Ideas are not inscribed in our DNA and are learned later in life. That means God was invented by the human mind and passed down ever since infancy as family tradition or influenced by society. No human being on this planet is born with beliefs in God or anything else. This is why people over several generations have been following different Gods all over the world. So before you give me the free will speech notice that people are not born with it. If you need conclusive evidence and this does not provide enough evidence for you, then just look at our reproductive cells we need for biological reproduction and ask your self this. Does sperm and egg believe in God?
2007-08-20 10:09:36 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
no my logic is not flawed. Clearly were talking about free will at birth
2007-08-20 10:17:25 · update #1
Free will as defined by websters dictionary.
2 : freedom of humans to make choices that are not determined by prior causes or by divine intervention.
Source
http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/free%20will
2007-08-20 10:24:51 · update #2
I see it more of Natural Instinct than Free will at birth.
2007-08-20 10:26:35 · update #3
Sorry when I meant Free will, I meant Free will at birth... I should of mentioned that somewhere.
2007-08-20 10:29:55 · update #4
gjmb, I never said God didn't exist, I wanted to say we didn't believe in him at birth, therefor I assumed it was taught. I meant free will at birth... before the baby is able to make its choices, outside of natural instinct.
2007-08-20 10:39:47 · update #5
Free will does not have anything to do with God, it has to do with being human.
I agree with you on the rest.
I disagree. I have three kids and they were all VASTLY different at birth as far as how they responded to everything around them. You are working off of the "Blank Slate" theory which has been disproven.
2007-08-20 10:12:24 · answer #1 · answered by ~Heathen Princess~ 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
You are mixing up several things and i dont see now what exactly you are trying to say.
- Free will does not exist
- everyone is born without beliefs
therefore God doesnt exist.
How do you come to that conclusion ?
Clearly sperm and egg can not believe since only together they can become a human.
2007-08-20 17:28:14 · answer #2 · answered by gjmb1960 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are born with free will, but no one knows of God or of any greater forces-- those are taught by the respective culture and religion of your parents and surroundings. Everything has free will, but nothing is born with religion, as religion and belief in such are constructs of humans, not the other way around.
There is a differnece between free will and religion. A huge difference.
2007-08-20 17:21:10 · answer #3 · answered by mathaowny 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have found some Scriptures that give credence to the fact that we are born with a form of knowledge of God, and it's called your " conscience ".
In the Book of John, CH. 8: 7- 9, it says : " So when they continued asking Him, He raised Himself up and said to them, ' He who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone at her first '. And again He stooped down and wrote on the ground. Then, those who heard it, being convicted by their" conscience", went out one by one, beginning with the oldest even to the last. And Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst." NIV. The woman was brought to Jesus by the Pharisees, saying she was caught in adultery, which was then punishable by stoning. The point is, when Jesus said for the one without sin to throw the first stone, the Pharisees were convicted " IN THEIR CONSCIENCE." Webster's dictionary describes conscience as " the KNOWLEDGE OF RIGHT AND WRONG. " That is something we are born with, it's not taught. It would be impossible to teach conscience. We have a knowledge of what God deems right and wrong born in us, and later , as we grow, we automatically know what is right and wrong, and we have been able to know this since Adam & Eve disobeyed God in the Garden of Eden & then they knew good & evil for the first time since God created them. No, sperm & egg do not believe in God, but the conscience God gave us at birth enables us to know right from wrong.
2007-08-20 18:44:54 · answer #4 · answered by The Count 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We made the free will choice before we were born that covers it until we reach the age of accountability.
2007-08-20 17:22:30 · answer #5 · answered by single eye 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
of course people are born with free will... it's inherent in the most minor of things, such as a small child playing with a toy. the child decides to play with it on his own; he isn't told to do so. the whole idea of free will is that we make our own decisions in life and process our own thoughts. both of those are fundamentals of human existence. to the very most basic degree, we exercise our will in order to appease natural instinctive urges such as curiosity, problem-solving, attaining what we are able to in order to survive, and any other such things necessary for maintenance of homeostasis... but we as individuals quite clearly all choose our own methods of going about these practices, which is the whole point of 'free will' to begin with.
2007-08-20 17:22:28 · answer #6 · answered by killer_ballerina 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If free will does not exist, than the opposite, by logic is predestination. Who predestines things if not God?
Your logic is flawed.
Clearly it is, because if there is NO FREE WILL, there is only PREDESTINATION.
Again, your logic is flawed.
"Does sperm and egg believe in God?"
FLAWED LOGIC.
Do sperm and egg have brains? Do sperm and egg have any cognitive process at all? Do sperm and egg believe in their own existence?
FLAWED LOGIC. FLAWED QUESTION.
2007-08-20 17:13:55 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
the Bible says that everyone is born with the light.
2007-08-20 17:21:29 · answer #8 · answered by 777 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
thats not correct...even at 2 wks old my son would cry for nothing just to get attention...i had to reassure him
2007-08-20 17:12:44 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋