Q: Is there such a thing as genuine free will, or, are all our lives pre-determined?

M: There is genuine and pre-determined free will. Genuine free will is when you’re really free. After enlightenment, you can use your free will better. Before enlightenment, we can only bow to fate and destiny. Sometimes our strong will wakes up in an emergency situation, and we turn things around. But rarely do people have such a strong will. Therefore, free will is that God lets you do what you want, but then you create the bad consequence. As the Bible says, “As you sow, so shall you reap.”

So if we use our free will in indiscriminate ways, we do all kinds of bad things. And when the bad consequences come to us, at that time there’s no more free will, because we have to bow under the burden of the consequence of “As you sow, so shall you reap.” So there is free will, but we have to know how to use it wisely. When we are enlightened, we know how to use free will better because we can see what is right and what’s wrong. Or God teaches us silently, and we intuitively know what is right or what’s wrong to do. Before that, most of us bow to destiny.

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