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    Faith On a Stone Foundation: Free Will, Morality and the God of Abraham
    Faith On a Stone Foundation: Free Will, Morality and the God of Abraham
    Faith On a Stone Foundation: Free Will, Morality and the God of Abraham
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    Faith On a Stone Foundation: Free Will, Morality and the God of Abraham

    By Stephan Grozinger

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    Science and philosophy have all but concluded that free will does not exist. What does this mean for faith? For millennia, religious thinkers have placed free will at the center of their understanding of God. Free will was what allowed humanity to make meaningful choices to either follow the will of God or disobey Him. Free will was the explanation for why suffering could exist in a universe controlled by an all-powerful, all-loving God. With free will, we were more than organic machines reacting to stimuli, and more than our nature and nurture; we could choose our own direction and that gave us inherent dignity. The idea that free will is an illusion appears to threaten the foundations of faith and belief in the God of Scripture. In this groundbreaking book, author Stephan Grozinger re-examines the assumption that free will is central to faith. He concludes that, far from being a source of anxiety or even a death sentence for faith, the idea that we do not have free will may be the instrument of its renewal. Grozinger reviews familiar Biblical stories such as The Garden of Eden, Noah, Job and Jonah and concludes that Scripture is entirely consistent with the idea that we do not have free will and, in fact, Scripture seems to urge us to reject the illusion of free will. Only when we embrace this uncomfortable truth do the richness, breadth, and immense challenge of faith reveal themselves.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateNov 30, 2016
    ISBN9781483587677
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