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Thinkingfox
post Aug 3 2009, 02:09 PM

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Free will or determinism in which aspect of my life?

Whether or not I can speak? Whether or not I can drink water? Whether or not I can think in a certain manner? Whether or not I can believe in a certain philosophical or religious teaching? Or all of them?
Thinkingfox
post Aug 4 2009, 04:41 PM

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If you're talking about the religious aspect of free-will versus determinism...

Some say what we do has already been destined by God. Therefore, if what we do has been destined by God, then God cannot blame us for our sins because He is the one who has decided our actions, including sinning.

Some other people say that God gave us a free will, whereby we will have to follow what God wants us to do through the words of a prophet and/or a holy book and that we will be judged according to how we live our lives in the end times. Some say that a problem with that idea is that if it is true, then we should not be judged by people because God will judge us and since nobody is perfect, people should not judge us.

The debate for this is still on-going.

 

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