8835	Forums / Main Forum / The Human Paradigm	on: July 04, 2006, 10:41:47 AM
Here is the problem i have about you view of free will. First if the will is defined as have the ability to freely choose between between spiritual good and evil then being in an equal Librium state it is really no will at all. To will is to prefer one thing over another. What you are saying is that the will causes the will to act which is a contradiction. (A self determined will )The will is not the cause of the choice. So in your theology there is no cause. And if there is no cause there is like saying there is non being. You are saying that a person determines for himself whatever he wants. So you are saying that a person has a self determined choice.  But how can the will determine to will? If the will has no reason to choose other than it being free then your view of freedom is not freedom at all. Because the will determining itself has a prior will to determine the next choice and so if you go back to the first choice then what determined that choice? Which is to conclude that there is no cause an so there is really no will in a self determined freedom sense. Which comes back to the existence of being. The self determined view of freedom is really a non being view of existence. In which in the past non being exist and becomes being in the future choices. With out a cause for choosing you have no reason the have a God. So if God does not exist then , or He exist as a non being then your view makes it plausible that the only time you would have being is in the future when you re unite with God who will have being. And isnt it true that your view of faith is irrational chance view since you are able to choose based upon your own reason so that any thing that is not rational being outside your reasoning is in the realm of faith. Now i believe you accept grace as the source of believing but since you leave the will as able and not under corruption your logic is the same as if it where out rite plagianism. So then whatever happens outside of the rational process is chance. Which is a deterministic view of life