I am not asking "why do bad things happen to good people" I am asking about free will?

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any answer about "why do bad things happen to good people" will be reported to yahoo answers as a rant and not an answer.

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if someone is harmed against their will, why does god (yahweh, jehovah, allah) care more about the free will of the perpetrator, and less about the free will of the victim being harmed?

this is a question about free will, not about "why do bad things happen to good people"
only answers relating to free will are valid

Answer 1

any "all powerful god" who would who would sit by and watch children raped and murdered against their will, in the name of "free will" of the criminal, would have to be one sick SOB.

that leaves only two possibilities, that no such god exists, or if he does exist, he is a deranged psychopath. in either case, worshiping such a thing would be out of the question for any moral, decent person.

Answer 2

Free will is an illusion.

The truth is everything physical is balanced, and we have absolutely no control over life.

It is easy to check for yourself: did you chose to be born in this body? Do you control your breathing/heart beating etc. while you sleep?

If there is free will, why people get sick and die?

It is so obvious that free will is BS...

Remember: just because billions of people believe something is true, it doesn't make it the truth.

Be wary. Be skeptical. Question all of your existing beliefs. Don't believe what we say on this site. Don’t believe anything or anyone until you check what is said for yourself.



You have the ability to think critically and reason. USE IT.



Read "The Present" at www.truthcontest.com (or the version with religion if you are into religion) and you will know exactly what I mean.

Answer 3

If you are referring to the creator of the universe, His name is Yahweh in Hebrew and Jehovah in

English. Allah is the Arabic word for God. It is not His name.



Jehovah spent 1600 years having the bible written, so we could know all that we need to know. If you want to use your free will and refuse to read it, then you cannot complain that you have questions.



If you would like your questions answered, then please contact Jehovah's witnesses. They are the only ones who have been entrusted with the truth and therefore, the only ones who can answer your questions correctly and satisfactorily. The reason for that is, because they are the only ones who are keeping all of God's commandments and living as He asked us to live. Or you can use your free will and remain ignorant.



I will give you a freebie - Bad things do not just happen to good people. The bible says there are no good people and that the rain falls on the just and the unjust. Chance and circumstance happen to all men.

Answer 4

Your concept of "free will" is only your sick wicked delusion, and you are evil for even considering such a thing!

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God made you and everything you use, and, as that is not enough, He supplies the Power called Life into your spirit, every moment of the day, without which you would be a few dollars worth of soggy chemicals.

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He demands your absolute allegiance, your absolute gratitude, and your absolute responsibility for how you develop the one resource that He gave you, that is all your own, namely, your mind.

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One thing He demands above all else, the which, if you fail, ALL bets are off, and ANYTHING can happen to you, and HE DOES NOT CARE.

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You and He must agree on the facts of your memory.

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. AMOS 3:3.

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That's "it."

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That is the ONLY thing God has EVER wanted from us. He has NEVER demanded ANYTHING MORE than that from ANYBODY.

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If you can do THIS ONE THING with Him, you can have ANYTHING you WANT, that He's got. You can have HIM. On better than a stick!

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. JOHN 14:15-27.

. JOHN 15:1-16.

. JOHN 16:12-15.

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When you undergo the Ultimate Proof of Human Stupidity called Death, you will be impersonally scanned by an Agent of God, who is, in effect, God, who is in effect, Ascended Jesus- because you will have implemented AGREEMENT WITH GOD:

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. EZEKIEL 18:4.

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4. "Behold, all Souls are Mine; as the Soul of the father,

so also the Soul of the son is Mine:

the Soul that sinneth, it shall die."

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So then, The Angel/Messenger/Extension/Manifestation of God will SCAN (since we now understand to this level, we can use these terms,) YOU SOUL, to gain an ACCOUNT of HOW WE USED GOD'S LIFE FORCE.

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. MATTHEW 18:23-27.

. LUKE 12:35-48.

. LUKE 16:1-2.

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At this point, NOBODY CARES whether you ran a Soup Kitchen in Calcutta, or you were a Banana Republic Dictator, that ate Babies for dinner.

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What God wants to know is:

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"DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST LIFETIME?"

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At this point, you must project the reeled account of your entire life, to be picked up by the Angel of God, the which if you do. The Angel leaves you to your afterLife Destiny. At this point, your Soul's autonomous Backup default Energy Body has not yet deployed. Only if the Angel is satisfied with your account, will He leave.

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Most people cannot render the full account, and that is IT, for them:

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The Angel aggressively probes inside the Souls of the bozos who cannot recall their entire life, photographically.

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The energies of this probing, rip the Soul apart, completely destroying its AfterLife capability.

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Totally destroying that person.

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THEN the Angel of God leaves.

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The remnants of the destroyed Soul are set upon by scavenger creatures, who feed upon the remnants.

They harvest the memories and transfer them to the newborns, in order to steal their Divine Operating System Imprint, thus crippling them.

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. JOB 28:28.

. JOHN 1:1-5,9.

. MATTHEW 13:19.

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This is why, anyone who undergoes "Mind Control," "Awareness Training," and such stuff- they pick up crazy things which are accounted for as a "Past Life," because these techniques were developed by fools who never developed the capability to *see* these scavengers, and so presumed that someone could carry over memories from lifetime after lifetime, which would be useless all one's lifetime.

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Native Americans knew all about this Spiritual Fact, having access to Drugs which enabled verification of Spiritual Enhancement techniques.

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They had the only other full-spectrum ESP on the Planet. Therefore they developed a Spiritual System as good as The Bible, if not better.

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When the Roman Catholic Church discovered this, they hunted those who had this knowledge to extermination, before the laymen learned what they knew.

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The verifiable proof that Roman Catholics had invariably met a fate that was FAR WORSE THAN HELL would have TOTALLED Christianity around the World.

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Anyone who had any doubts, could sit by any dying person, imbibe a Drug Cocktail, and *see* exactly what happens when people die.

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The Native American Mystics who re-discovered this fact in modern times, learned that a person could incrementally recover their Life's Memories while they were quite healthy, such that they could run through their entire life history in about 20 minutes.

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They were able to observe (their best seers might use their drugs only once in their lifetime, and then recreate the experience by willpower,) that those who could do this were NOT torn in sunder, but Ascended to Higher Realms. The angel did not destroy them, and the scavengers did not devour them.

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In extreme cases, such as the person this was learned from, they do not even die, but will their bodies to transform to spirit energy, and proceed to Higher Realms, appropria

Answer 5

I don't think God of any name cares much about human free will, or what we do with it to be honest. Although Jesus did say to get into heaven you should be good. But it is still totally up to us. If we did not all have free will to choose to be good or bad, then there wouldn't be much point to being human at all, really.

If a person forces harm upon another, he also gets certain consequences forced upon him in turn. It's not like God supports people who choose to do harm.

Answer 6

There seems to be an argument pro and con on the idea of free will.

In general I think that we do have 'free will'.

There are obvious genetic controls and culture plays a part.

You must remember that physical screw-ups are either caused intentionally by a god, or by a demonic force or just one of the mis-steps of the evolutionary process.

Not all evolution is positive you know.

Consider insanity of various sorts - to me this is just an evolutionary trial that went bad. ;-)

Answer 7

Your perception might be a little misguieded there. Let me explain:



God does care, and at least in bible it says God is looking very closely

and writting it down himself who persecute God's people.



They do pay for what they did, just not here, in hell.



It's not because God care for free will, because it breaks the balance of the

whole world if God interferes straigh up front.



It will be forced love if you will. People will pretend to love God because they fear

God's power. That's like abusive husband and that's not true love.



What happens if we don't have gravity ? it all falls apart, because everything is built upon

that. Everything is in motion already, God put so much investment into running this

he can't stop and will not stop untill his plan works to the fullest.

Answer 8

Who say's he does not care about the victims? God knows everything and he will hold accountable anyone who harm to another person. Psalms 37:9-11

Answer 9

Beliefs are self-fulfilling prophecies. We can choose what we believe using free will.



As all beliefs have their consequences, some consequences are better or worse than others. There are no unwilling adult victims because if they are adults, they CHOSE to retain or change their beliefs and accepted the consequences thereof.

Answer 10

The "victim" has a free will to protect themselves.



Or is that not possible in your little world?

Answer 11

Free will : That thing that God gave us so that we could do what we want and then he could punish us for not doing what we were told.

Answer 12

Free will pertains to committing acts, not to the necessary consequences of acts committed. In other words; I am free to steal your stuff, but you are not free from having them be stolen, of course, the stealing of your stuff can be argued "immoral", but only if morality is tangible and objective... if morality is subjective or relative, then it can not be argued that I "ought not" steal your stuff.