This has been an ongoing subject for years. I have never come to undesrtand why free will is such a hard concept to understand. I mean, the very ability of choice, reasoning, and to make a decision is in of itself free will. The ability to debate, and even take a stance on a certian matter is a choice. We must purposefully decide to take
any action. Wether we smoke, drink, party, or live on the total oppisite of the gammbit,
we decide who we are. By social patterning, learned behavioral traits, and habits we form our own being. We create our own phyches by our system of belifes, and moral conduct. We learn to be us. No matter what life may present us, it is our own idividual response, thoughts and prossesing of these events that determin our own individuality. Not one human being is a robot that
must do anything. There is always a choice, and a consecuence. Good or bad. There is always a choice and a result. We are a unique taxom with inate abilities, and boundless posibilities. The human mind is a marvel..... every one of has one, and yet it's capabilities can not hope to as of yet be grasped. Its total crap for anyone to say we do not control our own destinies. Crap, crap, crap. Dont belive it? No hand of God is ever going to come down and stop you from making any certian decision. Even against all the survival systems evolved into man, you can still decide to take your own life. Or that of another. or give life. Love, forgivness......
YOUR CHOICE.
So lets go back to Pete. Pete's cool, I like Pete. So he has the ability to chose A or B. So lets say he picks K, (just go wtih it..... A & B sucks!) So he picks K, and decides to run with it. So in a logical debate, where, and at what point dose he not have free will. Why can't he pick K? No matter what he decides to do.... Pete still made the choice. Now lets put God in this. All knowing, all present. Any of ya seen Source Code? Cool movie. Lets look at it like this...... God is the dude getting the bomb, we are the passengers on the train, totaly unaware of Gods knowledge of the situation, or even that there are different choices to different outcomes. But just like the dude on the train, God has bounced around and saw the different outcomes, becoming all knowing, and all present having been in more than one thread at a once, and by knowing the outcome of any particular thread by having been there. So by being all powerful, and all present God is able to already know any possible outcome, of any choice or decision Pete will make. Just like the coffee spilling on The dudes shoe. Or the phone call, ect, ect
Ok..... now its time to let out my inner geek. Reality is subjective, therefore there are as many realities as there are sentient beings. There is some talk in physics about parallel universes but it is just talk, speculation driven by ambiguities in the interpretation of mathematical models or by the intractability of the remaining physics problems. We still lack a model for the masses of particles and we lack a synthesis between general relativity and quantum mechanics. Creative model making in mathematical physics requires wild speculation about extra degrees of mathematical freedom and how they might be interpreted but it is a mistake when such talk is shared with the public because it has no credibility, however A team of astrophysicists based in Australia and England has uncovered evidence that the laws of physics are different in different parts of the universe. This is astounding, what if all options are posible? What if A, B, and K were all played out within there own plane....... pretty cool huh?
Now... Here's a choke point for alot of people. God
can do anything, but there are things he will
refuse to do. God will never at any point for any reason give homage to any other god, lie, partake of sin, entertain evil, tempt mankind to evil or sin, nor break an oath or his word. These things He has swore to by his own mouth. Hope this helps.............
