Does God Predetermine Our Every Action? A Brief Note

The argument for God through freewill suggests that an individual’s actions are ALL predetermined. However, the theist suggest that they are CONSTRAINED NOT DETERMINED. The materialist identifies the mechanisms of action NOT THE cause itself which is one’s will. If WILL exists, and God is the source of will by having a will Himself, then not only does He exist but His existence explains choice whereas the materialist cannot account for the existence of choice. If it is an illusion, an illusion suggests a misidentification. However, if a thing does not exist then one cannot identify the authentic from the false one unless one is aware of the thing reflected in the illusion. If one is aware of a thing, that thing must exist. Awareness is predicated on presence and presence is predicated on existence. If the presence of the thing is NOT the authentic thing then this says nothing to the authentic thing’s existence except to say it must exist in order to compare it to the presence of the misidentified thing. For instance if one sees in his mind a purple crocodile this does not mean a purple crocodile exists in the physical world since the mind is reflecting what one has seen in the physical world. However, it does suggest that purple and crocodile exist. It is just a misidentification of the presence of a thing. Now this is not to say that mental images, or eidetic images, are not real. Only that they can be just as false in terms of misidentification as perception OF the physical. Eidetic is merely atemporal, or eternal, perceptions of the world whereas physical are footstool, temporal, perceptions of the world. However, If God's Will is like a picture frame, the interior of the frame is UP TO US TO FILL. We are FREE to do whatever we like WITHIN the Frame. ANd so God partners with His creation to all creativity, even if it is constrained.