Genetics are not programs that determine how you behave or what you believe- genes are like little switches that when expressed, may give a range of effect. However no geneticst (last thing I've read/heard, anyway) can determine why when Gene 'a' (an example) can produce an abnormality of 'form' (say, like something 'not the right shape' and in others, the same gene will not make any difference, or cause some other type of effect.
So genes only predispose us to certain characteristics, but whether we develop them or not is dependent on things that may or may not be predetermined in any way.
Sorry if this sounds politically incorrect but if you have a gene in your gentics before your born that would make you black. It does not mean i am going to be black it means i could be black?
How come then almost every child who has a black mother and farther ends up been black because of the gene
just an example sorry if anybody takes any words as politically incorrect there used only as an example.
Of course culture will determine a great part of our beliefs, because the culture will already give us whatever God they believe in. That's why most christians were already born into a christian society, muslims in a muslim society, and every other religion will be mostly culturally influenced. The way we see God also changes according to what we learn and come to believe in terms of science and culture.
The thing is, that your view of God changing (IMO, this is healthy) doesn't mean that God changes, it just means that the problem of 'understanding the concept of God' changes.
My mother and farther were christian my gran parents were nuns and other religous figures.
I had no spiritualism influences in my familly or life except from odd experiences i had as a child.
If i questioned christianity i would get wrong and scorned at yet i have grown up to be spiritualist
so how come i aint catholic or christian when my social background says i should be lol?
does thyis mean social influences dont play a major role because if they did i would be the same reluigoin as the people around me lol?
I understand what you mean y the changing concept.....
A man reads the bible or is taught to believe in god as a manifestation of a man in the clouds who judges us for our sins..................that is his first personal experience of the concept of understanding god....
a man then starts to realise that god does not judge us but we judge ourselfs and that god may not be a manifestation but an energy that lies in all atoms of all shapes and forms and animations..... his second experience of the understanding of god and the progress of his understanding of god. God has not changed just The mans realisations
Now man realises that there is no wrong only right and so he cant be judged at all but just realise why he done it he realises that god is not an energy lying in everything but god is everything and nothing is outside of gods and that god has never been apart from him and journeyed with him all the way
the next step of understanding
You need to sober up to read this question again, and to read my answer, because I don't think you can separate God from anything, much less than our genes.
If I am God's expression, God chose to experience the world as a person with my genetic characteristics, in my cultural environment. So whatever chemicals drive my emotions are not an accident, it was simply the way God chose to experience the world as me, and as you, and as everyone else.
Ha ha i understood it when i was drunk but was to drunk to write a constructive answer lol
This goes back to our conversation on the topic of experience and why we experience when we talked about hitler.
So basically
I want to experience....... (cft i ll miss out the middle bit for sake of relevance haha) I then exist in a certain time and location......... God as me chooses to be born in a specific body mabye with a specific disabillity or talent, back ground or influences, toa certain mother or farther that effect my genes in certain ways. so that when i am born god may want me to be born with 1 arms or some learning disabillity or some talent so that it influences the way i experience
The good news is that you get to choose. What kind of world do you prefer to live in, one which gives you free will (or the right to choose a behavior) or one which decides what belief you want to embrace and which one you prefer to reject- and the right to change your mind.
I don't think 'free will' is about controlling every circumstance you encounter- I think free will is about how you want to react to whatever comes up. And frankly, I think that's what it's all about.
Is there determinism? Sure, as much as there isn't.
I am not sure about determinism i think that if one day we come across a man in the street and decide to help him its because there are certain conditions met to determin how we should act but if the scenario comes up again there might be tiny diffrences in the conditions and controls so that we act diffrent but think that it was free will how we acted because the changes where to tiny for us to pin point.
am not saying thats how it but thats how it could be. we could belive in free will when its an illusion
If its unclear what am trying to say let me know and i ll give you more information and explain more.
but i do belive its true what you say about free will its not about controlling our life its about controlling factors in our life
take care
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