(October 30, 2015 at 9:20 am)Redbeard The Pink Wrote: As for responsibility, that depends entirely on the specifiic "Christian worldview" in question. Most sects assert that Gaud is completely and perfectly omniscient, which precludes the possibility of free will because the only one with any agency in that scenario is Gaud. If Gaud already knows everything that will happen, then history is written and all choices are already irrevocably made. By creating us with full advance knowledge of our actions, Gaud sets us on a path that we are powerless to change or control, making him responsible for everything we do and everything that happens to us.
This argument is self-defeating. If our every thought and action is pre-determined by god, then we aren't persons with rights. We're just characters in a very complex novel. We don't call novelists evil for letting their characters suffer.
