Saturday, May 9, 2009

Free will...

C.S. Lewis, a 20th century Christian philosopher, discussed free will at length. On the matter of human will, Lewis wrote:

"God willed the free will of men and angels in spite of His knowledge that it could lead in some cases to sin and thence to suffering: i.e., He thought freedom worth creating even at that price."

In his radio broadcast Lewis indicated that God "gave [humans] free will. He gave them free will because a world of mere automata could never love…"

Lewis, believing in free will, had an indirect belief in randomness by setting up a dependency of love on free will.

Randomness - encyclopedia article about Randomness.

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