6110	Forums / Theology Forum / Re: Freedom Of The Will Jonathan Edwards	on: August 23, 2008, 11:56:29 AM
1. Defining "Free Will" as choice absent any predilection could be challenged.  Flip a coin; tails I commit adultery; heads I don't.  Is that Free Will?  Electrons change energy levels and photons choose slits in the two-slit interference experiment with no apparent cause - do they have Free Will? Your the one who later in this post said that God was the cause of the created universe. If there is no cause then there is no reason for the existence of the smallest particle. Now if there is an existence of anything then in order for that thing to exist there must be an act of the will for it to be put into existence. If the power to make it exist is exercised, then it must be a power of choice. Otherwise there could be no emanation of the reality of existence. We do live in a conscious universe so that the cause is conscious reality of the existence of whatever is known. There is no difference in knowing. So that what is not known has no cause since it never has existence from our view. That is God determines what we know by its existence. Whatever happens by chance happens apart from a personal involvement of an idea. How can anything exist apart from an idea of what it is? And how can anything not have a causal knowledge in our being conscious of our view of ideas that we have? Is there such a logical idea of an uncaused cause?