philosophy

Now, the discussion revolves around the problem of the relationship between predestination and free will. I already wrote in one post that free will is one of the key concepts for Christianity; it is also the justification for the existence of evil. According to Christian doctrine, a person has the right to choose in any situation – to choose good or evil. This does not mean that there are only two ways of behaving in any situation! There may be some intermediate options, more or less evil, more or less good. And a person HIMSELF decides whether to act kindly or maliciously; he decides in accordance with his ideas about good and evil, and he decides this question even when he does not consciously think about it. Christian moral norms are only the most general recommendations for behavior; it is obvious that it is impossible to give a list of commandments for each specific situation! Now, regarding predestination, God's will, etc. The idea here is that God, when creating the world, created all possible scenarios for its development – that is, Adam could break the prohibition, or he could not break it. Then everything would have been different :) And this idea – that he could have done it, or he could not have done it, and that different results come from this – is also very important. God is something that does not belong to the world and is not constrained by either space or time; being outside of time, he sees all possible paths of development. And a person's life – in this context – is a very long sequence of situations. A person finds himself in situation A; there are several ways out of it, and depending on which path he chooses, he will be presented with one of the possible next situations. In other words, it does not depend on a person what situations will be presented to him (that is, on the one hand, it depends, since he determines this with his actions, and on the other hand, it does not depend, since the person himself often cannot even remotely imagine what will happen to him tomorrow; that is, he can imagine it :D, but it is unlikely that he can guess). But it does depend on him how these situations will be resolved. That's how it is :)