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Post by cupcakes on Feb 8, 2018 18:13:40 GMT
tpfkar 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". No, you give them free will as an "argument". Having free will is meaningless as God obviously creates peeps both with free will and with what's needed to get in heaven - he just arbitrarily creates some with all the combination needed and some without. And cause and effect in no what impacts free will, as we're all part and parcel of it, clipping along, doing our thing. And if one actually believes that no actual choice exists, then trying to convince them or anyone of anything one way or another is high irrationality.
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