Actually we do, but it is rather limited.
We can know that we do have a free will, by the fact that we can give it up to another's will.
If you are correct and we have no free will at all, then we cannot in good conscience punish any criminals, as they had no choice but to do what they did.
Regards
DL
I disagree and will trade you quotes.
I have mine, that disagree with your view, imbedded in the following O.P.
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Are non-believers doomed by Divine Design?
Scriptures say that God decides if a person will be a believer or non-believer. Those scriptures are shown in this link.
Those quotes seems to really screw up the free will notion that Christians say God gives us.
The free will that God offers is kind of a joke anyway given the number of people whose free will to live is ignored in the billions of adults, children and babies that God is shown to torture and murder in scriptures.
If the bible and Yahweh are to be believed, and as a non-believer, I, of course, cannot believe it, thanks to God, by God’s design and will against me, then why did God deny me belief or faith?
Even more important to believers, might be to answer the question of; did God make you a believer in things that you can only hope exists and can never confirm?
Are you happy with God ignoring or negating your free will to think as you please?
I have assumed that God’s work of creating both believers and non-believers is working. If that is so, and you believers must think it so, just as I as a non-believer cannot think it is working, --- and Jesus said that those with faith could do all he did and more, --- then there is not even one believer or person of faith that has ever existed.
Either the bible and Christianity is all a lie, or there must be some who can do what Jesus did.
What is your choice of those two options?
Is the bible and Christianity a lie, or is God just not creating any people with faith, --- which would make all Christians who say they have faith, --- liars.
I mean no insult here but someone is definitely lying, if we read what is written and look at reality and listen to Christians.
What do you think is the truth?
Is it just for God to create people doomed to hell even if they wanted to believe?
Regards
DL
christiefan915 (04-29-2022), ThatOwlWoman (04-29-2022)
this does happen but far less frequently than you suggest.
as shrinks learned over generations of analysis, an inability to cope with mom and/or dad push them to the easier to deal with.
Not sure why DL needs someone to "blame" but thats his thing and he's free to feel as he does.
"Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything." Joseph Stalin
The USA has lost WWIV to China with no other weapons but China Virus and some cash to buy democrats.
You have not read enough yet and are wrong.
That little O.P. was more for posting in non-atheist sites, but I thought that atheists here might be the norm, I E more moral rhaqn Christians, and I thought I would terach yiou mora moral people how to chat with immoral believers, whom you should be fighting it you are one of the more moral atheists.
If you are not, then let me teach you.
Morals are a Gnostic Christian forte.
That is why the inquisitors were sent to rid the world of us instead of Christianity's apologists.
Regards
DL
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