(August 4, 2016 at 3:55 pm)Nihilist Virus Wrote: Free will is an incoherent concept.
Do you know why I don't choose to eat a bowl of salt? Because I have no initial desire to do so. In fact, I have an aversion to it.
Did God consult me when creating me with these initial likes and dislikes? Certainly not. So my "free will" (presupposing that it exists) is still just an engine that operates on pre-existing conditions, making the result rigged.
We act in accordance with desired outcomes to the best of our ability as rational animals. Free will is the moronic invention of the apologist and it doesn't even appear in the Bible.
I actually agree with everything you said, except of the origins of free will. In that Free will was an adopted 'doctrine' of Greek philosophy, and it is never actually mentioned in the bible once. The bible identifies as slaves, not beings who have 'free will.'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_will
"The underlying questions are whether we have control over our actions, and if so, what sort of control, and to what extent. These questions predate the early Greek stoics (for example, Chrysippus), and some modern philosophers lament the lack of progress over all these millennia.[6][7]"
