(July 28, 2013 at 2:37 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Of course you have, though perhaps not by that specific term. If God created the Universe - and the overwhelming majority of theists will claim that he did - then God created everthing, including human choices and actions.
Not quite. If I built a robot that goes on to build another robot, then I am not the creator of the second robot. Or, in simple terms, if I write a program to solve mathematical equations and it solves a particular equation, then I am not the one who solves it.
(July 28, 2013 at 2:37 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I use the term to mean a being capable of actions not constrained.
Unconstrained by what, exactly?
(July 28, 2013 at 2:37 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: If God created human actions, then we would have no choice but to act in pre-determined ways.
And it remains debatable if god did create human actions.
(July 28, 2013 at 2:37 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: To look at it from the other side, if human beings are able to take actions NOT created by God, then theists need to admit (but they never do) that there are things in the Universe which God did not create.
AFAIK, they do admit it. As matter of fact, that is the basis of their whole theology.
