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mindzer0 · 04-15-2007, 01:20 PM

Don't kno if this has already been brought up, but if not, i'll bring it up now.

There is a paradox in most religions that has bugged me for most of my life and it is simply this: How can any religion that claims to have some all powerful being watching over and directing them, claim to have free will here on earth if that being didn't ask them if they even wanted to exist in the first place???

Yes they may have gained 'free will' after they were created, left or right, good or bad....paper or plastic, but the most important choice they could have made in regards to their life was taken away from. I personally don't see how one can say they have free will when it only works up to a certain point. To me, free will is only 'free' when it is complete and unrestrained..... but thats just me.

Thoughts?

04-15-2007, 01:20 PM	#1 (permalink)
mindzer0 Junior Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 3	Free wil paradox in religion Don't kno if this has already been brought up, but if not, i'll bring it up now. There is a paradox in most religions that has bugged me for most of my life and it is simply this: How can any religion that claims to have some all powerful being watching over and directing them, claim to have free will here on earth if that being didn't ask them if they even wanted to exist in the first place??? Yes they may have gained 'free will' after they were created, left or right, good or bad....paper or plastic, but the most important choice they could have made in regards to their life was taken away from. I personally don't see how one can say they have free will when it only works up to a certain point. To me, free will is only 'free' when it is complete and unrestrained..... but thats just me. Thoughts?