The Role of Believing in God in Human Freewill and Moral Responsibility

Theistic or atheistic beliefs, has fundamental role in defining human's free will and moral responsibility, so far as, it can determine the nature, quality and quantity of human's freedom. After believing in God, maintaining to revealed or non-revealed religions and the way of human's interpretation of God's attributes has essential role in definition of free will. In fact, the kind of our understanding of some God's attributes, like knowledge, power, will, creation and sovereignty, and His relation to human, can show the quality and quantity of human's free will. In revealed religions, God is introduced as the personal and all power God who is the real creator of humans, and they are His creatures, servants and vicegerents so that human's free will and moral responsibility is defined in the light such theistic viewpoint.