I grew up going to church but I’m not religious now and I never really understood this part.
Please, no answers along the lines of “aha, that’s why Christianity is a sham” or “religions aren’t logical”. I don’t want to debate whether it’s right or wrong, I just want to understand the logic and reasoning that Christians use to explain this.
Humans believe they have free will. If you think that you have free will, in what way does that differ meaningfully to you from actually having free will?
This gets weird, because the human brain appears to make decisions unconsciously before you consciously make that choice. It appears that our “rational” , thinking brain is making up reasons why we did a thing, rather than those reasons actually driving the choice. So did you–the consciousness that you conceptualize as being yourself–really make that choice, or is there some other ‘dark’ you that’s driving, and you only think you’re in control?
