Questions for theists.

[tackattack]

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Angst? Get fucked, tack. And if you can't understand how creating people and their characteristics and knowing ahead of time how those characteristics will lead them to act makes you accountable for those decisions, whatever. It's pretty obvious.

As for how it interferes with free will, here. You said you prayed to God and the prayer was answered. Therefore, I am assuming that without the prayer, you believe the bonus you received would not have been forthcoming at that time (if you don't believe this, then the usefulness of the prayer was zero). So your boss had no intention to give you a bonus 'of his own free will'. God intervened and made it so that your boss did give you a bonus. Explain how that does not interfere with his free will?

By the way since you've not been around and that conversation continued, I'd be interested in your response to this: http://atheistforums.org/thread-3113-post-183442

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Apparently I had to dump my cache to see the posts, sorry for the delay.

1) It doesn't make him accountable for the decisions, period. That's assinine and in that world, you're righ,t all Christians would just blame everything on God and have no personal accountability. Perhaps you meant the consequences, which I'll conceed makes sense, while not entirely at least partially culpable. Perhaps the sum of the consequences will balance out?

2) In that example, my bosses intent is irrelevant. God may have presented him the opportunity to reward me with such timing as to concide with the answering of my prayer. God could have also answered by winning the lottery, or a check from the govt. or a donation from a friend or church. It's the frequenc of prayers being answered and the timing of the answers along with the uniqueness of the causal chain for the event that makes the prayer an answer rather than a circumstance. This is off topic though. God didn't force him to give me a bonus, he presented the opportunity and Mike took it at that time and place for his own reasons. You implied earlier that my free will was affected by the prayer was being answered. I've shown where neither of our free wills were violated, but certain opportunities were encouraged.

3) I'll go there and check it out immediately as I seem to have lots of time available tonight. I tried but the page is unavailable.