This will be an attempt at helping you to understand and dispell the myth of man having a free will. Mainly that the choices we make are not constrained by internal or external influences or divine intervention. That man basically makes uncaused choices. This is a challenging subject to discuss even among the most intelligent and learned man of our time. It is an enigma. I am aware that those of you of such a persuasion don’t want to held to the strict sense of the definition of free will. Because if you did than it would necessitate that you be bound by that body of words.
However, without holding free will to its intended meaning it is not possible to have an honest and logical conclusion on this matter. It is therefore vital that we stay within the context of this term if we are to give reason a chance.
Once you get thru this lesson you will finally know the root cause of free will. I will first outline the chain of events creating this illusion:
1. Satan’s lie to Eve that they would never die if they ate from the tree.
2. Eating of the tree itself gave them the wisdom of both good and evil.
3. The lie that man was supposedly created an enlighten being and fell from
grace.
4. The Churches teaching the false doctrine of the fall and that man is an
immortal being.
Let me start by pointing out something very important you should know. This is the idea of Primordial Intellect which is born out of this philosophy. That man thru evolution of the mind, the intellect, the accumulation of science and knowledge and genetic evolution will one day become a literal god. This may perhaps sound strange from where you stand in your mind. But those in the highest of places controlling the world today are driven by this very insane idea. They don’t believe there is a supreme force at work. There are also those that are knowingly worshipping Satan which they call Lucifer. As a result they have conceived and constructed a system that is designed to completely rule those less fit. Ah, that would be you and me just in case you were wondering. This is why you find the bankers owning all the lands of the world today. This is the premise of the Masonic Lodge and Communism with the Jesuits overseeing it all. The Catholic Church being on top of it all.
Regardless of this latter mindset, I will tell you man was created by a Supreme Being with limited autonomy. To cut thru the chase understand this. Everything in creation was thought of and created by God or a supreme force if you like. Everything! Nothing left out. Even the nothing that you can’t see. After all what is nothing? There is no such a thing. We call what we can see with our naked eye “nothing”. My friend you’ve got to start thinking objectively uninfluenced for once in your life.
The problem is the tree. Once eating of the tree of good and evil man became literally like God in his mind and was able to think like God. That was God’s intention for creating the tree. By eating he came to possess the contrast of good and evil. Man now had the ability to make conscientious judgment calls. Where as when Adam and Eve were initially created, all they knew was what God put in their mind as we shall see. They were not self-centered but became centered on self after eating.
Additionally, they were made in a bone and blood physical fleshly body. (See Gen 2:7). They were not made “perfect” as it is taught from the pulpit and than took a fall. This is a must to understand because from this doctrine is taught free will. That they choose on their own to fall from grace. The fact is they did not have a presence of mind, a knowing mind, they simply just existed. They were created with a carnal mind not in an enlighten state. Knowing good and evil put them in a different dimension. A place in their mind where they were now able to think in a broader sense and make judgement. The one thing they did have in the beginning was a conscience however. This is what gave them the ability be rational being, having an innate realization like a child that eating of the tree was prohibited. They had proper mental faculty as created but not yet with the wisdom of the tree. But they did have a will to choose.
So man was created with a frail body subject to the pull of the flesh with a force called vanity. It is a force which works in man like a law. All the impurities of the heart was put in the heart of man by God. Eve was seduced thru the power of her fleshly pull. The desire of the heart is the weakest part of man. That’s how God made him. Man cannot think of anything that God has not given him. All is within a frame work of God. It is like a fish in a fish bowl. It can’t get out. It is bound by the bowl but it has everything it needs to live. God has put man in a similar situation, the earth, the universe. Everything that exist in the universe is of God, He created it all. Everything that exist burst into creation out from God even the space between matter. The actual space itself. Therefore, all the discoveries that man makes and will make was put there for man to discover.
Man lives in a codified creation by his maker.
Therefore the intentions of God is being and will be fulfilled. Within this frame work man is able to choose and plan his ways but at the end it will be God’s intention that will be done, His will. Along the way man is able to choose between good and evil. He can for example take the alphabet and create beautiful poetry. Or he can rearrange the letters and create demented writings. He has the letters in his hands to do either or but he can’t in a sense create and put another letter into it on his own. Man in other words cannot think of something totally outside the realm God. God has set the parameters.
When God told Israel I put before you life and death and to Choose life. This indicates man has the ability to make choices that would take him to two different roads, blessings or curses. Now man’s human tendencies with the pull of the flesh, unaided by the Holy Spirit will drive him to the road of perdition and God knows this. Man is a sinning machine and can’t help himself. But it is God’s divine will that man go thru this as part of his experience to learn the lesson he needs in order to one day become a spirit beings with the very mind of God in him. Man needs to come to know that he is a created being first. That he is mortal and without God he is nothing and could not have existed otherwise. God will be glorify by his entire creation.
Free will gives man the impression that he existed before and is now having a physical experience. Satan told them the truth that if they ate they would be like God. But he lied to them that they would not die and live forever. And they would of had they eaten from the Tree of Life. The Churches have run with this lie and have deceived the whole world from the pulpit. As a result many outlandish philosophies have been dream up. The Egyptians believe man is immortal. That he had an existence previously and somehow lost his way and was put here on earth by their off springs. That they were gods once. Another philosophy said man is a spiritual being and is having a dream from which he has to wake up. They believe we are God dreaming. Another said God forgot himself on purpose to remember Himself again. Not kidding. Just to mention a few.
The Scripture clearly states God created man. That he formed him from the soil he created. He created all other creatures the breath the same way. So man is a created being going thru a process of becoming a spiritual being. Man was created a living “nephesh” meaning creature in Hebrew not a soul. This divine process is life as we know it. It is God’s divine master plan to create being with the very mind He possess. What we are living thru is the very intentions of God, His will being done on planet earth. The very act of coming to know God or even wanting to know about Him is an act of God himself. Left to himself man cannot and does not have the ability or desire to want to know about spiritual things no more than a cat thinks about eating a fruit pie. But he sure thinks about eating a fish when he sees one. God is in control of all things. He has given man limited autonomy and constrained in a bowl. It is a master plan that will work to bring man into glory with his creator.
That God is all knowing of all things that will happen there is no doubt. Now can we understand this? That God knows the beginning and the end. NO. Why? Cause we cannot think outside of the box He has put us in that’s why. Just like Adam and Eve could not think of anything else until they ate of the forbidden fruit. But one day when we are born into the family of God we will understand all things for we will be like the Prince of Peace in the spirit form with all the brightness and glory. We will than have the mental capacity to fully understand spiritual things.f In the meantime it would be like trying to fit the vass ocean into a coffee cup.
Man therefore is able to choose from the many circumstances that he faces in life. The world continues on as God designed it with all its flaws and its goodness. We read in Prov 16:9:
“A man’s heart plans his way, but Jehovah fixes his step.”
So it is for man to live and make choice and reap the benefits pros or con. But than God steps into a person’s life and starts directing his steps and by divine intervention fix those wrong choice he makes to bring him into alignment with God’s intended purpose. What ever that experience might be, thru this experience of evil and the consequences of it a man is broken down by the fire of that experience. He is refined as gold and purified of those idols of the heart which he has partaken of from the tree of good and evil.
The spiritual realm resides outside the box of man’s confinement. Man with his limited autonomy cannot access and ascertain into this dimension on his own. He has no such will in him. He is bound by limitations set as laws. The very physical laws of nature dictates that all effect have a cause. It is axiomatic. The spiritual laws are the same. So when your break them they break you. But everything is spiritual. The very creation testify to this. All physical creation has Hydrogen as the basic building block. Hydrogen having one neutron and one proton in the center with an electron on the outside. The 2nd element in the periodic table is Lithium with 2 proton, 2 neutron and 2 electron. The 3rd is Helium with 3 proton, 3 neutron and 3 electron and so on. All elements in the known universe is composed of a certain number of Hydrogen atoms making up that element. But what is Hydrogen but an invisible gas. Yet out of a number of these atoms put together you get a visible object you can see with your eyes and touch with your hands. Incredible when you comptemplate on it
What I am writing I could not have done so or understood without the intervention of God in my life. I possess no such power or ability. I thus have my total being and existence in the Creator who made me. And those things which I have not the capacity to reason I accept in faith. I am not immortal. And by this very fact I am a limited being. Man makes discoveries and inventions and claims he did it putting himself in a high heaven in his own head. What he cannot see is that it was God who put that thought in him. But he cannot accept this because he doesn’t have what some call that third eye opened. He is spiritually death and blind so that he cannot see his frailty and limitation as a created being. Man is threatened by having this idea thrown into the equation.
Why? Because man has an ego, a dark force in him, another law working in him he doesn’t understand or is aware of. But he also has an innate desire to do good on a human level. But the good that he would do he doesn’t. Cause of a law of death working in him. Eventually, taking the road of lease resistance a spiritual callous forms around a man’s heart and it becomes seer creating such people of Hitler. Man is a beast and has no heart to do good although his conscience, the little voice in his head, is always there talking to him quietly. That is why a hit man will take drugs and drink before a hit and eventually become an addict. It is the only way he can stay alive and not take his own life. Because once he starts to become sober his conscience waiting for him kicks in and puts the flash light in his face. So like a vampire before a cross he runs back to the bottle or his drug. It is an escape route from reality. That is why addicts in general do what they do. It numbs that part of the brain in the back of the head that holds emotion. The conscience is what all people in general are running from. So they resolve to all kinds of binches, eating, gambling, sex, etc.
There is a spirit in man that comes together with the body to form the man and his attributes and character. The spirit is like a tape recorder. The body cannot have conscience without the spirit and vice verse. The two operate as one. A person in vegetable state is not cognitive. He or she cannot reason nor have any knowledge. The one cannot have cognitive existence without the other. This is why the Scripture describe death as being sleep. There is no conscience in the grave. The man that dies at the time cease to exist and only thru the resurrection will he have life again. The entire process from being born to death and resurrection is God ordained. God has been is and will always be the author of it all. In none of this is man free to mark his own destiny. He has no divinity or immortality.
Surely it is a difficult things to accept or rationalize this paramount reality of man having no free will. It is even more difficult and one can go crazy accepting the notion that there is no overseer in this thing called life and everything is out of control. Especially in our moment of grief when we lose a love one. To fathom that that this is it, that its all over and we will never see them again is torture of the highest kind. Life becomes so insignificant so unfair and worthless it bedazzle the imagination. Man by nature than has an innate need to believe in something and in the absence of God he creates many gods to justify his existence. So he turns to worshipping the celestial heavens, the creation itself. It keeps him from losing his mind altogether. This is why Egypt the Greeks and so on worships so many gods.
Main stream Christianity teaches the illusion of free will which gives them the idea going to heaven or hell is a working of their own hands. That they did it their way by their own power and might. And so its justify their thinking that the majority of man has chosen to make their bed with Satan in hell than with God in heaven of their own volition. It’s an ego high of colossal magnitude. It is an ego trip that makes Hitler look like a saint. It is demonic of the highest kind evident when a preacher claim hell is God’s divine judgment and people applaud with a demonic shout of joy!! Talk about the arena of Rome and its Gladiators and the saints being thrown to the lions. At least it had a final end. But God is made to be worst with a never ending torture. Man has lost his mind! Can you see it?
When we come to understand that there indeed is a Creator at work and that all things are under His control, there is an eternal spiritual release of comfort knowing that we are not junk matter that have aimously come together. It eliminates this forsaken idea of free will. But free from what I may finally ask in closing. I thank God I have not been left to myself otherwise I’d still be in the hell of a mess.