Do people have free will to choose between right or wrong

[Cookie_Parker]

or are our choices determined by hereditary and environmental influences?

[Jack Welch]

Et la bête sera faite à légion. Ses nombres seront augmentés des mille mille fois. Le vacarme de million de claviers aiment à une grande tempête couvrira la terre, et les disciples de Mammon trembleront.

[simple]

It's very simple, you just are the way that you are.

No choice involved.

Everything is just naturally the way that it is, whether it be good or bad it did not choose to be that.

[Darius]

Do people have free will to choose between right and wrong? That depends largely on the circumstances of a given situation. We make hundreds of choices every day, but those choices have nothing to do with free will.

[Frank]

Cookie_Parker wrote:

or are our choices determined by hereditary and environmental influences?

Nature and nurture, genes and environmental conditioning.

We're free in that we're able to pick and choose from amongst the limited options that life presents, however our choices are influenced by a number of factors.

And G-d knows best.

Shalom.

[Frank]

However, I'd like to point out that one is able to over-come his or her conditioning to some degree through mental cultivation and self-discipline via meditation.

shalom