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To: Boogieman
"Really? So you look to the Bible for what is true on EVERY matter and don’t use your God-given reason to figure anything out for yourself? That must be painful, as I imagine you keep grabbing hot things off stoves and such, since the Bible doesn’t tell you not to do so."

Au contraire...the Bible does give much information about how people think...and it has much to say about this topic. But, I am curious...and so we don't miss one another...do you understand "free will" to mean the unaided ability to decide a future choice without the intervention of God? If not, please provide a definition of "free will".

113 posted on 05/12/2015 3:19:08 PM PDT by Dutchboy88
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To: Dutchboy88

“do you understand “free will” to mean the unaided ability to decide a future choice without the intervention of God?”

Well, that would have to depend on what you define as “intervention”, because we wouldn’t be here to decide anything if God hadn’t created us, and designed us with a capacity for reason. Other than that, though, yes, I’d say free will is the ability to make a decision of your own volition.


134 posted on 05/13/2015 6:41:37 AM PDT by Boogieman
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