Previous thread: >>545211318Most responses blamed free will for evil. That only works if people have the kind of will that lets them choose against their evil nature. They do not.The will exists but it is not truly free. You make choices. Your will moves. But the choice is not a libertarian decision independent of your nature. On the contrary, choice comes from what you are. You do what you want because what you want was predetermined. What you want is fixed by your nature. You do not stand outside your nature and pick a different choice. Free will is not actually free. This error is called libertarian free will in philosophy and most of modern Christianity believes it today. What we actually have is a will bound to our nature.I'll summarize the pic: No one seeks God. No one does good. No one comes to the light. We cannot comprehend the light. We cannot discern or receive spiritual things. These are all absolute statements about the nature of fallen man apart from God's intervention. That's us. Question for the Christian: Is man free to come to the light or seek God apart from God? Can man do it alone? How can you say man has free will when God has clearly limited it? Is man free to contradict God and do contrary to what these verses say?Look around you at the average NPC. Can you look at them and tell me they have the freedom to choose otherwise? Try convincing them. Try reasoning with them. You can't. They cannot choose. They have no free will to choose against their programming and against their nature.Genetics confirms the same reality. You're predetermined both physically and spiritually (Eph. 2:3).The free-will theodicy requires what the Bible denies: that people could have chosen otherwise even with the same nature. They cannot. Adam failed. Fallen man is set. The will is bound. Evil is not the result of unconstrained choice.So the most common answer blaming free will is useless and false.What is the actual answer to the problem of evil?
ai slop, not reading that
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>>545230741>Look around you at the average NPC. Can you look at them and tell me they have the freedom to choose otherwise? >Try convincing them. Try reasoning with them.If it was really that straightforward then necessarily they’d be bound to my will not their own.
