Good statement, Andrew. Then there is the "We make plans and God laughs" notion. The notion of Divine Will. Not in the Abraham Lincoln sense that god judges right and wrong. More in the sense of life unfolding, "Not my will but thine be done" Like Abraham on top of the mountain of what the Lord has seen, willing to give up his only son, and in that willingness, all is returned to him and more than he could have willed for himself.From the mystic's view, we are given free will to learn that what is happening in all of creation is divine will, and perfect in and of itself. Our free will, then, becomes agape, or the love of god expressed by us in every moment.The total surrender of self will to divine will is said to be grace: http://howtotellagreatstory.com/2012/12/the-non-duality-of-advaita-and-the-christian-metaphor-by-merlyn-swan/ <http://howtotellagreatstory.com/2012/12/the-non-duality-of-advaita-and-the-christian-metaphor-by-merlyn-swan/>
On Sunday, March 22, 2015 at 3:10:52 AM UTC-4, andrew vecsey wrote: > > I do not think that atoms have free will. I am not sure about plants and > animals. But I believe that most humans do have free will. It is our > greatest gift from god. We are free to imagine and we are free to think > about our imaginations and the imaginations of others. If we prepare > ourselves sufficiently enough and if we follow our intuitions, we can then > try to create and manifest imaginations to become a part of our reality. > Even to the point of breaking the bonds of physical chains that bind us > down, like those of gravity. But freedom is unconditional, otherwise it > would be meaningless. That means that we are free to give up our free will > and to be led along a predetermined way. Once we have freely given up our > free will, we are even free to be ignorant of that and to falsely believe > that we still have free will. It is as simple as that, in my simplistic way > of looking at things. > > On Sunday, March 22, 2015 at 1:45:06 AM UTC+1, RP Singh wrote: > ... -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
