Originally Posted by
alanmolstad
so a lot of people that dont like the term "Free Will" have a way they use to get around it's use by saying that people just "feel" free.....
They admit that people sure feel they were not forced to do stuff...
But what they then leave off is that the people might have felt things that were not true at all.
But I have to object to this whole line of arguement.
If you are thinking that people just "feel" free, and just "feel" they have Free Will, but really they dont, then you are not talking about real Free Will at all.
You are describing a lie....or a self-lie.....or a delusion.....or a self-delusion.
NONE of these things can be true!
if we were designed by God to just "feel" free,...to just "feel' that we had Free Will, then our God is a big fat lie.....and evil.
For he designed us with built-in delusions , and that would point the finger of sin into his corner.
God would be guilty of creating a person who has a built-in design flaw that is the cause of all people believeing a lie, just to make god look good.
i would not worship a god like that.
So this means that I totally reject the idea that we just "feel" free....
I totally reject the idea that human free will is just a delusion.
Human Free Will is REAL!
God gave man the ability to make free decisions...real decisions....Not fake real-looking decisions...But real TRUE decisions that are free from being forced.