Response to Karla

This is in response to Karla's question "Are we part of nature or the willing of God?" This question reminds me of the whole conversation and discussion we had in class today and I thought it was a very interesting topic. We make choices every day as part of our own lives, big and small, and never really think too much of it. Many tiems we rely on the conditions and environment around us to help us make our decisions, but is that really free will? It is hard to be sure if these are decisions of our own free will or if they are planned as destiny from a higher source [God]. The choices we make may be what we decide at the time but they also may have been decided for us long ago as a planned future from what God decided and he knows exactly what will happen and what we will decide before it even happens. You always hear people ask the question Why would God let this happen to me? Was the consequence of our own choices or God's plan? This goes into the discussion we had on good verses evil as well. The tough choices we are faced with challenges us to help us grow and appreciate the good things in life no matter how small or great they are. We take for granted the easier choices we make every day like picking out what to wear that day or choosing what to eat for breakfast. Then we complain about a harder decision like having to have an intense conversation with a friend or whether or not to quit a job because of a possibilty of a better one. We blame God for these tough challenges because we wish everything would come easy to us. But again, the challenges make us appreciate the rest of life whether it is destiny or of our own choice. We as humans are only a tiny part of a bigger world. We sometimes forget how much else is out there around us and what is "supposed to be."

Aside from society's rules, would humans be able to differentiate right verses wrong?