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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2018 18:04:03 GMT
tpfkar Free will doesn't exist. Every choice made by every person is the product of a complex chain of causality that started at the inception of the universe. Did you choose your own disposition, your upbringing, the events to which you have been exposed to in your life, etc? You can't choose which thoughts to think before you think them, and no choice can ever be uncaused. You can't direct your brain to think a thought before the thought exists in your conscious mind. Even if you posited the existence of an immaterial soul, then there would have to be something causing the soul to choose the way it did, and so on, ad infinitum. Therefore if God exists and evil exists, evil is inherent in God's design for the universe. Nobody without an axe to grind ever thought the infinite regression of choosing "your own disposition, your upbringing, the events to which you have been exposed to in your life, etc" or to "direct your brain to think a thought before the thought exists in your conscious mind". However we got as we are, we are us, and we make choices nonstop according to who we are, what we want, etc., the very definition for "free will". God being a bastard for making things the way they are when he didn't have to doesn't make the bastards he created any less bastards, nor does it mean they aren't making choices based on their wants, character, and characteristics, however they got that way.
Does Free Will Exist?Christian theology needs absolute free will that is independent of causality. Without that form of free will, evil cannot be the fault of mankind, and a lottery determines who will accept Christ as saviour. Nobody would suggest that they aren't "making choices based on their wants, character, and characteristics", but none of that is any different from what would happen in a deterministic universe without what you call "free will". |
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