A conversation with my friend got me thinking about my faith in God, he proposed that all and everything that exist is predetermined, at the moment he’s a fatalist. while I disagree with his point of view, I on the other hand profess to have a limited amount of freewill against the unforgiving laws of nature. He says, Even though if we were to test our sense of freewill, jumping through a window to land on your front lawn to begin eating grass and dirt wouldn’t help prove your freewill, because how would we really know that was already going to happen, so essentially there really is no way of proving anything, and I somewhat agree.
But I retort
Lets just assume for the moment that all and everything is determined, bringing God into the equation makes things much more complicated because, if he determines everything, then what’s the point of morality, the point of responsibility, of denying the self, Salvation and grace etc. all your hopes and dreams is a mere delusion, your just as hopeless as a test dummy on a crash course. There was really no sense of choice, the ability to choose God, or rebel against him. A 10 year old girl raped and killed wasn’t bad timing or chance, but organized by the mind of God, every touch and every kiss, and penetration, her cries and tears, her bruses and cuts, all written and directed by God, even the pleasure the man gets from it, and that saddens me if this is true.
If God requires men to repent, then obviously there is a sense of responsibility and choice, he requires us all to come to the realization we are sinners and have rebeled against Him, to rekindle their will to his. I get the feeling God has an inability to change the human species without them first admitting into existence their own despairity, like saying goes, “you can’t help someone who can’t help themselves” and I believe that even applies to the will of God. So, if the human species have a real responsibility and choice, then it makes perfect sense why God has time after time, asked men to surrender themselves to a even more perfect will, which leads me to my next point that I have been considering about latetly that is pivotal to this post.
Above I said, we have rebeled against God and he wants us to rekindle our will to his, perhaps maybe we possess freewill and if we choose too, we can become like animals and forget there ever was a God, or feel the weight of morality guilt your consciousness and evolve forward in understanding a more complex side of the will. Lets move forward a little, lets assume, every choice you have made up until this point was all very real, God has given us free will, yet at the same time, he requires men to repent and rekindle our will to his, so what exactly is he offering? maybe the perfect will, but we lose our will at a cost if we pursue the will of God. Yet while the world continues in their parades, they all have a freewill, that is “free” from God, but a will nonetheless, but the moment we surrender to God, we lose our freewill and have adopted the will of God.
Something I have been thinking about, sorry about my layman theories, work with me on this.
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