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SOVEREIGNTY, FREEWILL AND SALVATION PROF. M. M. NINAN The above diagram presents the various possibilities depending on whether physical determinism is true or false along side of freewill possibility. In the hard core absolute physical determinism alone hard determinism possible without any possibility of freewill. With the development of Quantum Theory the concept of hard determinism has been over ruled even in the physical world. Quantum mechanics leaves enough space of uncertainity to allow for freewill even within the material realm. Any of the possible states can be thee final state depending on when the observation takes place. This is known as collapse of the Wave function of the Universe. .Thus we are left with the probabilistic possibility of future with large number of possible worlds. Heisenberg uncertainity principles are built in laws of the world of existence which automatically makes hard determinism impossible.The von Neumann–Wigner interpretation, described as "consciousness causes collapse [of the wave function]", is an interpretation of quantum mechanics in which consciousness is postulated to be necessary for the completion of the process of quantum measurement See my book on Quantum Theology 149
SOVEREIGNTY, FREEWILL AND SALVATION PROF. M. M. NINAN However man is not material alone. Matter forms the body. But the life is through the Spirit of God that was breathed into the earth body by God in the creation. While there are varying forms of life they are not of the same nature. There are vegetations, birds, fishes, beasts etc. They all have various forms of life which indicates their existence in dimensions other than matter. Man alone was created in the image of God with the breath of God itself - a little lower than God Himself - existing in all the dimensions of cosmos entering the world of Divine realm itself. Thus whatever predetermination is possible at other realms, man’s freedom is similar to that of God. This is the sonship of man. Freedom of the will is a consequence of intelligence, and as such the most precious gift of man, an endowment which he can never lose without annihilating his own nature. Man must of necessity be free in every state of life, actual or possible, whether that state be the purely natural (status purœ naturœ), or the state of original justice in paradise (status justitiœ originalis), or the state of fallen nature (status naturœ lapsœ), or the state of regeneration (status naturœ reparatœ). Were man to be deprived of freedom of will, he would necessarily degenerate in his nature and sink to the level of the animal. Since the purely natural state, devoid of supernatural grace and lacking a supernatural justice, never existed, and since the state of original justice has not been re-established by Christ's Redemption, man's present state alone is to be taken into consideration in solving the problem of the relation between grace and free will. In spite of the so called original sin and concupiscence man is still free, not only with reference to ethical good and evil in his natural actions, but also in his supernatural salutary works in which Divine grace co-operates with his will. 150
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