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Is There Free Will in Heaven?

By Will Green Is there free will in heaven (or rather the new heavens and new earth)? How can the people in heaven be free if you know they will always do the right thing for an eternity? Here is an answer I like to th…
When We Self-destruct

One of my favorite novels of all time is The Stranger by Albert Camus. I especially like it for a particular passage in its final chapter. Meursault—the main character and narrator—sits in jail after having k…
Does Free Will Contradict the Laws of Physics?

By Will Green People often say that free will contradicts the laws of physics because free will implies a 'garden of forking paths' where you can do A or B. But the laws of physics imply that either history was fixed at…
Free Will and The Adjustment Bureau

By Bryan at The Mockingbird Blog Attempting to strike while the iron is hot, I figured a quick review of the Adjustment Bureau might be helpful given this morning's earlier NYT post. We posted the trailer for Bureau wa…
On Depression, Writing, and Free Will

As a depressive, the ability to summon, focus, and properly orient my creative energies long enough to write anything I’d consider worthwhile—or even lucid—is often a fleeting privilege. Time and again,…
Free Will: A Lesson in Grammar

By Will Green Does humanity's instinctive grammar indicate that free will is compatible with God's knowledge of everything? Consider the words "will" and "must". One use of the modal verb "will" is to "express inevita…
Is Our Free Will Broken?

By Will Green We like to think that we have free will and can decide our own values and to act on those values. But let's say someone's free will wasn't working properly. There are probably a number of ways this coul…
Possibility and Probability: An Unusual Aspect to Free Will

By Will Green If we have free will, then we have something that has several unusual attributes. One feature of free will is that it separates the possibility of something from the probability of it. We normally think…
Optical Illusions, Free Will, and Omniscience

By Will Green Here is a link to a picture of the 'leaning tower illusion'. The two towers are really identical, but the brain expects that the second tower will lean more because of the way the brain processes perspect…
How is God Free if He Cannot Sin?

By Will Green James 1:13: "When tempted, no one should say, "God is tempting me." For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone" How can God have free will, and be all-powerful, if He cannot do evil? I t…