What’s the free will?

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JerryZ:

Animal do not and cannot have free will because they lack the rational mind.

That’s not true. If I got the lead down from the hook and my dog heard it jangling, he was exceptionally keen on going out for a walk. But if he saw I had my running gear on and he didn’t fancy a 15km run, then he’d trot back to his bed and wouldn’t budge.

And if you think about it, keep going back in time and you’d reach a point where the species Homo was something entirely non-human. It wasn’t the case when that creature woke up one day and had free will and could be classed as human. So it must have been a very gradual process.

Just like my dog had it to a certain degree, other animals have it to a lesser degree.

Animals aren’t rational.
They can’t ponder their own being.
They can’t evaluate moral choices.
They respond to stimuli in purely natural ways.

 

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You should stop reformulating Catholicism and admit you disagree with it. That would be more honest IMO.

After when I read your post and studied the following statement as a whole, I realized I didn’t really reformulated it, in fact I believe it as it is.

“The will can resist grace if it chooses. It is not like a lifeless thing, which remains purely passive. Weakened and diminished by Adam’s fall, free will is yet not destroyed in the race.”

As far as the rest of your post Fhansen I believe it.

God bless