The Physico-Theological Argument – Those Who Have Will
Hello Rabbi,
I wanted to ask if the world wasn’t complex but the creatures that roam it had free will.
According to the cosmological view, it is reasonable to assume that there is a primary cause for all of this. Our familiarity with free will shows that that primary cause is probably also willful:
Because there are three types of possibilities in the Creator: either he is deterministic, but if so, there had to be a prior cause for him to create the world, or he is random, or he has choice. Being a primary cause rules out the first possibility. And the fact that we have free choice shows that the second option is unlikely. We are left with the third option.
What do you think about that? If so, then belief in free will is enough to believe in God and one does not need to arrive at the conclusion that the world is complex.
I don’t see much significance in our having a choice. I also don’t understand what it has to do with the existence of God. You were dealing here with his having a choice, not his actual existence.
But you yourself based the existence of God on the cosmological argument. So I didn’t understand what your argument was trying to say.
In my opinion, the first link in the chain should have a choice, otherwise it itself needs a reason (as you also wrote).
The question of course is why the first link is not choiceless. Like the atheistic approach of Big Bang and Spinoza.
That is the purpose of the argument.
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