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Why does God allow suffering? Bear in mind, those that don't need a perfect distraction, suffer less
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<blockquote data-quote="partinobodycular" data-source="post: 76873731" data-attributes="member: 435281"><p>This would seem to be a rather simplistic interpretation of free will, because it ignores the fact that outside agents are actually the source of every free will choice that you have. When the robber asks you '<em>your money or your life</em>' he's given you a choice that you didn't have before. In fact every single choice that you make is a choice that's been forced upon you by an outside source. Thus oddly enough free will is the product of the constraints that have been placed upon us, and a rather odd way of delineating our freedom.</p><p></p><p>This illustrates the difference between man's free will and God's free will. God's free will supposedly isn't the product of constraints that have been placed upon Him by an outside source, ours are.</p><p></p><p>But this leads to a question, is God's free will truly without constraints? For example, can God make a square circle? What else can't God do? Just how severely does the Law of Non-contradiction limit what God can and cannot do? In the end is God's free will just as constrained as our free will? And thus the only true free will choices to be made, if any, are ours?</p><p></p><p>Lotta questions.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="partinobodycular, post: 76873731, member: 435281"] This would seem to be a rather simplistic interpretation of free will, because it ignores the fact that outside agents are actually the source of every free will choice that you have. When the robber asks you '[I]your money or your life[/I]' he's given you a choice that you didn't have before. In fact every single choice that you make is a choice that's been forced upon you by an outside source. Thus oddly enough free will is the product of the constraints that have been placed upon us, and a rather odd way of delineating our freedom. This illustrates the difference between man's free will and God's free will. God's free will supposedly isn't the product of constraints that have been placed upon Him by an outside source, ours are. But this leads to a question, is God's free will truly without constraints? For example, can God make a square circle? What else can't God do? Just how severely does the Law of Non-contradiction limit what God can and cannot do? In the end is God's free will just as constrained as our free will? And thus the only true free will choices to be made, if any, are ours? Lotta questions. [/QUOTE]
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