Monday, May 01, 2017

Response To https://twitter.com/CrispySea/status/746383797881573376

To me, our relevant comments seem reasonably interpreted as suggesting that I view free will as a capability with a continuum of levels perhaps appropriately defined as ability to choose from a set of options, and that you view free will as a binary capability. I respectfully hypothesize that, to me, free will as a binary capability seems to constitute omnipotence, which might be reasonably defined as ability limited by nothing other than "logic", if not ability limited by nothing. God's omnipotence seems based upon God being the source of everything, and, apparently therefore, being retentive of God's level of control over everything. To me, logic seems to suggest that no point of reference other than God can be omnipotent because no point of reference other than God is source of everything. Limited free will/self-determination seems to be the logical potential for points of reference other than God. Humans seem suggested to have the highest level of free will/self-determination of all humanly-observed existence. The Bible,science and history seems reasonably interpreted as suggesting that humans might not have done well by the amount of free will/self-determination humans do have, due to the extent to which humans have been unwilling to accept the apparent reality of God as optimal primary relationship and sovereign authority.