RE: I literally cannot avoid sinning; so, why...
July 20, 2023 at 10:23 pm
(This post was last modified: July 20, 2023 at 10:25 pm by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
@Ten
It’s actually the same question twice.
In a theistic context, I think that sin can be practically defined as ‘doing something God does not want you to do’. There’s a passage in 2 Thessalonians in which God actively prevents people from believing ‘the truth’ so that he can condemn them. This would seem to make the contention that people choose to sin problematic at best. If God can fiddle with your beliefs to this extent, it make the whole free will concept moot
I agree that God could just as easily created only people who, through their own free will, would choose to never sin. Why he didn’t is never adequately answered.
Boru
Quote:Both very well put and framed questions. Like, can we conclude that as described, god has free will to choose to sin or not? We've been batting this shuttlecock around enough, it feels trite to go through the process of properly defining the parameters of sin(besides, I'm pretty sure it got an exhaustive take somewhere in my companion thread to this one). But I feel like we could at least say he is capable of it, and could create beings capable of such free will as well. Like, the ability to genuinely choose and not do the thing.
It’s actually the same question twice.
In a theistic context, I think that sin can be practically defined as ‘doing something God does not want you to do’. There’s a passage in 2 Thessalonians in which God actively prevents people from believing ‘the truth’ so that he can condemn them. This would seem to make the contention that people choose to sin problematic at best. If God can fiddle with your beliefs to this extent, it make the whole free will concept moot
I agree that God could just as easily created only people who, through their own free will, would choose to never sin. Why he didn’t is never adequately answered.
Boru
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