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Free Will and Freedom
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Free Will and Freedom
Free Will
Unique to Humans as we are rational beings
Free Will
A gift from God that allows us to choose our own actions
Means we have the option to turn away from God, or to choose Evil
Without free will it is impossible to choose a relationship with God.
History
God punishes them
Adam and Eve Created
History
God promises redemption-The Protoevangelium
"The Fall" -Adam and Eve disobey God and commit the first sin
Protoevangelium
The Promise
Genesis 3:14-15 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)
14 The Lord God said to the serpent,
“Because you have done this,
cursed are you among all animals
and among all wild creatures;
upon your belly you shall go,
and dust you shall eat
all the days of your life.
15 I will put enmity between you and the woman,
and between your offspring and hers;
he will strike your head,
and you will strike his heel.”
You = Serpent
Woman= Mary
Woman's offspring= Jesus
He/His= Jesus
Freedom
Competitor
Our Company
Freedom
Freedom makes us morally responsible for our actions IF THEY ARE VOLUNTARY.
Does not imply the right to say or do anything
Choose good: freedom is enhanced, more free
Choose evil: freedom is limited by sin
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Thomas Merton
“Perfect spiritual freedom is a total inability to make an evil choice. When
everything you desire is truly good and every choice not only aspires to
that good but attains it, then you are free because you do everything that
you want, every act of your will ends in perfect fulfillment.
Freedom therefore does not consist in an equal balance between good and
evil choices but in the perfect love and acceptance of what is really good
and the perfect hatred and rejection of what is evil, so that everything you
do is good and makes you happy, and you refuse and deny and ignore every
possibility that might lead to unhappiness and self-deception and grief.
Only the [person] who has rejected all evil so completely that he/she is
unable to desire it at all is truly free.”
In choosing to do go good and be in solidarity with God, we are freer to live in a way that brings us more life-we settle our restlessness
Sum up
In choosing what is wrong will bring us TEMPORARY HAPPINESS, then we are imprisoned, not truly free to live the life we want to live-we become more restless