Sunday, January 23, 2011
Free Will
When we touched on the topic of free will in class the subject seemed very familiar. That's because it was something that has been questioned time and time before. Especially in my faith, Christianity. For as long as I can remember, I heard the story of how God created the world, Adam and Eve. How they disobeyed God and he allowed them to have free will. That is how I know was taught free will came about. Even though God gave us "free will" how can we say we are truly free? Since the beginning there has always been some set of rules. For example, the law, rules from our parents or even rules at school. Being the people we are, we set up these rules so that ciaos will not arise. But, does this mean that our free will is limited? This maybe so, because to some extent we can exercise our freedom. However, that will imply that we are not totally free.
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To answer your post, I would say that we do have complete free will to do anything within the laws that govern the universe. People can and do break religious rules and our governments law frequently. I believe that the only thing that could take away from free will would be pray. If there truly is a god who listens to and answers prays then humans would actually not have free will, or at least we would have free will until affected by someone's answered pray.
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