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      o_mlly replied to the thread Free will and determinism.
      What role does the moral agent play in choosing a moral act? The determinist says none; the Christian says in sin the moral agent is...
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      o_mlly replied to the thread Free will and determinism.
      Nope. After reflection, all externalities are either internalized or rejected. I am always an integrated person and so are you unless...
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      o_mlly replied to the thread Free will and determinism.
      No argument that our physical makeup can influence our dispositions. But those particulars do not determine our acts. We can and often...
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      o_mlly replied to the thread Free will and determinism.
      Did you read the study? N is only 62. A statistically small sample size. You quoted from the study's intro and its aims; I quoted...
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      o_mlly replied to the thread Free will and determinism.
      ? Self-contradiction in the above. Either one's decision are determined passively, or one actively determines their own decisions...
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      o_mlly replied to the thread Free will and determinism.
      Human nature does not change any more than the natural laws of physics change. Our affections and attitudes may change but our nature...
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      o_mlly replied to the thread Mary was a good person and had a sinful nature like all of us..
      This passage certainly means or at least strongly suggests that Jesus had no siblings and Mary no other children. John 19: 26When Jesus...
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      o_mlly replied to the thread Free will and determinism.
      Well, unfortunately, there is only one of me. We are rational beings ... we always have reasons for our moral choices. But that's not...
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      o_mlly replied to the thread Free will and determinism.
      Well, there is no free will in that. But that is not how human beings choose. Interesting that you write, "... in the nature of the...
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      o_mlly replied to the thread Free will and determinism.
      All goodness comes from God. In the moment of choice involving a moral act, God provides the actual grace to choose the good...
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      o_mlly replied to the thread Free will and determinism.
      And ... ? It seems your definition of inherited conditions equates to all of those things that happen to us. We seldom if ever have a...
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      o_mlly replied to the thread Free will and determinism.
      The only instinctive impulse we have by nature is that inherited selfish gene. What do we inherit and what do we acquire that give us...
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      o_mlly replied to the thread Free will and determinism.
      I disagree. Ironically, the thread demonstrates that each of us freely decide whether we have free will or not. What we "inherit" is...
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      o_mlly replied to the thread Is Western Liberal Democracy inherently anti-Christ or Satanic?.
      Under liberal democracy, one gets the lowest (uncommon) denominator as its moral values underpinning its legal system. Much of what...
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      o_mlly replied to the thread Free will and determinism.
      It's been quite a while since I read Teilhard. I recall that he attempted to use secondary causes to permit a theistic evolution...
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