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Free Will and Determinism have been discussed by philosophers for many years. Free will is associated with moral responsibility, and alternative actions that “could have” been taken over the one chosen. Determinism is the opposite view, and is associated with universal causation, and a lack of free will. Determinists believe that a person’s actions are inevitable, they are dictated by a person’s experiences, they believe nurture, nature, and even a person’s genes determine their future actions.…

I believe that God enacted or allowed the tornado to kill all who died in the natural disaster. My belief aligns with John Piper’s excerpt. God may have enacted the tornado, or He may have allowed Satan to cause it. Satan creates havoc in an attempt to steal your joy, diminish hope and stir up doubt. “If God loved me, why would He do this”? “How am I going to get through this, when I have nothing”? Satan uses different things to drive a wedge between us and God. God can intervene in everything…

It seems obvious that I have free will because I made the decision to eat a slice of cheesecake at 2am. I could have eaten a brownie instead if I wanted to. Michael Huemer says on page 104, Chapter 10 ‘Free Will and Determinism in the World of Minority Report’, “Having free will is thought to require two things: alternate possibilities and self-control.” Free will is the power of acting without the constraint of necessity or fate; the ability to act at one 's own discretion while the universe…

is the ability of free will. We have the power to make our own choices and follow the path that we chose. I don’t view God as all-controlling. We have this choice between good and evil because of our knowing of moral evils. Most of our suffering comes from this moral evil because it always has a direct impact on us and others. Also in Reuter’s lecture, he defines “Free Will Defense.” He states, “When God, in the beginning, created humans, he made them subject to their own free choice... no…

Free will is someone 's ability to do whatever and make choices that change their future in the way they want. The choices we make change our lives and leads us down our own future. In Macbeth and paradise lost, you can see two examples of how free will; you can also see how the powered choice causes two characters to face isolation in their community. In both stories, they are only isolated by their own actions, no one made them follow that path. They alone were responsible for their down fall.…

The bible is the foundation to the way humans think and act. The bible is what gives us faith, hope, and allows us to be spiritual. The bible is what helps to govern society. The bible shines light and gives us meaning in ways that is unthinkable to grasp or understand. RM (8:26-30) verse has always been around; however, this verse has been translated and understand in many different ways throughout time. These different ways include: in Augustine in the Rebuke and Grace, Augustine in the…

Freedom and Power are very similar, but are they the same? Freedom, by definition is to have the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint. Power, by definition is to hold a position of high authority or the ability to influence the lives of others in substantial ways. Power can take or give freedom, as freedom can take or bestow power. Power and freedom go hand in hand, one affecting the other, such as the leader of a country ruling his or her people,…

Response Paper “The Debate Over Free Will” In chapter nine of the book Problems from Philosophy by James and Stuart Rachels, the authors discuss the debate over free will. The idea of humans having free will is the main argument in this chapter. The authors noted that the more we learn about the human behavior, the less likely it seems that we are free. Though different groups have the same meaning for free will, the goal of this chapter is to determine if we have free will or not. The…

In his book, Free Will, author Sam Harris argues that the premises of free will, [1] “that each of us could have behaved differently than we did in the past” and [2] “that we are the conscious source of most of our thoughts, [intensions] and actions in the present” are false. Harris begins his argument by explaining that free will is an illusion because it is not our own making. Harris explains that our thoughts and intentions are the product of our unconscious mind. The point of origin of…

his own “Inconsistent TRIAD” formula that states: 1. God is omnipotent 2. God is omnibenevolent 3. Evil exists. He argues that these premises are inconsistent since all three of them cannot exist at the same time. The premise below states that the free choice of good or evil by men is dependent on God. And if men can choose good on some occasion, then men can choose good over evil on every occasion. But the existence of evil and men making bad choices a lot of the time questions the omnipotence…