Freedom? RECONSE...

WHAT IS FREEDOM?

Freedom has no limits, Freedom knows no limits

Freedom has its limits.

In Human Person, freedom has limits and no limits at the same time.

The Freedom of Human Person is NOT ABSOLUTE (NOT PERFECT)
The Freedom of God is ABSOLUTE (PERFECT)

God is PERFECTLY FREE
(Richard G. Swinburne, The Existence of God, 1979)

IS HUMAN PERSON FREE OR NOT FREE?

You are free to make a choice
You are and you will be by what you choose.

You are at the same time:
free to choose what you will be and become and
determined by the choices you made

A human person is both a POSSIBILITY(free) and DETERMINED (not free).

Your PRESENT is the fruit of your PAST choices.
Your FUTURE is the fruit of your PRESENT choices (including your PAST choices).

IS HUMAN PERSON A PRODUCER OR A PRODUCT OF HISTORY [Time]?

The PRESENT was a result of crosspoints (the condtions) and turning points (the choices made).

What are the crosspoints or condtions in your life that became turning points or that made you decide to choose which is which?

In other words, what were your past experiences that influenced you to make a choice or a decision for your life?

Human Person—is both determined by past events and free to create new events, to create his own future.

Human Person is both a PRODUCER and a PRODUCT of HISTORY.


DOES HUMAN PERSON HAVE FREE DECISION? TO CHOOSE BETWEEN GOOD OR EVIL?

The word “decision” comes from the Latin decidere, which means “to cut off ” from caedere "cut".

A crosspoint offers a turning point, to make a choice:either to be good, to be bad or to be (?)

WHAT IS MORAL FREEDOM?

God is PERFECTLY FREE
(Richard G. Swinburne, The Existence of God, 1979)

But God is not free to choose between good and evil.

It is impossible for God to do evil or to choose evil.

He is perfectly free, but he is not morally free.

Human persons are free to choose between good or evil.

This is Moral Freedom

It's a CHOICE between LIFE-GIVING or DEATH-DEALING choices.

Without the freedom to choose between good and evil,
we would not be morally free and responsible
(Alvin Carl Plantinga, The Nature of Necessity, 1974)

God made us free in order to make us morally responsible for our choices.