No one has unlimited free will

[James_Tyler]

There is actually great limitations upon our free will. For instance, no one can turn the moon into cheese. So we can see that God is not as liberal with what he gives mankind the ability to do. He has not made us with God-like powers able to create universes and such. We are only in control of a little. Our bodies.

I’m sorry this should have been a response to another post rather than a new thread. But I can’t delete it.

 

[Sacred_Heart_1]

There is actually great limitations upon our free will. For instance, no one can turn the moon into cheese. So we can see that God is not as liberal with what he gives mankind the ability to do. He has not made us with God-like powers able to create universes and such. We are only in control of a little. Our bodies.

I’m sorry this should have been a response to another post rather than a new thread. But I can’t delete it.

First you have to have faith in a little. God grants power to those who are first capable of handling such power; and second, the one who has little faith turns it into much faith. He’s not going to give you the keys to the Kingdom other than his spirit. Those who are in unity with his spirit have greater faith and therefore; reign in his spirit.

Try being an infant before you learn to crawl and walk and run. Its not about power to do magical things. It is about power to reign over yourself through his direction.

The limitations of free will are this: 1.) so you may be circumcised in spirit (and) 2.) power is perfected through weakness (all of which is circumcision of spirit).

 

[davidv]

I think the OP conflates the meanings of free will with that of freedom. Even the CCC occasionally uses the terms interchangeably.
CCC 1731:

By free will one shapes one’s own life. Human freedom is a force for growth and maturity in truth and goodness; it attains its perfection when directed toward God, our beatitude.

CCC 1704:

By free will, he is capable of directing himself toward his true good. He finds his perfection "in seeking and loving what is true and good."7

Oxford Dictionaries defines freedom as:

1.the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint:

I take this to mean that we have unlimited freedom to choose good over evil, independent of whether we can implement this choice, which can be very limited as your example indicates.

 

[Mary_Estelle]

Free will is the ability to chose right from wrong, good from bad. In a sense we are co-creators with God, for God, but not the same as God or anything near a Godly level. God has given most of us the mental and physical tools to “create,” to make the world better or for worse, but no, not to turn the moon into cheese. P. S. I get my cheese at Wal-Mart. Peace.

 

[kdbueno]

Free will is not primordially able. It is consecrated and cannot be divided according to the primer divine essence