Blog#4

My topic is the Case against free will and I feel the following terms are the most important and relevant terms to my topic
Determinism
Fatalism
Pre destination
Omnipotent

Determinism-this states that all events have been determined by prior events. Its also the doctrine that all events are the inevitable result of antecedent conditions, and that the human being in acts of apparent choice, it’s the mechanical expression of his heredity and his past environment.

http/www.willdurant.com/glossary.htm

Fatalism- this is the notion that no matter what we do as human beings events will unfold in the way in which they were meant to, no choice or act of an individual can change his fate. Fatalism almost if not entirely suggests that we have no free will at all, because no matter what we do events will still unfold in a destined manner. Another definition is that fatalism is a philosophical doctrine holding that all events are pre destined in advance for all times and human beings are powerless to change them.

http/www.wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

Pre-destination- there several definitions for pre destination but the best definition comes a Biblical stand point, so from a Biblical point of view pre destination means that from the time of creation God had pre destined the fate of the universe and that if people followed a certain path which is a Christian life he promised great things. Another definition is that everything is pre destined meaning that Gods knows everything before it happens.

http/www.wikipedia.org/wiki/predestination

Omnipotent-This is another term that can be defined best from a Christian point of view, Omnipotent means one that is all knowing, so since the Bible says that God is Omnipotent so knows everything that will happen even before we do it. He has everything planned out for us from our birth, we can only hope and pray that whatever plans God has for us are good.


http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnipotent