Free will: Absolute or Not? Should all the blame be upon humanity?

**junn** · 03-03-2008, 09:03 PM

Ecclesiastes 3 :15
Whatever is has already been,
and what will be has been before;
and God will call the past to account.

my thought is that maybe if "what will be has already been," then maybe this would bring comfort to those who has a lot to regret in life. not that i'm condoning slack excuses for committing mistakes. rather, help a sorry being get on with life...

we are like water that follows the shape of its container...

we cannot not choose the kind of environment which we are born to, and by which we are molded.

**forester** · 03-03-2008, 09:46 PM

What is it? I don't know what a Freewill is.

**rcruman** · 03-03-2008, 09:55 PM

YEs, everyday and every second in our life.

Peace!

**tripwire** · 03-04-2008, 06:54 AM

I read this couple of days ago... sharing lang.

http://www.optimal.org/peter/freewill.htm

**cbrdigitalware** · 03-04-2008, 08:06 AM

of course, our GOD opposes martial law and we're not created robots....but he can override our freewill at any given situation...which sometimes to a man's point of view can be unfair but remember God is good and HE is all the time..

**brownprose** · 03-04-2008, 10:46 AM

Freewill is when you choose to read or make a post.

**forester** · 03-05-2008, 01:09 PM

Brown, I think your language is the indirect way of saying [Freewil is when you choose to read and make a post] that Freewill is just a piece of worthless and nonsense subject to define.
If "is" is "it is", then it is nothing but a part of every movement and man's capacity which is not worthy for dissertation. If freewill means a will that is free, then its way of defining it would just be a semantics interplay.
If our daily "choices" constitutes freewill, I think it is just naming something which is a necessity in human occurences, hence, there is no need of telling the whole world that the "is" is the "it is" or freewill is the freechoice. This is the funny part of thinking Brown, twisting and distorting were part of it.

**bcasabee** · 03-05-2008, 01:46 PM

I just want to share this article about free will.

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/freewill/

**NASYO** · 03-05-2008, 06:03 PM

as humans, we are entitled with it..

**brown_dog** · 03-05-2008, 06:12 PM

We don't have freewill because we have the constitution and the laws.
Why choose to obey the law? ask your law teacher.

Ecclesiastes 3 :15
Whatever is has already been,
and what will be has been before;
and God will call the past to account.

This simply means what you have done in the past whether good or evil will be taken into account. So we should be sober and careful not to do evil against other people and ourselves. When you do things bad or good there are gonna be consequences. (Physics and laws of nature, cause and effect, also applies to this principle)