Theology Question

Humans are imbued with free will, they can choose either righteousness or depravity.

Hurricanes and earthquakes are natural consequences of the way the Earth is constituted. They would pose very little risk to humans if we didn't willfully choose to create and live in overpopulated, crowded urban conditions, frequently in places no city should ever have been built.
 
PostmodernProphet said:
we all know you've never ignored anyone......you are too weak willed for that......
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She's an under 30 woman trying to figure herself out. You're a bitter old geezer intent on burning down the house because you're dying.

Who is the better person in that scenario, Pmp?
 
BidenPresident said:
That is standard Christian theology. It is wrong.
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Dostoyevsky famously explored the existential possibilities resulting if God took away our free will and forced us to happy and secure.

Cypress said:
The Grand Inquisitor

In a town in Spain, in the sixteenth century, Christ arrives, apparently reborn on Earth. As he walks through the streets, the people gather about him, staring. He begins to heal the sick, but his ministrations are interrupted by the arrival of a powerful cardinal who orders his guards to arrest Christ.

Late that night, this cardinal, the Grand Inquisitor, visits Christ’s cell and explains why he has taken him prisoner and why he cannot allow Christ to perform his works.

The Grand Inquisitor tells Christ that he cannot allow him to do his work on Earth, because his work is at odds with the work of the Church. The Inquisitor reminds Christ that he guaranteed that human beings would have free will. Free will, the Inquisitor says, is a devastating, impossible burden for mankind. Christ gave humanity the freedom to choose whether or not to follow him, but almost no one is strong enough to be faithful.

The Grand Inquisitor says that Christ should have given people no choice, and instead taken power and given people security instead of freedom. That way, the same people who were too weak to follow Christ to begin with would still be damned, but at least they could have happiness and security on Earth, rather than the impossible burden of moral freedom.

Thus, the Grand Inquisitor must keep Christ in prison, because if Christ were allowed to go free, he might undermine the Church’s work to lift the burden of free will from mankind.


https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/brothersk/section7/
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