“Is freewill perfect? Then nothing imperfect can come from it. Is freewill imperfect? Then why does god have freewill? If god has no freewill, then why can god love/ can’t do sin? Is god both have freewill and can love/can’t do sin? Why not create man that way?” – influenced by Epicurus
2007-07-04 10:08:14 · 13 answers · asked by 8theist 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Free will is a concept, It is neither perfect or imperfect,.
2007-07-04 10:16:46 · answer #1 · answered by punch 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Can I address the definition of freewill first? By this, you mean the ability to choose and act, correct? Then: 1. Sin no more comes from free will than righteousness does. Rather, sin is a RESULT of choosing that which is against the natural order or law. 2. God does have free will but He does not choose to break what He himself has established nor does He, in my experience and understanding, act out of anything other than His own nature. 3. Addressed in answer two but I reiterate. He loves because that's what He is and that is His nature. Sin is selfish, self seeking and against His nature. (An insight as to why He hates it so much?) 4. Purely speculation but I think he did. (Created in His image, right?) Temptation doesn't equal sin. Adam and Eve had a choice on whether to trust God or act on the lie that was presented to them. Jesus was faced with a similiar situation but he refused the lie and continued to trust in God. Personally, I don't see much of a problem in regards to freewill. Only in the choices that are made.
2016-05-18 01:43:29 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
True freewill is an unknown entity to most people. They think freewill is making a choice on their own with their computer, their brain. The brain, or mind, gets in the way of freewill so most of us never ever attain it. Your true freewill brings spiritual freedom. An expanded consciousness knows freewill. When our energy vibrations are raised our freewill explodes into action. Life then becomes real life, the kind Jesus lived and taught, but never could get his followers to understand. Jesus didn't teach religion. He taught freedom through freewill through raising our vibrational level as he had. Didn't he say do as I do? And, when will we ever do just that? Anyone that has raised their consciousness has left religion, like Jesus, and they know, they KNOW and live in their freewill.We are all gods and we need to lose the amnesia and remember who we are. Only then will you find freewill.
2007-07-04 10:26:26 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Freewill is not perfect, infact its not really free will at all. God threatens us with torture in the hell. Let me give an analogy: If someone puts a gun to my head and tells me to do something, I cant say that what I did was my own choice.
2007-07-04 10:16:38 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Free will gives a person the right to make a choice between good and evil, right and wrong. With a perfect free will, we would have that knowledge and always make the right choices. Since we are not perfect, our choices can not be always perfect. Our motivations may be selfish, for instance. God, on the other hand, has a perfect free will. He DOES have the choice between good and evil, right and wrong, but He CHOOSES to make the good and right choices. Had He not given us free will, He would have made robots who just did what their Creator willed. Would you want someone to love you because they had no choice in the matter? THAT would be a wonderful feeling, wouldn't it? Not. In being made in His image and likeness, as it says in the Bible, He chose to give us free will, responsibility, emotions, et al., just like He has. When the first man chose to disobey God's one command (not to eat the fruit from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil), he was deceived into believing that God was holding back on him because He didn't want His creation to be "equal" to him. In choosing to disobey God and obey the serpent (Satan), he switched his loyalty and obeisance to Satan. Man's destiny and that of his progeny was sealed. God had given this first Man the gift, among others, of governing of the earth and all that was in it (i.e., all of creation). When this Man switched his obeisance from God to Satan, all Man had, all God had given him, was now in the service of Satan instead of God. So, ever since then, mankind has struggled with choosing what's right and good ("God's way") and bad and evil ("Satan's way").
2007-07-04 11:17:37 · answer #5 · answered by baciditosca 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Man is a created being. God is and Uncreated Being. Man is influenced. God is Uninfluenced.
No man is an island unto himself....He therefore has freewill, but in the sense you mean perfect, he cannot have, since he is not perfect,i.e. God.
God cannot simultaneously create and uncreate man....
Peace
Robert
2007-07-04 10:23:14 · answer #6 · answered by bobbyhobbit 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Free will is more than the ability to choose between the choices presented, but also to find, and choose, the choices not presented. Free will is the ability to think beyond what you have been told it is possible to think.
When two men, (or "gods"), come up to you and say, "You can be a slave to one of us or the other," free will is the ability to choose to be slave to neither.
2007-07-04 10:20:10 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Epicurus is a complete idiot...
Free-Will is God's gift to Humanity and Free-Will is used by Spiritually intelligent people to accomplish this:
Create Your Relationship with Our Creator.
You obtain UnConditional Love and Peace by accomplishing Your Relationship.
2007-07-04 10:18:14 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
God is perfect. If there is no freewill, then we would be robots. So his choice to allow freewill is perfect since he doesn't want robots.
2007-07-04 10:16:38 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
the notion of free will is perverted, largely, and used out of its' original context. Because one may do some, or a few things because one has a choice in the matter does not mean that one is totally free in all matters.
2007-07-04 10:30:20 · answer #10 · answered by Greg 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋