After a deep conversation / rant with my two best friends Anne and Noelle, I have come to the conclusion that there is no such thing as free will.
It came about when we were talking about how men have it easier - no periods, no hymen, no cravings, no hormones, no pregnancy, etc. My friend made a remark, something along the lines of, "Damn Eve and that apple!" To which I replied that God set them up for failure. Hey, he created man, set a big-ass tree in the middle of the Garden and then said, "Hey, don't touch this. It's awesome and great, but you can't have it." And if he's omnipotent, it stands to reason that he knew what was going to happen!
Unfair.
So, there is no such thing as free will. We're told that we're left to make our own decisions and God doesn't dictate our paths to us. But at the same time, God is supposed to know what's going to happen to us, right? How can he know what's going to happen to us - in advance - if there isn't already a path set for us? Just because we don't know what path we're set on doesn't mean that there isn't one. If someone knows what's going to happen in advance, just because we don't, doesn't mean there's a choice. There is an illusion of choice.
If you stick a rat in a maze and let it run where it will, you can't say that the rat has free will to go where it will. Lost and blind does not equal free will. Because we all know the rat is stuck. Again, just because the rat doesn't know where it's going doesn't mean it's choosing where it will end up.
Ergo, free will is an illusion. God knows what will happen to us, he can't claim that we have free will if our fate is already set in stone. Just because we don't know what's going to happen doesn't mean we're choosing. We're just going in blind and thinking we're having a choice, that we have free will and we are in control of our fate. But in reality, the simple fact is that we just don't know what's going on. There are no turns, we just think there are.
Blind and lost does not equal free will. It equals an illusion.
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