#Ockham predestination free

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#Ockham predestination free

So, please feel free to be more specific and to send me a follow-up question. I have dealt with your question fairly broadly, but that is in part because I do not have much context to understand what the “real” issues which underlie your question. That is how I view things and it also just so happens to be consistent with the biblical view of such things. In fact you willfully decided to ask me this question. Those who rape and those who abuse children are deciding to do so, and therefore we have a right to condemn such actions and to exercise justice for these things. Otherwise, I cannot make sense of virtually anything I know and experience. “I” have a body, and “I” decide what I will do with my body, with my mind, and so forth. You can decide for yourself (but of course you are deciding, which means that you do make willful decisions) what you believe, but I believe that “I” exist. In fact, I choose (emphasis on choose) to reject this view J. To say the least, I completely reject this fully materialist/determinist view. Under this view, self is not real, consciousness and self-awareness are mere epiphenomena, morality, justice and ethics are totally meaningless words. Or to put it another way, do we even have a will? Even more basically, do “we” exist, or are we merely a complex biological machine which does what it does for purely deterministic reasons, because certain chemicals are released in certain parts of the brain, and certain neurons are connected in certain ways, so that our thought that “we” exist, or that we even actually make decisions is nonsense. So, the question is whether or not, in the broadest sense of the question, human beings can make willful decisions. Fine, but this is not particularly helpful to you, and I want to acknowledge this. I will not go into details here, but any reasonable reading of the Bible, with God commanding us to make certain decisions (such as John 3:16) precludes this false understanding of Christianity and of the Bible. True, but I completely deny this utterly false interpretation of the Bible. Calvinists deny real free will to human beings. By the way, I am aware that some who call themselves Christians believe in a hard sort of predestination in which God chooses who is saved. Of course, even for me, it does not simply cancel out the philosophical question which you raise, but it provides an answer outside of philosophy. (I could use dozens of other biblical examples) That answers the question for me. Otherwise Deuteronomy 30:19-20 would be a cruel joke. God asks us because he made us and he knows that we can choose. To me it is “obvious” that human beings make willful decisions, because God asks his people, for example in Deuteronomy 30:19-20 to decide and to choose what they will do. This makes the answer to your question easy for me, personally. For myself, I live within a Christian worldview. That might explain why you have been struggling with this for a while. I have spent lot of time trying to figure out what I believe about this, but this has been a huge roadblock for me with believing in God, or in believing that Jesus can save me. If I cannot make willful decisions, however, it certainly seems like Christianity and salvation cannot be true. It is becoming a more and more accepted theory that humans have no ability to truly make “willful decisions.” Under this assumption, how can one come to salvation? Wouldn’t this render John 3:16 useless, because we cannot choose to believe in God? I understand the argument that this just points to predestination, but as someone who has never been a believer, that certainly turns me off from it.