There is no way to experience free will and the belief on it is quite personal. Disbelieving on free will however has a very serious impact on our social system speciality judiciary system. It could also lead to a very bad psychological state of feeling. Simply one turns to an agent how just observer thing and has no control on his/her behaviour at all.
Thats an assumption and an understandable one. I do not blame you for thinking that way because everything you experience is engulfed in temporality and so it seems only commonsense that cause and effect is a purely temporal activity. However, change cannot exist at all without the actualization of potential, and neither can change meaningfully exist apart from the objects that are changing. Neither can the existence of change be caused in an absolute sense by a cause that is itself caused to change; simply because potential cannot cause itself to exist.
This is not true, you perceive free will through introspection, and that makes its existence undeniable.
I am not clear that this is implied.
If you examine yourself, you will find that you are free to do many things. I may choose to go to the supermarket right now or I may choose to go for a bike ride instead. I might choose to not go to work tomorrow. I could choose to sin right now and go look at some porn on the internet. On the other hand, I can choose to please God and keep His commandments and not look at any porn.
I understand your point but other points/problem arises assuming if your picture is correct.
I cannot understand who we could perceive free will. Could you please elaborate on this please?
I am aware of the process so call decision making. The question is whether the process of decision making is anomalous or not.
It is implied since God is a part of this book since otherwise we were just embedded in state of time, have to write our own stories which is the result of our free will. This picture, a universe without God, if we forget the state of beginning is very simple to comprehend. The problem arises when you want to enter God in this picture, assuming that God is in state of timeless not only is state of creating creation but also in state afterwards. This picture becomes more disturbing when you want to add God omniscience (strong) to the picture which causes extra anomaly to the picture.
The problem is that your statement “God, then, God and creation,” only applies from the point of view of someone in the sequential time of creation. There is no “before” creation for God, there is merely creation as a contained, contingent act. The space-time continuum within creation includes “before” only to the point of the BIg Bang. There is NO “before” that because time begins there.
God is not a part of the book. The book represents time. Only we are within the book, and we do have to write our own actions into the story.
Your argument is quite wrong because, obviously, God did create beings with a free will - angels and men. However, some of what you said above is incorrect.
This assumes a rational thinker.
We already consider something like what you are suggesting, at least here in the US. It is known in most states as a “crime of passion.”
Linusthe2nd said:
Do Catholics believe that as a dogmatic teaching about the ontology of creation? I am not aware that this is what Catholics believe.
Is that the question? As such may be, it follows necessarily that whatever creates time is not itself “in time” and therefore it must be a timeless cause or creator.
I am not sure what you are getting at here? If change exists, then there has to be a cause of that change existing independently of the space-time continuum.
Well, firstly i don’t have to resolve any “parodox”, i need only show that a timeless creator is necessary for the creation of time.
A sphinx isn’t “lion, bird, and human”, it just has parts of all three. That’s not a contradiction.
If you don’t know what introspection is, it’s your consciousness of yourself (wikipedia could have helped you with that). Introspection is infallible.
You need to drop this idea of “T1, then T2”. God is in eternity rather than time, and he created time from eternity. The creation of time is not in a temporal sequence.
First, I corrected my argument slightly to show what do I meant. Second, I meant the act of decision making which is a unpredictable act has to be free of law of physics since law of physics are deterministic. We can continue from here if you agree with my current statement.
First, how you could show a timeless creator is needed for a creating time.