Wonderings 13

 FREE WILL

the power of acting without the constraint of necessity or fate; the ability to act at one's own discretion.

It is my belief that free will, however powerful and/or believed, is non-existent...

Let me start by asking these questions:

Did you have a say so in your own birth, that is to say, were you given a chance to choose your parents or your birth location?

Obviously, the answer is NO...

Do you think or believe that outside of suicide. you will have the free will to choose when you die and/or how you die?

Obviously, the answer is NO...

AND YET...

many of us believe that we have the free will to make decisions for all those moments in between those two events.

• We do make choices and decisions.
• Seemingly we make those on our own.
• If we have FAITH, God makes those decisions for us.

HOWEVER,,,

if we presuppose a creator, then that creator controls our birth, our death, and all those moments in between those two events...  BY DEFAULT...

Think of it this way...

Who controlled or controls the EVOLUTION of human beings?

Do you think the COMPLEXITIES of EVOLUTION just came about haphazardly?

That does not even make sense LOGICALLY.

What events might have been set into motion...  and when... that resulted in the current peace between ISRAEL and HAMAS?

OR...

the 2024 election of Donald Trump?

OR...

the invasion of Ukraine by Russia?

OR...

Judas betraying Jesus?

NOTE:  think about this a moment or two.  Without the betrayal of Jesus, there would have been no crucifixion of Jesus on the cross and no creation of Christianity in the wake of his death.

JUDAS HAD TO HAVE BETRAYED JESUS...

Judas HAD NO FREE WILL...