Monday, March 14, 2011

Free will vs calvinism argument

When we stand before a judge for a crime you did commit, is there ever a time that you can say, it really wasn't me, was someone else who made me do it, when all evidence points indeed to you?

Are you or are you not responsible for your actions?

if it was the force of predestination of factors existing already which are beyound your control - your temprement, your environment and influences which they contained that caused you to do your crime, then God must be the one on trial because in effect you are saying that God is the one who caused you to do it, because He is the ultimate cause of all the conditions which you mentioned, and you are indeed innocent.

Rubbish. You are tried because you are responsible. because there is a power in you which you, not God controls to do or not to do. The usage and stewardship of that power is what God we are accountable to God for. We will all be tried before God and answer to Him on that great day what we did with our time, our choices, our minds, our families.

Yes people indeed blame God and blame others, but in doing so they believe the law to be unjust and the judge to be partial, which is a greater offence than any crime they have commited.

You are in fact saying 'I am a law to myself and there is no objective criteria of morality which i a moral being, capable of choosing my own behaviors and actions- is responsible to'.

Such a person is not human. He has lost the essence of being even human and exists on the the basest level,. The essence of being human is that we are moral beings, responsible to an absolute standard of morality and responsible to God for our actions, words and choices.

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