Did god give us free will?

Did god give us free will?

I can't will myself to fly through the cosmos at a trillion times the speed of light exploring other galaxies. I can't teleport to heaven and have a conversation with god. I can't even teleport to Tel Aviv. Surely god could do all of these things with no effort and he created us in his image. So why did he limit us so severely?

Why can't I will my hair to stop growing so I don't have to spend 40 bucks on a haircut every month?
Why can't I will my hearing to disable when a song I don't like is playing? Better yet, why can't I will it so that song is now my favorite song of all time and enjoy it?
Why can't I will myself to think 10x faster than I currently do? Why not 1000x or a googolx?
Or any number of countless things that I can't will to happen.

People use free will to explain bad things that happen to others. A man was killed because another man used his free will to do evil. But when a man has a heart attack and dies, nobody says he didn't use his free will to correct his heart problem and continue living.

God could alter the system right now so that those who would choose to do harm would instead immediately die from a heart attack. But he refuses to do this. Why? He allows the power of one's will to supersede the power of another's will.

It seems to me like what we have is, at best, incredibly limited will. The most egregious limitation though, if god exists, is that he didn't even give us the will to choose whether or not to be a part of his silly game.

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28 January 2025 at 09:37 PM
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