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Struggles by Non-Christians
I am starting to hate free will
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<blockquote data-quote="TasteForTruth" data-source="post: 77070723" data-attributes="member: 273439"><p>To my knowledge, God has never compelled any of us to choose a particular thing, including whether or not to exist. And by "exist," I mean as beings <em>capable of expressing </em>our own will. Granted, I don't know that God has told us about that moment in eternity where we were offered the option to become agents of intelligent choice, as opposed to merely intelligences with the potential to choose. But drawing from both what He has told us, and from his history <em>with </em>us, it seems incongruent with his pattern that we would have been forced out of a place of neutrality onto a path that would lead to an eternal destination that was not neutral. So I accept that I stepped onto the path because I chose to when actually given the option to choose, not because God placed me on the path without my choosing. And to be perfectly honest, I'm betting that I was <em>very </em>happy to be given the choice, as eternity with only the potential to express will—and, most critically, knowledge of that potential—would seem like an "itchy" existence, indeed. I'll bet we all were <em>very </em>ready to <em>choose </em>to become will-expressive!</p><p></p><p>It's all gravy from there, I'd say.</p><p></p><p>But I do agree that many of man's popular belief systems ascribe to God the placement of man into a circumstance where choices and destinations are, ultimately, purely binary. I'd find living in such a system exhausting, too (I don't like "boxy" gods).</p><p></p><p>I don't believe we can choose our way back to neutrality. At the same time, if in the end it is "freedom from" both God and Satan that we desire, I don't doubt but that God will give us as close to that outcome as is within His power to grant. Though as we grow in the truth, don't we desire neutrality less? After all, to be neutral is to be devoid of purpose. That would be the ultimate, eternal boredom.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TasteForTruth, post: 77070723, member: 273439"] To my knowledge, God has never compelled any of us to choose a particular thing, including whether or not to exist. And by "exist," I mean as beings [I]capable of expressing [/I]our own will. Granted, I don't know that God has told us about that moment in eternity where we were offered the option to become agents of intelligent choice, as opposed to merely intelligences with the potential to choose. But drawing from both what He has told us, and from his history [I]with [/I]us, it seems incongruent with his pattern that we would have been forced out of a place of neutrality onto a path that would lead to an eternal destination that was not neutral. So I accept that I stepped onto the path because I chose to when actually given the option to choose, not because God placed me on the path without my choosing. And to be perfectly honest, I'm betting that I was [I]very [/I]happy to be given the choice, as eternity with only the potential to express will—and, most critically, knowledge of that potential—would seem like an "itchy" existence, indeed. I'll bet we all were [I]very [/I]ready to [I]choose [/I]to become will-expressive! It's all gravy from there, I'd say. But I do agree that many of man's popular belief systems ascribe to God the placement of man into a circumstance where choices and destinations are, ultimately, purely binary. I'd find living in such a system exhausting, too (I don't like "boxy" gods). I don't believe we can choose our way back to neutrality. At the same time, if in the end it is "freedom from" both God and Satan that we desire, I don't doubt but that God will give us as close to that outcome as is within His power to grant. Though as we grow in the truth, don't we desire neutrality less? After all, to be neutral is to be devoid of purpose. That would be the ultimate, eternal boredom. [/QUOTE]
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