RE: Do you wish God was real?
June 25, 2015 at 4:16 pm
(This post was last modified: June 25, 2015 at 4:17 pm by robvalue.)
Free will fails because of heaven, but it fails hard in other ways. Clearly we are not just free to do whatever, there are limitations. And other people can infringe on those limitations. If a guy grabs a child and rapes it, what happens to the free will of the child? It's effectively cut off. It can't get away or fight the guy off. So the child has lost any meaningful free will. It can shout and try and get loose, but it's not going to matter.
So the alternatives are: God sits by and does nothing while the child has its free will violated and gets raped while respecting the free will of the rapist, or god steps in and stops the rape happening at all, temporarily removing the free will of the rapist for just as long as need be each time. Which is the better option, and which causes less effect on free will overall?
That's not getting into why God would design humans so that there would ever be anyone wanting to rape a child in the first place. I often disappear into a world of my own imagination where I have free will to do wonderful happy things of my choosing, but no one ever gets hurt. No one even thinks about hurting anyone else, it's just not done. So I guess my imagination, given to me by God, is more powerful than God! What a conundrum.
So the alternatives are: God sits by and does nothing while the child has its free will violated and gets raped while respecting the free will of the rapist, or god steps in and stops the rape happening at all, temporarily removing the free will of the rapist for just as long as need be each time. Which is the better option, and which causes less effect on free will overall?
That's not getting into why God would design humans so that there would ever be anyone wanting to rape a child in the first place. I often disappear into a world of my own imagination where I have free will to do wonderful happy things of my choosing, but no one ever gets hurt. No one even thinks about hurting anyone else, it's just not done. So I guess my imagination, given to me by God, is more powerful than God! What a conundrum.
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