free will
/ˌfrē ˈwil/
noun
noun: freewill
the power of acting without the constraint of necessity or fate; the ability to act at one's own discretion.
Similar:
volition
independence
self-determination
self-sufficiency
autonomy
spontaneity
freedom
liberty
voluntarily
willingly
readily
freely
spontaneously
without reluctance
without being forced
without being asked
without being encouraged
of one's own accord
of one's own volition
of one's own choosing
by one's own preference
Opposite:
under duress
adjective
adjective: freewill
(especially of a donation) given readily; voluntary.
"free-will offerings"
1 : voluntary choice or decision I do this of my own free will. 2 : freedom of humans to make choices that are not determined by prior causes or by divine intervention.
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https://stillfaith.com/topics/free-will/ https://www.biblegateway. Joshua 24:15
King James Version
15 And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. Deuteronomy 30:15-20
King James Version
15 See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil;
16 In that I command thee this day to love the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the Lord thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
17 But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;
18 I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it.
19 I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:
20 That thou mayest love the Lord thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the Lord sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
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