Just stop this 'free will' nonsense, aka. excuse why God fucked up his 'perfect' plan.
Our world can be deterministic or non-deterministic. There is no other choice.
If the world is deterministic, you have no control over what you are going to do next. Your thoughts are driven by all the cause and effects that created thoughts in your brain. The 'choices' your brain produces are the product of C&E your brain experienced before it produced the said 'choices'. The very process of 'choosing the right option' is determined by your previous experiences and the state of your brain.
If the world is non-deterministic, there is some random process that you have no control over it. The thoughts produced by your brain are the result of C&E and some random process over which you have no control. By definition, the 'choices' your brain produces are not really yours but are determined by some random process inside or outside of your brain and the current state of your brain.
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Our brains are complex automatons capable of creating illusions, including the 'free will' and "me" illusion.
Actually there is a third option. The universe including all time and space could be an imagined deterministic creation in which the creations are imagined to be free.
Here is the solution to the problem I agree with. Trigger warning you are going to absolutely hate it.
The Izbicer Rebbe and Freewillhttp://www.theapj.com/the-izbicer-rebbe-and-freewill-2/The more powerful the consciousness the more spectacular the illusion
You are a moral relativitist because you do not kill gays for breakfast as the Bible recommends.
The best way to understand the Old Testament of the Bible is as a set of ideal rules for the primitive society it was given to a barbaric primitive corrupt illiterate tribe living in unimaginable squalor surrounded and vastly outnumbered by more powerful pagan cultures.
It should be viewed as the necessary rules for that society to survive and thrive in their utterly hostile environment. When viewed from this frame of reference even the seemingly bizarre passages often fall into logical order as I discussed with Astargath immediately up thread.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1054513.msg50785483#msg50785483When trying to reconcile rules from those primitive times with today's much more complex and developed society the answer is fairly straightforward yet at the same time quite difficult. You shared it with us yourself.
Ask yourself: 'What would Jesus character do?"