Free will and Life

            People have free will to act however they want, but we should restrain ourselves to do what is right. Wouldn’t it be fair to be free? It is fair to be free but one must keep in mind what it means to be free. The best definition of freedom that I know of goes as follows: “Freedom is not the ability to do whatever one wants but is the ability to do what one ought to do”.  This means that thought we have free will, we are not truly free if we are to do whatever we want if we sin and weigh ourselves down. Webster’s dictionary says that freedom is, “The quality or state of being free as the absence of necessity, coercion, or constraint in choice or,” but if we do something that is wrong or evil we are weighed down by those actions. Webster’s dictionary describes free will as the “freedom of humans to make choices that are not determined by prior causes or by divine intervention,” but God never forced us to do good or evil. He designed it so that if we do good it’s that much grander because we choose it.

This is the same God who sometimes takes away human life in instances such as car accidents and old age. This is different since God has ownership over human life. It’s like having an ownership of a slot machine. It doesn’t do as you say but you can do as you please to it, including dismantling it. Also if the machine becomes faulty, it can break down. If someone broke it, it’s done with and is no longer useful. Some might wonder “isn’t it kind of jerkish to do things like struck by lightning or comas for long periods of time just to die without seeing loved ones after that?” Actually it might not be so jerkish. We don’t know the effects of such events will have in the future. How can we say that God taking away anyone’s life won’t have a better impact then him not taking away another person’s life? In the end it does not matter what we want but what God wants.