Why should we be guilty of our actions if free will is an illusion?

[Bahman]

Love is not an emotion.

How do you define emotions? Emotions is simply an inner feeling we have toward others and ourselves. Emotions mainly help us to move. Love help us to stay together.

Love is selflessly willing the good of the other.

That is charity.

Emotions tend to develop when people have relationships, but you can love with or without emotions.

And that is love which help us to have a stable relationship with others. What else it could be?

I can attest to that both from reason and personal experience.

Love has nothing to do with reason. In fact you can reason/ask why we love? The answer is that Love is simply an emotion. You can choose it or not.

Bahman- If you want a coherent discussion it would be best if you more clearly define your argument. I’m not sure I know what it is anymore.

I think that I was clear by now. Let me know if you need any definition.

Free will, in my view, is a difficult topic. Yes, I think there could be rational beings without free will. But such beings would be entirely determined. They could feel and think, but they would have absolutely no responsibility for what they do. Some people think we human beings are this way. But that completely undermines human autonomy, culpability or merit. It also undermines Christianity.

How possibly we could show otherwise (free will is real)?