Does no free will eliminate God?

Question

Free will doesn't exist, so what does that mean for Christians?

If you disagree and say it does exist, then why can't we find it? The brain is causal, thus far we haven't found a soul connector in the brain for transmitting to-from our souls...

Every year (more like every month) we learn more about the brain and how it makes outputs (decisions) based on its inputs. Once upon a time it was called “psychology”, but these days it is approaching the neuron level – we’re not just theorizing based on external behaviors, we’re discovering how the different parts of our brain “talk” to each other, and decoding all the action up there. Though we don’t fully understand it yet, we understand A LOT and its an increasingly clear picture.

Maybe you don’t accept that, you say science is wrong (typical Christian statement)... then won’t it be interesting to see what comes of the brain debate? In the coming decades the brain will be laid bare – we will understand every last signal

Answer 1

First off, "you say science is wrong (typical Christian statement)... " To this I say that Science is GREAT, however, man tears it down. He studies things that really are not necessary at all, and does not spend enough time to study things that do matter {animal testing and the stuff like that, who would apply shampoo to the eyes, }anyhoot

Free Will is evident in ever day life, You either choose to get up and go to work to make a living, or you choose to not work and be a couch potato.
You choose to do it because you know that you need to pay bills, and buy your wants.
or you could choose to steal them, it is after all your choice

Answer 2

Well, finally one I haven't heard....free will doesn't exist? That woke me up. I chose to answer this of my own free will. LOL Haven't found a "soul connector" transmitting .....hey, the soul is not material matter. You won't find a physical transmitter in the brain matter. Nothing wrong with science. Actually true science agrees with the Bible. If you want to speed up your understanding for the "clear picture" you need to get the "spiritual connection" to transmit to your brain. The things of God are spiritually discerned and are as foolishness to the natural mind. Receive Jesus as your Savior and the Holy Spirit will immediately indwell your physical body and give you all the decoding, transmitted connections you can handle. Really. No need to wait decades. Understanding is available now. Now is the appointed time. Will you receive Christ today?

Answer 3

The brain has physical substance and the soul is spiritual. Why do you feel there needs to be a connection? People who have had OBE's and NDE's report of their soul, orb, or "being" was connected to the physical body by a cord. The Bible is in agreement with this:

Ecclesiastes 12:6
"Remember Him before the silver cord is broken and the golden bowl is crushed..."

Free will is another matter. We can not love without it. God could demand our love, but we would be nothing more than obedient robots. Love, to be love, must be given of our own free will. Could this be the reason we have it? Perhaps our reason for existence? Why is it that most of our books, movies, songs, etc.. are about it, or the lack of it?

This also reminded me of the movie "21 grams" with Sean Penn. The title of the movie comes from the work of Dr. Duncan MacDougall, who in the early 1900s sought to measure the weight purportedly lost by a human body when the soul departed the body upon death. MacDougall weighed dying patients in an attempt to prove that the soul was material, tangible and thus measurable. These experiments are widely considered to have had little if any scientific merit, and although MacDougall's results varied considerably from 21 grams, for some people this figure has become synonymous with the measure of a soul's mass.

Now you are ready for a game of Trivia!

Answer 4

Why did you write this question? Did someone force you to sit down and write it or did you sit down and write because you wanted to write it? If so, that is free will. If you get up and go to change the channel on the TV because the program is boring. That is free will. Everyone has free will. It is how you use it that counts.

Speaking as one who is dying from a neuro degenerative disease- I did not free will my cerebellum to sputter out on me. But I'm answering your question through my free will when I could have passed it by.

Just because you can't see something, doesn't mean its not there. Can you see "the mind"? Can you touch "a thought"... no. You can only touch the neurons involved in that process but you cannot touch the thought. Yet, it exists.

Answer 5

Forget all the malarky ! You know the difference between doing what is right or what is wrong which do you choose ? You have the free will to decide your action. God is always in existance and can not be eliminated. You may separate yourself from all belief and eliminate God personally from your life. Another choice you have.

Answer 6

did they charge you for deciding to ask this ********question?
I don't know about god and sometimes if even good exists with some people but I would hope you realize that you have choices to think out in your mind of course in defference to science if your have a mind and hopr you think enough to make good ones provided of course you haven't recieved a chemical lobotomy or were born anacephlytic ....
peace

Answer 7

You would have to explain what you think free will is, before I can retort.