Free will is associated with those who have no sin. But once a person has sin they are dominated by their physical bodies where there is no free will. Free will basically comes from those who have minds which don't have dominating sinful bodies.
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So, you are now deciding what god meant with free will? How is it that you know this? Did god talk to you? Or, are you just like the rest of your kind, and think you know better?
Get your bullshit straight!
Although... I don't have a sinful body (not so much sinful as an unashamed love machine), so my free will must be good for something.
Dominated by a physical body.
I've heard this ludicrous doctrine before - the gist is that if you use your free will to choose something "sinful", then you're not free but a slave to your own impulses. Aside from the fact that you're no less a slave if you're forever constrained to never satisfy your drives at all by an incoherent book of simplistic rules and an imaginary father figure, this takes the traditional fundie mindset of "all or nothing" and assumes that it's impossible to rationally choose for yourself, as the situation arises, whether you'll satisfy a particular desire or not. The fundies who spout this garbage have binary minds, and can conceive of only two possibilities: you're either a mindless animal helplessly driven by instinct or a mindless automaton driven by orders from above to do nothing at all unless commanded to. And, so the classic fundie thought process goes, since the first extreme is bad, the other extreme must be good.
Neither position qualifies as "free will". A man who's actions are forever dictated to him by religious texts is no more free than the compulsive animals he, inaccurately, berates us atheists for being. It is the ability to consciously choose a path between the extremes, moment by moment, that is real freedom of thought and action.
“Free will is associated with those who have no sin.”
“But once a person has sin they are dominated by their physical bodies where there is no free will.”
"Free will basically comes from those who have minds which don't have dominating sinful bodies.”
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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