Question:
imagine if God didnt give you free-will to make choice in life....?
Kevin
2010-12-20 12:05:07 UTC
imagine if God didnt give you free-will to make choice in life and instead God controlled you to do good things and not learn from bad things, how would the world be. Would you like to live in a controlled life
Sixteen answers:
ladyren
2010-12-20 12:09:43 UTC
I couldn't even get to first base with your question.... because



I'd need some proof that god even existed.



1) Supernatural explanations are ALWAYS replaced by natural explanations:

All of these things were once attributed to god(s) or spirits:

floods,

hurricanes,

the existence and movement of the Sun, Moon and stars,

the tides,

earthquakes,

disease and health, success or

failure of crops,

rain or drought, tidal waves,

eclipses, why children die, why women die.



All of this now is explained by science…

But number of natural explanations replaced by supernatural explanations???? ZERO



2) Inconsistency of world religions:

If God is so important and ever-present in our lives, why can't anybody agree on anything about God? If God is not important or ever-present, why does God matter?



3) God keeps shrinking:

In the Old Testament, God parted seas and made worlds. Now God seems to only give comfort to a few individuals (you apparently aren’t one of them.



4) Nothing supernatural has EVER withstood testing:

When someone claiming paranormal powers or a paranormal event agrees to have it tested, they ALWAYS fail and almost always claim the test was unfair. If gods are supernatural, and if no claim of supernatural has EVER survived testing, why should I believe in gods?



5) Our understanding of God never improves:

2000 years ago we had a bunch of different religious factions, all bickering or warring over their different interpretations of their gods. That is exactly what we have today. Our understanding of God never improves because there's nothing to understand. But over the same time period, our understanding of the natural world has grown:

- from huddling around a wood fire to harnessing the power of the atom;

- from witch doctors to eradicating smallpox and polio;

- from astrology to the Hubble Telescope;

- from mud huts to skyscrapers;

- from camels to Airbus;

- etc...



6) Complete lack of evidence

If a powerful god wishes our worship, he/she/it need only part a sea, write in the sky or do SOMETHING sufficiently grand and inexplicable, and all religions would unite, all bickering would cease, and all atheists would pray. If a giant voice boomed across the Earth and said "You must protect the planet, the entire planet would unite in common purpose. But I don't see this happening.



Do you?



And if there are mistakes in this logic, help me out?
?
2010-12-20 12:11:45 UTC
"Would you like to live in a controlled life"

IF 'god' existed the only 'choice' would be Grovel or Burn...

LuLz



W C Easttom: God says, do what you wish, but make the wrong choice and you will

be tortured for eternity in hell.

That sir, is not free will.

It would be akin to a man telling his girlfriend, do what you wish, but if you choose to

leave me, I will track you down and blow your brains out.

When a man says this we call him a psychopath and cry out for his gaoling or death.

When god says the same we call him 'loving' and build churches in his honour.

~
?
2010-12-20 12:07:42 UTC
I do anyway; I'm physical and there are physical laws of cause and effect. To think we're magical or special is just ignorant and arrogant. People determined to do good would easily be better than the way we're determined now. Besides, how would you know if you had free will or not? As we can see, it's very clear that people can be convinced they have it when they don't. What would be the disadvantage?
?
2016-12-13 20:20:23 UTC
evaluate this: Scientists agree that the tremendous Bang occurred style of 14 billion years in the past. in addition they concur that this develop into the starting up of time interior the universe. Time, as all of us comprehend it, is something that only exists only interior the universe, no longer outside it. So even if is outside the universe isn't constrained via time, yet transcends it. it really is an absolute. This matches the common description of God no longer having a starting up or end, because starting up and end recommend existence interior of time, which God isn't believed to be constrained via. also, the sheer undeniable truth that the universe has a starting up is powerful evidence of a God. In Stephen Hawkins e book, "a short heritage of Time", he states that once the tremendous Bang theory develop into first presented, it develop into easily the atheists who were warring parties of this theory, because it lent itself so strongly to a created starting up. the theory that each thing in basic terms continually existed in nice condition better efficient with their theory that a God wasn't needed to describe the existence of the universe. this is totally unusual that those perspectives were switched. also, look on the regulations of the universe. Gravity, math, physics, and so on. those regulations are all very certain, very strict, and very defined. there is not any way that they'd have come from thoroughly unguided origins. also, Stephen Hawkins mentions in his e book that had the preliminary improve of the universe after the tremendous bang been a tiny little bit speedier, each thing might want to have higher too quick for planets, existence, and so on existence to ever variety. also, had it been a fragment of a fragment slower, the universe might want to have collapsed lower back into itself earlier existence might want to have had a chance to variety. the tremendous bang develop into in basic terms desirable. looks somewhat too coincidental to me. besides, i imagine those information, between others that you'll obtain, instruct very life like evidence that the universe develop right into a creation of an smart being. Who this smart being is, you may want to obtain for your self.
?
2010-12-20 12:08:14 UTC
Imagine if Zeus didn't give you free-will to make choices in life....



Sounds ridiculous, doesn't it? Now you know how we feel about YOUR question.
2010-12-20 12:08:07 UTC
What you don't know won't hurt you, and it'd be a lot better than it is now with people killing each other and abusing kids, elders.. unless your a sadistic prick like God and like those things to happen. Plus, if he punishes you for using your free will doing something he doesn't like then I fail to see how you even have it?
ungodly
2010-12-20 12:09:45 UTC
That's easy, because there is no god. YOU live in a 'controlled life'.
No Appollo Jeez
2010-12-20 12:07:52 UTC
I don't think there would be a point to life if there were no free will. We would be like robots.

I would not want any one to control my life.
Ruth Ann
2010-12-20 12:06:45 UTC
I don't think I would like it much but then again, I guess I wouldn't know since I would have not idea what free will was.
....
2010-12-20 12:06:44 UTC
Guess God couldn't have much of a relationship with puppets?
Witness4JC
2010-12-20 12:08:34 UTC
You are either a slave to sin or a slave to God. I use to be a slave to sin now i am a slave of God. Why serve yourself if you can serve the one who created you?



Christ is Worth Trading Everything For - Tim Conway

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tppPAAUR1tE&feature=related
Mario
2010-12-20 12:08:23 UTC
I don't think we would have had that choice to think about the question. We wouldn't have been programmed to.



Thank the Lord though that we do have choice.
2010-12-20 12:13:23 UTC
we'd be pets. how the world was wouldn't make any difference.
2 Shepherds
2010-12-20 12:06:37 UTC
God didn't create robots.
BILL@CA
2010-12-20 12:06:15 UTC
It's call animals. No intelligence.
2010-12-20 12:06:29 UTC
no thanks..


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