The ability of agents to make choices free from certain kinds of constraints
Questions tagged [free-will]
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What does giving up free will and giving it to Jesus mean?
Is there a majority opinion as to what giving up free will and giving it to Jesus means? What does this action look like? Are there any real life examples?
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Why does God punish people?
Suppose one was to believe God exists and God gave us free will, and that God punishes those people who sin.
If God gives us free will, why punish those that exercise their free will in a certain way? If God has given us free will, why does God…
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Why does God punish us when He gives us free-will?
God gives us free-will. But why does God punish us for exercising our free-will in certain ways (disobeying Him, sinning)? Why even both to give us free will, if we are to be punished for exercising our free will in a certain way.
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Do we really have free-will?
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If God controls our decisions, does this mean we don't have free will?
The bible says that God is omniscient, he knows about you even before you were born, he knew that Adam would sin. That made me think about the question, Do…
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If God created us with the capacity of free will. I choose to leave this life and be up there and watch the world beside him, why is it not happening?
If God created us with the capacity to love and thereby giving us the ability of free will, the ability too choose. He has given us the choise to be a decent human beings but also the choise to commit sin, which he does not like and that is…
