RE: A thing about religious (and other) people and the illusion of free will
November 12, 2023 at 2:28 pm
(This post was last modified: November 12, 2023 at 2:29 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(November 12, 2023 at 2:09 pm)snowtracks Wrote: God much rather have spiritual beings with free will with evil, than beings with no free will and no evil.
His presence is sufficiently revealed so people will know he’s there but sufficiently hidden so that those who wish to ignore him can do so. This way, their choice of destiny* is really a free-will decision. Everyone is currently deciding their choice.
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*Either eternal connection with God, or eternal separation.
All well and good, the morality-making property in your view is explicitly the possession of free will. I guess that really does mean that your entire moral system is bunk if we don't possess it. A self inflicted wound. I would have expected christians to learn their lesson about tying anchors to their beliefs over these many centuries - but here we are.
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