Episode 18, Prayer, Free Will, and Determinism with Chris Woznicki
The Reluctant Theologian Podcast
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I Don't Want a Chocolate Ship Ice Cream, Right?
An action is spontaneous if the principle or desire comes his birth out of the person. So in the ice cream scenario, shiloh's petition was not spontaneous because it was sort of coerced upon arshilo. But in the case of prayer, remigle would want to say that our prayers, even though god implants a desire for that particular thing in us, that that desire is still spontaneous because it's coming from within me. Right? Dokez itis, italian theologian, saying like, look, if if the prayer comes from, like, from outside of you, that's bad, because then you're not really desiring it. Yeit's the idea
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