(July 7, 2015 at 7:00 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote: Dritch is in the unenviable position of understanding that freewill cannot exist in the presence of an all-knowing, omnipotent god, but having to believe that humans are responsible for their sin and deserve to go to hell for it.
No human brain can house such contradictory beliefs without going batty.
History has shown us that we do have limited freewill. Our actions are based on emotions, not logic. We have drives and urges and the limitations of our physical bodies. Still, we aren't all instinct. There is a part of us that can stand back and decide whether to follow our drives and urges. Once we learn that we can do this, our actions will be based more and logic and we will have more freewill than those who just do what comes naturally. This is easier said than done, but, to varying degrees, we do have some control and are not slaves to anything we don't wish to be.
Lol, I guess you've never been forced acknoweledge an addiction before?
Nor have you ever gone off the grid.
If you had you know that every aspect of your current lifestyle binds you to a very narrow way of living. That's not to say you don't like living addicted to something nor does it mean you may want or give up your current life style. That's not makes you a slave. What makes you a slave is that you can with out loosing all that you are now.
A truly free man is not bound by consenquence, nor fear of loosing what he cherishes.
