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do we have free will? or is it false?
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Wesrock
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That may depend upon how you define free will. Not every philosophy out there uses the same definition.
The Church affirms that we do have free will.
And I, of course, agree. I personally understand free will to mean that our choices are our own, properly belonging to us, as a result of the voluntary movement of our own will based upon what we know. This is to be contrasted with the idea that we’re moved about like puppets as if our choices did not originate within us but were imposed from something external to ourselves.
The Church affirms that we do have free will.
And I, of course, agree. I personally understand free will to mean that our choices are our own, properly belonging to us, as a result of the voluntary movement of our own will based upon what we know. This is to be contrasted with the idea that we’re moved about like puppets as if our choices did not originate within us but were imposed from something external to ourselves.
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*****************************************Catechism
1033 We cannot be united with God unless we freely choose to love him …
Double predestination is the belief that God actively chooses people for damnation and it was declared a heresy. (Double: in both damnation and salvation.)
Catholic dogma is against total depravity.
Council of Trent, Session VI
Canon I.
If anyone shall say that man can be justified before God by his own works which are done either by his own natural powers, or through the teaching of the Law, and without divine grace through Christ Jesus: let him be anathema.
Canon V.
If any one saith, that, since Adam’s sin, the free will of man is lost and extinguished; or, that it is a thing with only a name, yea a name without a reality, a figment, in fine, introduced into the Church by Satan; let him be anathema.
Therefore exercise your free will thru loving obedience
1033 We cannot be united with God unless we freely choose to love him …
Double predestination is the belief that God actively chooses people for damnation and it was declared a heresy. (Double: in both damnation and salvation.)
Catholic dogma is against total depravity.
Council of Trent, Session VI
Canon I.
If anyone shall say that man can be justified before God by his own works which are done either by his own natural powers, or through the teaching of the Law, and without divine grace through Christ Jesus: let him be anathema.
Canon V.
If any one saith, that, since Adam’s sin, the free will of man is lost and extinguished; or, that it is a thing with only a name, yea a name without a reality, a figment, in fine, introduced into the Church by Satan; let him be anathema.
Therefore exercise your free will thru loving obedience
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Vonsalza
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Catholics: Yes!
Arminians: Of a sort!
Calvinists: No!
Arminians: Of a sort!
Calvinists: No!
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