0:04 _On Freedom of The Will_ _Deconcordia_ _On The Fall of The Devil_ We have freedom 1:42 Polageius, living a good life, behaving by God’s law, _earns_ Salvation 2:41 God’s Grace alone Saves Us 5:57 More Options. More Freedom No Options. No Freedom Freedom - The ability to choose amongst options 6:48 _God cannot act freely_ 7:16 John _Sinners are Sin’s Slaves_ Paul _Sin dwells within_ Voluntary slavery Serving God > Serving Sin 8:50 (Falling is a choice (?) 9:39 Will is the chooser (Right, Strong Will pursues Righteousness Wrong, Weak will pursues Sin) 11:31 Anselm’s Student 1. You can’t blame people for necessary sin, can you? 1a. They are still making the wrong choice, of their accord
One cannot earn salvation, only damnation. One is saved by the acceptance of a GIFT, Grace, no merit there. Damnation, OTOH, is the prideful refusal of that same gift. Thus, the damned are only getting 'what they asked for'.
So, freedom is provisional. It appears as a choice, but to make the wrong choice isn't an act of freedom, but is an 'enslavement' to sin. What separates humans from everything else that exists? Is it our morality or our freedom? If it is our morality shouldn't this ultimate good transcend our freedom? If it is freedom and our individual will then the moral act takes on arbitrariness. It becomes dependent on context as an act of free choice.
Sin is not like trying to cut with wrong edge of knife, but like putting knife to a purpose unintended by its maker, say, picking a lock. FW sins per aliud, not per se. A sinful agent chooses incidentally an illicit end, rather than his own rectitude (for its own sake) as he was meant to do inherently/by Gods design. Didn't the knife pick the lock? No, better to say a pointed object, which happened to be a knife, did. Or, a knife did so, but 'only in a pinch'.
When we see do we have a choice? Does our eye (our genes) determine what we see? Does Nature determine what is seen? Does light determine what can be seen? Light does not come from the eye, it is independent of our genetically developed eye. The eye is limited by two things. The first limit is its range. The eye 👁 cannot see all forms of light, nor can it see farther away(telecopically), or nearer(microscopically). The second limit of the eye is the "attention" of the being which "posesses" the eye 👁. The eye can only see "where" it looks, which is determined by the user. As human beings we cannot choose what all there is to be seen. That is determined by the limitations of our eye. What is potential is denied by genes. Evolutionary development denies us completeness: total freedom of choice. What the eye can "actually" see is within our scope of freedom. Within our choice. There is a limited freedom of choice that the eye posesses. Therefore as human beings the potential is "momentarily" out of reach of our "will". However, the actual is not out of reach of our "will". The reason the potential is "momentarily" out of reach and not "forever" out of reach has to do with time. Time in the form of evolution (genes) versus time in the form of thought. The "will" is twofold. There is the Natural will which deals with what it can; and there is the supernatural will which deals with what may be possible. These two wills are exemplified by the human body and the human mind. Where the eye can only see so far, the mind, aided by the faculties of the brain called memory, can "see" further. Whether by intuition, extrapolation, calculation, ratiocination, or by that "grace" called prophesy or dream, the "will" can exceed the Evolutionary limits placed on it. It is this "ability" which men call "freedom of will". The bridge between the actual and potential, between evolution (genes) and civilization is called "will". This will takes the form of thought, whether in rationalization, dream, extrapolation, prophesy or something else. It is thought, in all its forms, which is sin or grace. Which gives us the freedom we exhibit as culture or morality. For it is within culture and morality that the future (potential) is determined. As they can be determined so our fate can be determined.
0:04
_On Freedom of The Will_
_Deconcordia_
_On The Fall of The Devil_
We have freedom
1:42 Polageius, living a good life, behaving by God’s law, _earns_ Salvation
2:41 God’s Grace alone Saves Us
5:57 More Options. More Freedom
No Options. No Freedom
Freedom - The ability to choose amongst options
6:48 _God cannot act freely_
7:16 John _Sinners are Sin’s Slaves_
Paul _Sin dwells within_
Voluntary slavery
Serving God > Serving Sin
8:50 (Falling is a choice (?)
9:39 Will is the chooser
(Right, Strong Will pursues Righteousness
Wrong, Weak will pursues Sin)
11:31 Anselm’s Student
1. You can’t blame people for necessary sin, can you?
1a. They are still making the wrong choice, of their accord
I wait for this one! Great lecture!
Thank you for making these public
One cannot earn salvation, only damnation. One is saved by the acceptance of a GIFT, Grace, no merit there. Damnation, OTOH, is the prideful refusal of that same gift. Thus, the damned are only getting 'what they asked for'.
Says you, and you're wrong
So, freedom is provisional. It appears as a choice, but to make the wrong choice isn't an act of freedom, but is an 'enslavement' to sin.
What separates humans from everything else that exists? Is it our morality or our freedom? If it is our morality shouldn't this ultimate good transcend our freedom? If it is freedom and our individual will then the moral act takes on arbitrariness. It becomes dependent on context as an act of free choice.
Aion58 There is no freedom apart from morality and vice-versa
Sin is not like trying to cut with wrong edge of knife, but like putting knife to a purpose unintended by its maker, say, picking a lock. FW sins per aliud, not per se. A sinful agent chooses incidentally an illicit end, rather than his own rectitude (for its own sake) as he was meant to do inherently/by Gods design. Didn't the knife pick the lock? No, better to say a pointed object, which happened to be a knife, did. Or, a knife did so, but 'only in a pinch'.
When we see do we have a choice?
Does our eye (our genes) determine what we see? Does Nature determine what is seen? Does light determine what can be seen?
Light does not come from the eye, it is independent of our genetically developed eye.
The eye is limited by two things. The first limit is its range. The eye 👁 cannot see all forms of light, nor can it see farther away(telecopically), or nearer(microscopically). The second limit of the eye is the "attention" of the being which "posesses" the eye 👁. The eye can only see "where" it looks, which is determined by the user.
As human beings we cannot choose what all there is to be seen. That is determined by the limitations of our eye. What is potential is denied by genes. Evolutionary development denies us completeness: total freedom of choice.
What the eye can "actually" see is within our scope of freedom. Within our choice. There is a limited freedom of choice that the eye posesses.
Therefore as human beings the potential is "momentarily" out of reach of our "will". However, the actual is not out of reach of our "will".
The reason the potential is "momentarily" out of reach and not "forever" out of reach has to do with time. Time in the form of evolution (genes) versus time in the form of thought. The "will" is twofold. There is the Natural will which deals with what it can; and there is the supernatural will which deals with what may be possible. These two wills are exemplified by the human body and the human mind.
Where the eye can only see so far, the mind, aided by the faculties of the brain called memory, can "see" further. Whether by intuition, extrapolation, calculation, ratiocination, or by that "grace" called prophesy or dream, the "will" can exceed the Evolutionary limits placed on it. It is this "ability" which men call "freedom of will".
The bridge between the actual and potential, between evolution (genes) and civilization is called "will". This will takes the form of thought, whether in rationalization, dream, extrapolation, prophesy or something else.
It is thought, in all its forms, which is sin or grace. Which gives us the freedom we exhibit as culture or morality. For it is within culture and morality that the future (potential) is determined. As they can be determined so our fate can be determined.