(June 25, 2015 at 1:14 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(June 25, 2015 at 1:12 pm)Tonus Wrote: I agree, because it makes sense. Don't you think it's better, then, for god to have made that decision for us? Centuries of mankind thinking for itself have led us down a road of hardship, misery and suffering and possibly billions of lost souls. Had god made the decision for us, we would all be saved. Isn't that the better outcome for everyone? Given a choice of making my own decision and letting god (the greatest intellect in existence, a loving and generous being who wants what is best for me) do it instead, I'd let god take over every time. Doesn't it seem mean of him to leave such a momentous decision in our hands, knowing that a very large percentage of us will get it wrong?
But we wouldn't be US if we didn't have free will. We wouldn't be human beings. We would just be puppets without a mind of our own or control over our bodies or minds. I would not be me, and you would not be you.
As Robvalue pointed out, that opens up a can of worms regarding Heaven. There is supposed to be no sin there. That means the people who go to Heaven either:
1. Have their free will taken away so they can't sin and become robots,
or
2. God somehow makes it possible for them to retain free-will and still insure that they never sin. If he can do that, why not do it here?
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein