Freewill
These Podcasts all come from a series of 4 books I have written entitled In Defense of Christianity. The first two books are available on Amazon in eBook, paperback, or audio. You may access them directly through Audible or Amazon or through a link on my website, ronaldmesser.com. The second two books are soon forthcoming.
The purpose of the books is to explain the roots of liberty and to prove that without God liberty is unsustainable.
This Podcast is entitled Freewill.
Freewill is a compound of two words: free and will. I refer to will as that immortal part that represents our life force, our intelligence, our consciousness, and our individuality. That which we call self. That which is unique from all other ‘selfs’ in the world, past, present, or future.
‘Will’ is who we are. The basic assumption is that the spirit of life—or that essence we call life—self, consciousness, intelligence, will, or identity—cannot be created or destroyed. In other words, we have always existed as an intelligence. It does not make sense that the life force can be created; otherwise, one has the problem of first cause, the existence of God, for example, or something coming from nothing.
Science can only deal with mortal life. Without mortality science is dead. Science is meaningless. One of the greatest errors of science is in trying to connect evolution, which depends upon death, with creation which depends upon life. It leads to false and oftentimes foolish conclusions.
Nothing can create itself. If one life-force, that which we call God, self-exists, then it logically follows that all life forces self-exist on different levels of intelligence.
It doesn’t matter how many billions of years back modern science traces life on earth, only that which self-exists can have the potential of freewill; otherwise we would be the sole product of our creator, who, in the process of our creation, would set our potential and boundaries, creating an irresolvable paradox or self-contradiction. Freewill could never exist under such restrictions.
‘Free’ is an adjective that modifies the noun will. Free is a gift of God made possible through law. It is the reason for law. Learn that and all the riddles of the universe will be solved. The will self-exists as a natural attribute of intelligence. To be free, however, or to allow the will to act for itself, laws must exist. Matter and energy self-exist, but not law. Laws must be organized from self-existing matter and energy. God organized all laws, and it is through law that God created us equal.
Will self-exists, but to have freewill man must have choices among laws. Freewill depends upon law, the laws of God. For will, we look to self-existing intelligence. For freewill we look to God who organized laws to set us free.
The will can be expanded or diminished according to our choices as we interact with law, but it cannot be created or destroyed. We use the term equality because God created all mankind equal, meaning all laws apply to all mankind equally. We use the term freewill because we may choose which laws of God we will obey. Intelligence may self-exist, but it is only by obedience to law that intelligence increases; therefore, we have freewill. We owe our will to the self-existing life force. We owe our freewill to God.
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