothetical criminal did have the free will to choose whether commit a crime or not.
2007-07-01 10:36:18 · answer #6 · answered by Deof Movestofca 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hell..is a state of mind, we all have free will to choose our way in this world, chose wrongly and live out the effects, choose rightly and live out different effects, there is not a human on this planet that does not know the difference between right and wrong in any behaviour towards others.
2007-07-01 10:08:54 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you reject Jesus, you freely elect to go to hell. You can forget your free-will for some things. God has absolutes and they do not change for you or anybody else.
2007-07-01 10:09:49 · answer #8 · answered by Jeancommunicates 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People clearly know what the penalty for crime is, yet they choose to commit the crime. no one forces people to commit crimes, they do it of their own freewill knowing they will be put into prison.
People know that rejection of Jesus is punished with eternal punishment, yet of their own freewill they reject Jesus and will pay the price.
All actions have their consequences. we freely choose our actions knowing that they will have consequences.
2007-07-01 10:14:32 · answer #9 · answered by wordoflifeb216 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That sorta sounds like a cop out. You cannot be so blind as to not see that when you do something, you have to accept the consequences.
With all the warnings and whatnot, you are sending yourselt to Hell, you might not like it, but you are.
2007-07-01 10:04:59 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋