RE: The free will argument demonstrates that christians don't understand free will.
April 30, 2014 at 10:51 am
(April 30, 2014 at 7:08 am)Kitanetos Wrote: I view free will as the consciousness to choose to either do something or not do it.
One can either have coffee in the morning or not have coffee in the morning. The choice to either drink coffee or not drink it is known as free will.
That is why free will is the bane of prophecy, because prophecy falsely claims to be a set event that cannot be changed. Free will indicates otherwise.
But do you really have a choice to drink that coffee? If you drink it you always were going to drink it. Up to that point, your whole life has led up to drinking that coffee. A chain reaction that none of us have any control over, that is so complex, we appear to have free will.
Thankfully so.
Just my viewpoint at the moment. :-)
I agree that free will is the bane of prophecy.
Also the direction of time. I can't see how the future can be foretold when it hasn't happened.
It seems unlikely that mass amounts of information could travel back in time and then be received by a human mind.
A god could do it of course, with magic. :-)
