Question about free will?
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Hmn... fun fun fun!\n\nOn one hand, we don't like chocolate. That's because that's how our tastebuds are made, in terms of sensitivity to pH level. On the other hand, we choose the lives we live and how we will live them before we live them. On the other hand, we have to do it until our soul learns enough. On the other, it's our soul's choice for when it wills itself into existence.\n\nChoice - the ability to decide to do one thing over another without being forced.
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The answer to your question is No! Because although we feel that when making a decision and ther are no physical constrainsts, it is easy to believe that we could have choosen otherwise. This is just an illusion as there are usually subconcious reasonings why you made that decision but of them we are rarely aware.\n\n"The vast majority of all the processing our brain does is subconscious; we ultimately have no idea why we prefer particular actions over others. We are, I believe, observers. We become aware of what our brains are thinking but don't have any free will. In other words, our consciousness is not a vessel of free will. but an attention-processing side-affect of the complexity of our brains. Free will itself is an illusion, although consciousness is obviously real we merely become conscious of our chosen actions. There is no philosophical free will."
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We all have free will - the ability to make choices, good or bad.  Many misuse this gift and choose to  hurt others.  Some, for whatever reason, don't seem to care who they hurt.  Some believe they are doing it for a good reason (like in war).\n\nWe can't control what other people choose to do.  From your question, it sounds like you are the sort that will choose to be kind to others. ;-)
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A person who is brainwashed doesn't have free will.  They may THINK that they do, but in reality, they do not.\n\nYou cannot have free will if the reasoning you are using to make your 'free' thinking decisions are tainted.
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Ah but is it a gift or a curse just to be able to ask that question? Free will is a concept not an actuality. Does it exist or is it an illusion? Either way...what should we make of it? (Nothing like answering a question with more questions.)Perhaps if we transposed the words---will free---we would be happier with the choices we choose to make.
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Because free will is all about choices. God know before a person chooses but HE doesnt choose for that person...its up to the person...People are finite, GOD IS INFINITE. That's what makes HIM GOD!!! And if you dont get it...be not dismayed...neither do I...but I believe and have faith in HIM who created heaven and earth.  He wants our love and He wants us to choose HIM...ptl
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Yes I am what I am by predestination, But that did not take away my free will, God gave us all a free will, But since God Knows the beginnning to the end, & by his foreknowledge as to what decsions we will make, Then based upon him knowing all things, then God can predestinate anyone based upon his knowledge as to what path we will take.
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that is a very good point,, i have always  thought, if i "feel/think/see"   things a certain way,,, that i was made to be this way,,,, and how can i be faulted for being made the way i am,,,, by a creator, so yes, if God works within us, to determine our will,,, then is it really free will? how would we even know?  maybe God works with us,, in helping develop our will,,,,, in that if we desire something,, we find the things we need, the resources,  but where did that desire come from in the first place,  even if its something we feel we thought up,, most likely we were influenced  by our life/our contacts in life,,, what caused us to come across those certain expeirences?  and why did we react in the way we did??
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It is not true that whatever we do, God gets it done by us.\nU don't see God Gave us free will But also Showed the right path...\n\nSo whatever we do is our own deeds.. If we do good, God is happy with us,\n& if we do bad deeds, God Obviously will punish!\n\n\nJust take this example..\nGod is our Creater...\nSimilarly A person or an electronics company creates a TV or VCR of DVD Player...\n\nSO ..\nThe company give an instruction manual with its product..\njust like God sent us to this world with Bible/ Quran etc..\n\nNow see!\nWhen the VCR does not work properly, we take it to a repair shop, if it does not still work properly, we throw it in trash...\nTHIS is a punishment for the VCR...\nSimilarly, when we dont follow the instructions from GOD, God will punish us.
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I am not exactly sure if the Bible says " you do or do not have freewill" specifically. But I believe that we do not have freewill, and the definition of freewill is "lack of internal compulsions". it talks in Romans nine how every intentional act is predestined to happen by God, and how even the evil doers, are used to accomplish his plan. this is why we "End up doing what God wants anyway." I believe that bad things happen for a reason as well and that they are Gods plan for our life. We may not be able to see the reason and we may never be able to, but that does not mean it was not his plan. And any suffering we endure is Gods will, and it may not seem fair or just to us, but Paul says in Romans who is the clay to question the potter, I fully agree with this, who are you and I to question the creator of the universe, and our heavenly father? I encourage you to read, "The Christian view of Man",  I cant remember the authors first name but his last name is Machen. Also Romans Chapter Nine, and parts of Hebrews.
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God gave us free will, and He is all knowing because He knows the choice we will make, but He doesn't force us into it.  We have to decide where we will spend eternity.
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false. You have free will whether you believe in the bible or not.  The bible is specific what you have free will.  The bible states that Satan can put things in front of you to temp you as can God.  But they cannot make you do it or take it.  They can only put it there its your choice whether you do it or not.  You are your own person with your owm mind.
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Free will.  Allowing us to choose to serve him with a willing heart, without forcing anyone to accept his sovereignty.
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It’s not that they no longer have free will. They simply no longer need it. Free will requires the exercise of perception based judgment. Judgment is necessary only until we learn that Love is the only appropriate response to any situation we are confronted with. At this point we are operating beyond perception and judgment with a faculty known as vision. That is, we see all as though we were seeing through Gods eyes. Angles already have reached this state of vision therefore they do not operate using either perception or judgment. Freewill is no longer necessary from their position of vision and knowledge.
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Yes. Flooding the world to destroy the evils of humanity would infringe on free will. There is no true free will in Christianity. It is only a term they throw around to convince themselves that their choice is based on something other than fear of an unlikely punishment.\n\nEven if Noah and his family were good people, while every other person in the world was evil, if god gave humans free will, then they had the freedom to choose evil. If you give someone a choice, you need to be prepared for the possibility that they will not choose what you wanted them to. If you give someone a choice, knowing that they will not choose the "right" answer and having a punishment in store for them in just that case, then you have set them up and are denying them free will. It is the spiritual equivalent of entrapment.
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The doctrine of free will is a lie.
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He knows what's going to happen no matter what we do. We have the free will to choose Him or to not, and to choose anything else or to not. He knows what we're going to choose or what we're going to do, but that doesn't stop us from being the ones who choose it. See? If He created humans without free will, then His reason behind the creation would be pointless. We'd just be like puppets on a string, running around doing what He wants. He doesn't want that. He didn't create us to be something to play with, He created us to have a relationship with us.