What is Free Will really??

by SweetBabyCheezits 40 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  THE GLADIATOR

  PSacramento

  To be a slave of Christ is to be a slave to love and to do Christ and God's will is to live our life with love and fellowship with all.

  Not such a bad thing is it?

  Not at all bad, even a noble endeavour. If we wish to live that way then it becomes our will. If not then it requires us to surrender our own will. Many bible passages make that clear, as do other Holy books.

  We all seek to live with the ideals that we are personaly comfortable with, and in time they can change. If we can do that then we are free.
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  tec

  Surrendering our own will is a choice also, though, isn't it?
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  THE GLADIATOR

  Tammy: Surrendering our own will is a choice also, though, isn't it?

  It is but then we no longer have free will. We have traded free will for an ideal.

  We are just playing with words, which is fun, but at the end of the day, or sooner, we all do what we want to. Which is, I guess, free will!
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  PSacramento

  We are just playing with words, which is fun, but at the end of the day, or sooner, we all do what we want to. Which is, I guess, free will!

  Bingo :)
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  tec

  lol
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  SweetBabyCheezits

  Seems to me it's all about perspective. - Captain Obvious
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  sabastious

  Nice free willy poster, that's classic.

  -Sab
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  PSacramento

  Nice free willy poster, that's classic.

  Much more appropriate than the XXX rated version of "free Willy" that I was going to post.
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  jaguarbass

  Free will, is the reason we are having the experience we are having, because we are not robots.

  We are God and we decided to entertain ourselves. Free will is the format we would follow.

  When you die you go back to God paradise and start all over again when you get bored.

  If we didnt have free will we couldnt even bitch about not having free will.

  At least this is what I have come to think. I dont expect many to agree.

  Use your free will to make the earth a better place for your next visit.

  I would say history shows that many have done that.
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  elderelite

  ok I know i cracked a joke earlier but I want to pose a serious thought here..

  On this matter of free will, is it indeed free will.. concider.. it has been reasoned that its free will but we have to accept the consiquensis (sorry for spelling)..

  but here is the delima..If we serve God we live either forever on earth or heaven or something like that.. If we dont serve God he will kill us.. that dosent seem like free will but ok.. a choice and a result.. HOWEVER it was God who gave us the WILL and the DESIRE to live forever or go to heaven or what have you... So if we dont serve him we have basically denied a biological imparative he gave us and have chosen to committ suicide.. hardly plausable. It dosent seem like free will at all...