I just finished reading Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe by the brilliant theoretical physicist Brian Greene and he agrees with you. He makes a strong argument that we have no free will at all...everything is coded in us and we act accordingly.No.....
Free Will is an illusion. We are programmed to believe in free will as it brings hope but it is all part of the illusion. We are DNA codes that are pre-programmed.
"All this pain is an illusion"
In the illusion of time, we are all projections of consciousness experiencing in the physical.
You didn’t pay attention. Catholicism teaches that God gives freedom of choice and eventually judges us on the choices made. Catholicism is not one of the Christian denominations that believe in predestination.If God knows what we are going to do, then do we really have freedom of choice?
Sorry reverting back to my Catholic school days here. The Nuns never could convince me on this one. My position was, if God already knows then you really don't have Freedom of Choice. ?
Haha, you've been taught well my son!. But the nuns would also tell us that God already knew what "choice" we would make. So the circle continues, if he knows our "choice" then is it really a "choice" or predestiny? By the way I did pay attention but they still couldn't provide a strong answer to my follow up question. How can you not believe in predestination if you believe God already knows your decision?You didn’t pay attention. Catholicism teaches that God gives freedom of choice and eventually judges us on the choices made. Catholicism is not one of the Christian denominations that believe in predestination.
Hmmmm. Sounds like your nuns needed a little refresher on the teachings.Haha, you've been taught well my son!. But the nuns would also tell us that God already knew what "choice" we would make. So the circle continues, if he knows our "choice" then is it really a "choice" or predestiny? By the way I did pay attention but they still couldn't provide a strong answer to my follow up question. How can you not believe in predestination if you believe God already knows your decision?
Not sure what you mean by that. They were Sisters of Notre Dame.Hmmmm. Sounds like your nuns needed a little refresher on the teachings.
Makes one wonder.........Haha, you've been taught well my son!. But the nuns would also tell us that God already knew what "choice" we would make. So the circle continues, if he knows our "choice" then is it really a "choice" or predestiny? By the way I did pay attention but they still couldn't provide a strong answer to my follow up question. How can you not believe in predestination if you believe God already knows your decision?
Agreed. To put it another way, foreknowledge is not foreordination.This has been debated for centuries.
Free will and an all-knowing God that creates everything (including a perfect plan) are not compatible.
I just finished reading Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe by the brilliant theoretical physicist Brian Greene and he agrees with you. He makes a strong argument that we have no free will at all...everything is coded in us and we act accordingly.
I'm not sure I fully understand the argument, but whether he's right or wrong, free will cannot exist with an all-knowing, all-everything God.
My brain isn't wired to comprehend such mind-frazzling information.Here is another one for you.... Everything happens past, present, future simultaneously....
Makes one wonder.........
George Costanza, who was not Catholic I do not believe, had a phase where he did the opposite he always was doing.
Would God know any said person who would start using that philosophy?
I would think......
yes?
You were created a free moral agent that allows you to control your own destiny so if you choose to drive your car off a cliff he will not stop you. IMHO!If God knows what we are going to do, then do we really have freedom of choice?
Sorry reverting back to my Catholic school days here. The Nuns never could convince me on this one. My position was, if God already knows then you really don't have Freedom of Choice. ?
Do you agree He knows ahead of time that you are going to drive off that cliff?!?!You were created a free moral agent that allows you to control your own destiny so if you choose to drive your car off a cliff he will not stop you. IMHO!
Do you agree He knows ahead of time that you are going to drive off that cliff?!?!
God's foreknowledge of events in no way restricts your free will. Him knowing what you will choose does not prevent you from choosing.
Does this mean there is, in fact, only one moment and, therefore, there is no path - except for that one moment? (Think the math set {1}.disagree..... In any moment of time everything has already happened so therefore one must follow the path. We can only think in linear terms and are incapable of seeing outside the lines of reason. In reality all of our behavioral decisions are just a reflection of our genetic history. To us it seems like we are in control and have this freewill but really it is the fact that consciousness is simply a state of awareness and we are just going along for the ride. Enjoy the trip......
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Does this mean there is, in fact, only one moment and, therefore, there is no path - except for that one moment? (Think the math set {1}.
Now, if there are micro-moments I can see that. But then again, wouldn't everything that has already happened would have happened in a single micro-moment? Sounds big-bangish to me.