RE: [Quranic Reflection]: The tranquillity men find in women and women find in men
October 20, 2020 at 4:23 pm
(October 20, 2020 at 4:15 pm)WinterHold Wrote:(October 18, 2020 at 11:39 am)Angrboda Wrote: This sounds an awful lot like according to Islam our free will and choice is severely compromised.
Actually no, in a nutshell:
-God created everything, including the ability to choose
-He gave humans the ability to choose freely.
So, humans do make their own minds. But if God didn't give them that kind of freedom; there won't be a choice to make in the first place.
It isn’t logically coherent for God to have created ‘everything’ while still allowing free will. Subsumed into the category ‘everything’ are the choices we make and the outcomes of those choices.
It would be better for your position to state, ‘God did not create everything, which is why we have the ability to choose freely’. I’d don’t agree with that argument (I’m a determinist), but it would make more sense for you.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
