What is God’s will?
Hello, when I look at a person’s ability to choose, I understand that it comes in one of two places: when I have the option of choosing between two actions, one of which is better in my opinion and the other more pleasant, and I have to overcome the pleasant for the good (similar to the example of the path you are using). When there are two equal actions before me or I do not know which one is better (although it can be argued that there is no meaning to the choice here). Since God has no weaknesses and everything is known to Him, I do not understand what it means that He wants. If He is subject to some system of values, then He will do what is better in this system, and if there is no such system, then it does not matter whether He does this or that act. One could perhaps say that although there is not so much meaning to the choice, He still wants what He has chosen, but this is a new way of understanding the concept of will. If so, what is God’s will? Thank you.
I think that his desire does indeed stem from his nature (as Ramchal writes that the nature of the good is to do good). He has a choice, but it is not realized in practice because he has no passions or constraints and he always does what is most right and proper.
And hence he decided to create the world of his own free will, but it is clear that this is what he would do because it is the right thing to do. It would be fair to say that both options are equal and he could have not created at all. According to this, it is an arbitrary will and not the right thing to do. This seems less like an explanation to me (but assumptions about the 23rd are certainly speculative).
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