There is a common belief among mankind whether it be from man or from woman and whether you believe in a Creator or not that ALL OF US WERE born with a certain amount of FREE WILL and that this WILL is used on a daily basis to make our CHOICES and it is these CHOICES that determine the direction into which our lives will proceed and it is these CHOICES that determine or predetermine most if not all of our future outcomes.
There is no denial that we make choices and/or that for some of us, our choices are made for us whether these decisions come from our parents, our teachers, our leaders, our bosses, and/or our spouses. And that these choices do influence in some degree our future outcome and life's directions. HOWEVER, the concept of free will is a different matter altogether in that free will means the following: the power of acting without the constraint of necessity or fate; the ability to act at one's own discretion.
Consequently, free will has nothing to do with any religious beliefs as it is simply an act of bring born into the world of mankind... and, we all know that giving birth results from the sexual union of a man and a female... and, we can make the assumption that this union has nothing to do with the will of a Creator or any such other religious nonsense... especially since giving birth is as natural as breathing air... and, we can assume that the properties of our physical body have nothing to do with a Creator either as they are simply the result of millions of years of mutated evolution.
As was evidenced by Jesus and his sayings as recorded in THE BIBLE, if he had FREE WILL then Jesus would not have needed to obey the will of GOD... but, the will of GOD is necessary and the foundation of most all religion.
So... therein lies our problem.
NOW... let's look at the concept of time and the scientific fact that time has a past, present, and a future even though we can neither see our past or our future, yet we know as sure as we are breathing that it is there.
We also know from our space program that astronauts age less in space than they do on earth. Using this knowledge as a foundation, we can now make the assumption that when we send astronauts further and further out into space and we keep a record of their time relative to earth that their present would be our future. It is also possible that if these astronauts were the same age as those monitoring their progress that the monitors could die of old age before those astronauts return and still have almost half their lives to live.
Now, let's return to creation and see if it was a Creator that brought it about or some scientific anomaly. Science believes that our universe was created by the bursting forth and expansion of a black hole. By definition, a black hole is a compression of matter... so, what comes out is that which was first inside since a black hole cannot exist with nothing inside.
Yet, science cannot explain where all the stuff that was expelled from that black hole came from... and so, we must turn to a Creator for the only logical explanation which is a prime example of OCCUM'S RAZOR which states: Occam's razor is the principle that, of two explanations that account for all the facts, the simpler one is more likely to be correct. It is applied to a wide range of disciplines, including religion, physics, and medicine.
With this new concept in mind, we can easily explain the notion that if our Creator wanted to, He could see our past, present, and future and if it was His Will He could decide our choices for us by changing facets of our past which would cause us to make different choices in our present, thereby nullifying the fact that we had any free will at all.
