The ultimate leap of faith?
Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2014 6:12 pm
This ideia crossed my mind some years ago, when I was actually believing in the possible existence of the God of the Bible.
It goes like this: the boundaries between our brain and our soul are quite unclear (to the point of some people thinking we have no soul, just brain activity). Still, medicine has proved over and over that some changes in the inside of our body can change our entire personality, will and so on. Now, this idea would probably not be possible in our world, but let's pretend for a moment...that a person could clearly identify a specific part of our brain that contained all our will to sin. Like...a part of our brain that clearly controlled our moments of pride, rage, envy and any sort of will to confront God's will.
Then, let's assume that part of our brain, due to some kind of luck, had around zero importance to our survival as a human being. As if we could totally remove that part of our brain with a surgery and still work as a human with no major chances whatsoever.
Now, let's picture what a christian could do with this. (Again, this is just pretend, I'm not saying this could happen in real life.) Removing that part of his/her brain would be...an opportunity, maybe? A way to make sure he/she would never want to sin again? A way to "always" being in harmony with God, with absolutely no will of doing something that God might not appreciate? A way to feel no more the consuming agony sometimes caused by our inner conflict between listening to our will or God's will?
I think this in an interesting idea, but I'm not sure of how it would work when it came to the so-called "free will". I mean...according to some experts on this matter (which, in some cases, include mr. Deem), God sent us here so we could make use of free will to choose whether to accept God or not. This is already quite debatable, but the point is...technically speaking, doing that operation would end our free will?
I don't think we would, since we would still be able to choose between, let's say, fixing our friend's bike or suggesting he comes to work in our car (just an example, not necessarily the best). Still a choice to take, but both options would be helpful. And if we could still make a choice in our own, that means we would still have free will...wouldn't we?
Would God consider a sin to make an operation that could interfere with our free will? If so, why would He? After all, the decision to make the surgery had been done by "us" with all our free will. With all the possible choices we could make. Furthermore, it be a choice made towars God's will, not against Him. Wouldn't the possibility of totally removing our brain's "mean side" be the ultimate leap of faith? The ultimate action to fulfill God's will by making us not even feel like doing something He wouldn't wish?!
What are your thoughts on this?
It goes like this: the boundaries between our brain and our soul are quite unclear (to the point of some people thinking we have no soul, just brain activity). Still, medicine has proved over and over that some changes in the inside of our body can change our entire personality, will and so on. Now, this idea would probably not be possible in our world, but let's pretend for a moment...that a person could clearly identify a specific part of our brain that contained all our will to sin. Like...a part of our brain that clearly controlled our moments of pride, rage, envy and any sort of will to confront God's will.
Then, let's assume that part of our brain, due to some kind of luck, had around zero importance to our survival as a human being. As if we could totally remove that part of our brain with a surgery and still work as a human with no major chances whatsoever.
Now, let's picture what a christian could do with this. (Again, this is just pretend, I'm not saying this could happen in real life.) Removing that part of his/her brain would be...an opportunity, maybe? A way to make sure he/she would never want to sin again? A way to "always" being in harmony with God, with absolutely no will of doing something that God might not appreciate? A way to feel no more the consuming agony sometimes caused by our inner conflict between listening to our will or God's will?
I think this in an interesting idea, but I'm not sure of how it would work when it came to the so-called "free will". I mean...according to some experts on this matter (which, in some cases, include mr. Deem), God sent us here so we could make use of free will to choose whether to accept God or not. This is already quite debatable, but the point is...technically speaking, doing that operation would end our free will?
I don't think we would, since we would still be able to choose between, let's say, fixing our friend's bike or suggesting he comes to work in our car (just an example, not necessarily the best). Still a choice to take, but both options would be helpful. And if we could still make a choice in our own, that means we would still have free will...wouldn't we?
Would God consider a sin to make an operation that could interfere with our free will? If so, why would He? After all, the decision to make the surgery had been done by "us" with all our free will. With all the possible choices we could make. Furthermore, it be a choice made towars God's will, not against Him. Wouldn't the possibility of totally removing our brain's "mean side" be the ultimate leap of faith? The ultimate action to fulfill God's will by making us not even feel like doing something He wouldn't wish?!
What are your thoughts on this?