Do you believe in Free-Will, the Soul, and God?

[tinyp3nis]

yes/no. I went with no.
no.
no.

I think free will could be yes or no. Do I believe in randomness?

[Alexander's Horse]

Originally posted by SuperSneak
I believe in all of those things and more.

You believe in my infallibility - wow

[Gary]

Can't one be undecided about one in three of those things ?

[Rogan Josh]

Originally posted by Gary
Can't one be undecided about one in three of those things ?

No you can't. That would have caused too many poll options (3^3+2=29).

[General Ludd]

I do not believe in free-will, and I only believe in souls and god in a metaphorical and spiritual sense, not literally.

Since this is apolyton, I'll assume you mean literal belief and vote no to all.

[Dauphin]

I don't believe in free-will, nor do I believe in determinism. I believe everything is random chance. I have a hard time believing that a consciousness is able to effect the way we behave - I can imagine it does to a small degree, but most of our actions are involuntary.

I believe that a soul exists in the sense that we can, not necessarilly will, exist after we die. I'm not sure I would call it a soul.

I believe that there is a God, but I'd be hard pressed to describe what type of God He is. Omniscient? Omnipotent? Omnipresent? I don't know.


Basically I'm stuck in the centre on each of the option.

[SlowwHand]

I believe in free-will. I believe in the soul. I believe in God.

[Caligastia]

Re: Do you believe in Free-Will, the Soul, and God?

Originally posted by Rogan Josh Free-will: by this I mean, the ability of you personally to determine your own actions. Do you believe that you are a sentient entity who can make decisions (and have independent thought) or do you believe that your actions are completely constrained by the physical state in which you find yourself. (in other words, your brain works in a fully (perhaps quantum mechanical) deterministic way, just like any other physical object).

I believe that we are "largely electrically and chemically controlled ... highly animallike" in our "common behavior" and "emotional" in our "ordinary reactions". However I do believe that we are able to rise above our animalike reactions and instincts, and exercise true "free-will" from time to time.

Soul: Do you believe that there is any part of yourself which is in any way separate from your physical body? Or are you simply the sum of all your cells, neurons and whatever which we traditionally think of as your 'body'.

The soul is the real you. The rest is just a monkey-body that you inhabit for a short time.

God: By 'God' I mean an omnipotent being who is sentient and capable of making descisions - so I do not include some philosophical princile or scientific law etc. It need not be the Christian God however.

All religions worship the same God, they just give him different names, and have varying degrees of success in discerning his true nature.

[loinburger]

Yes, yes, no.

[Lincoln]

God is in control of even our will. I would not use the word 'free' therefore to describe our will. But there is a will of mankind and a will of God and mankind ultimately causes God's will to be done whether he wants to or not.

[DinoDoc]

I find myself in agreement with Aquinas when it comes to the existance of free will.

[Caligastia]

Originally posted by Lincoln
God is in control of even our will. I would not use the word 'free' therefore to describe our will. But there is a will of mankind and a will of God and mankind ultimately causes God's will to be done whether he wants to or not.

So what you're saying is that we have freewill, but all things work together for good. I can agree with that.

[Lars-E]

Sounds like predestination, Lincoln...

[Al'Kimiya]

nyy

[SlowwHand]

I say Free Will, because God gave us a mind to make decisions with; I've never believed, and never will, that God is a babysitter.