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\n·Language &Culture  \n·Law  \n·Yoga  \n·Life Sciences  \nPlus Much More!  \nWe kindly invite you to view our catalog list at:  \nhttp://www.kessinger.net  \nTHIS ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK:  \nTrue Christian Religion A Digest  \nBY THIS AUTHOR:  \nEmanuel Swedenborg  \nISBN 0766128806  \nREAD MORE ABOUT THE BOOK AT OUR WEB SITE:  \nhttp://www.kessinger.net  \nOR ORDER THE COMPLETEBOOK FROM YOUR FAVORITE STORE  \nISBN 0766128806  \nBecause this article has been extracted from a parentbook,it may have non-pertinent text at the beginning orend of it.  \n# FREEDOM OF CHOICE\n\nTN ALL things relating to his body man reveals a closeI relationship to the brute creation.Naturalists class himin the mammalia,and put him at the head of the primates.They tell us that he has a more erect posture,and a morehighly evolved brain than the anthropoid apes.His faceis set at a more perpendicular angle in relation to the body;but physically there is no great gulf between man and theother primates.He belongs to the same natural order.The same number of bones compose his skeleton.Thesame muscles,the same viscera are in his body,and eventhe same natural senses enable him to respond to hisenvironment.  \nWe can grant these claims of the man of science;butthere are two characteristics in which man differs fromall other earthly creatures.He possesses freedom of thewill and rationality of intellect.He is the only creaturethat can submit himself to self-examination.He is theonly creature that can persistently deny his own appetitesand impulses;the only creature that can simultaneouslylove one thing,think of another thing,and then act inopposition to his first love and his initial thought.In aword,man has free will—freedom of choice in mental andspiritual things.  \nSwedenborg devotes a whole chapter of The True Chris-tian Religion to a discussion of the imperative necessity offreedom of choice and its value to man as a spiritual being.It is the ability to choose between two courses of action,and especially the ability to choose between right and  \nwrong,between the true and the false,that separates manfrom the whole brute creation.It is this freedom of choicethat enables him to consciously respond to God and thatmakes it possible for him to attain to angelhood.In thisrespect,between man and the brute creation there is agreat gulf fixed.  \nThis subject of man's freewill has been a perennial sub-ject of debate for many centuries.There is a school ofthought that denies the possession of freedom in the humanmind.It says that man is a creature of heredity andenvironment.His motives,say the advocates of deter-minism,are the result of outside pressure acting uponinherited desire.Man will always follow the strongestmotive,and that motive is decided,not by his own will,but by the pressure of circumstances acting on hereditaryinclination.  \nPushed to its logical conclusion this belief takes awayfrom man all responsibility for his actions.It 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