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| Free will is the ability to do whatever you want, whenever you want with no regard for ANY consequences. |
You and I are using two very different definitions of free will.
Free will it seems to me would be making decisions based on the consequences. We are beings of reasoning, aren't we? We should look at the consequences of our actions before we take those actions.
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| If we have free will how come we cannot will our own perfectionism when it comes to conforming to all moral commandments of the Chruch? |
We can! Though it wont be an overnight miraculous change. Instead it'll be "line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little there a little."
The first step is the desire for it to be truth.
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| Likewise we have the religious idea of surrendering free will (indivdidual free will) and going with the flow as products of destiny and fate, letting go and letting God, etc. As in the Lord's Prayer "thy will be done" (not my free will). Which is another avenue for brainstorming. |
Surrendering? Seems to me just the opposite is true. When we begin to attempt the journey alone do we lose our free will. Drugs, alcohol, pornography these are all addictions, they diminish our ability to choose. We have been warned by the watchmen not to partake, to keep ourselves free from such chains. The choice is whether we have the faith to heed or not.
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| if we make the wrong choice and fall flat on our face. We must only assume we have the option to try again. |
I agree 100%, is that not what the atonement was all about? That though we make mistakes we can repent and try again?