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  Douglas Geivett said, “A great deal of responsibility for suffering or for evil generally in the world today is rooted in how we exercise the freedom we have.” What are evidences you have seen of the connection between the freedom to choose and human suffering?

  Posted by Austin on 02/25/2021 at 09:46

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  Austin

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  01/10/2025 at 14:54

  When we stray from God, evil finds every hole in our hearts and tried to fill them with doubt. In recent events (i.e., New Orleans), human suffering has taken place and the hands of God’s children that have strayed. They have made choices that has caused insane suffering to the people who still remain here on earth.

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  Austin

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  09/23/2024 at 23:40

  When we are given the freedoms to choose, whether we choose good or evil, God allows us to make those choices, and with each of those choices comes a consequence. We have the ability to use common sense and the free will given to us by God, to decide if a negative or positive consequence is worth the choices we make. If we don’t have that choice, there is no risk of a negative consequence. This also takes away our responsibility for what we do in life.

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  Austin

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  09/07/2024 at 10:26

  We are a nation that takes pride in its freedom. We were originally founded by God centered principals, but as we have moved away from the Church to Secularism, so has our freedoms. The USA now takes pride in its sinful and Godless freedoms.

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  Austin

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  07/31/2024 at 14:52

  Freedom to choose has given us the freedom to respond to a matter in the manner we see fit in the heat of the moment. I have seen in my life time tragic consequences due to man responding to matters that resulted in death.

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  Austin

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  07/30/2024 at 11:44

  When we are given the freedoms to choose, we are given the opportunity to make a right choice or a wrong choice. Either choice will have a consequence attached to it. Being made in the image of God gives us the ability to use common sense and will to decide if the risk of a bad consequence is worth the fun or enjoyment of a certain choice. The ability to weigh the decision is where exercising responsibility comes into play. If we were not given the choice, then typically, there is not a risk of consequence to follow, removing responsibility. Speed limits on roads and speed limits in vehicles allow us the choice to go the posted speed limit, or to go the speed limit of our vehicle. It’s our choice, and then our consequence that is our responsibility to make and fulfill.

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  In response to Dr. Paul Brand’s statement, would you exchange your freedom to choose in order to enjoy freedom from pain?

  Posted by Austin on 02/25/2021 at 09:45

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  Austin

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  09/23/2024 at 23:41

  I don’t think I would want to live in a society in which I had no choices in my life.

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  Austin

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  07/30/2024 at 11:47

  I would not choose to give up the freedom to choose for no pain. No pain= no gain. If you have no choices, you can never excel or fail. Failure is what leads to success. We can choose to succeed but we may incur pain to get to success.

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  Austin

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  06/28/2024 at 11:22

  This was summed up so well with the statement the freedom to love must come with the freedom to choose not to love. So the answer is no.

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  Austin

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  12/25/2023 at 21:41

  Absolutely not. I recently told a student of mine that everything in life is a choice. This thought blew him away. While some choose evil, many choose to do good. This is something I would never want to give up.

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  Austin

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  12/13/2023 at 08:28

  No!

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  Ravi Zacharias said, “Love cannot be brought about by robotic coercion; it has to be done by freedom of will.” Do you agree or disagree? Why?

  Posted by Austin on 02/25/2021 at 09:44

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  Austin

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  09/23/2024 at 23:43

  I agree. Laws can be brought about without emotion, but feelings, whether those of love, hate, jealousy, or pride cannot exist without free will.

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  Austin

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  07/30/2024 at 11:50

  I agree that love must be of free will. Daily, I choose to love my husband, my coworkers, my family. They upset me. They do and say things that fail me, so I have to make a choice to continue to love them. It is not easy. If it was robotic, it would be easy. I don’t have to love anyone, I choose to.

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  Austin

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  12/25/2023 at 21:43

  Deep, true love is a choice. I can say I love chocolate or sweet tea, but that is not the same kind of love that I have for my husband or children. It certainly is not the same kind of love that God has for his children.

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  Austin

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  08/19/2023 at 20:09

  I agree because we are given free will to choose when humanity was created.

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  Austin

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  02/16/2023 at 13:29

  I believe only creations made by God have the power of love

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