RE: In your opinion what causes christians to believe in Jesus
May 17, 2025 at 1:02 pm
(This post was last modified: May 17, 2025 at 1:07 pm by Alan V.)
(May 17, 2025 at 6:49 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: It's been argued (reasonably, I think) that free will cannot exist in any framework that includes an omni-creative God, such as the Abrahamic one.
Essentially, the argument is that if God created the universe, he created every thing in it. If we include choices in the set of 'things', then God not only knows the choices we make, but he also created those choices as well as their outcomes. God not only knows that you're going to have eggs for brekkie, but he's also arranged things so that there is no possibility that you would have anything else.
I'm not convinced that this is a definitive argument, but it's not an unreasonable one.
Boru
I think truly chance occurrences are necessary in our universe not only for life to self-organize and evolve but for consciousness to emerge. What you said above may be something similar, as far as I can understand you.