Quote:2. the idea of a world where everyone freely chooses not to do evil doesn't seem logically absurd. therefore it is possible for God to create free creatures without evil, therefore your argument is invalid.-- though this may seem like a reasonable objection, it fails to consider a few things. we aren't talking about a single variable, but a multitude of variables. if you considered a single person, you could come up with a multitude of experiences he has that allow him to choose what is good every time. however, this is just a single person experiencing things by himself. when you have a bunch of people, they often base their decisions off other people's decisions. if they see someone's choice, they may choose something different just because they want to see the outcome. so in a nutshell, it may be possible for a single person to freely choose good every time but not a large group of people yet alone the amount we have in our world. people who are able to choose differently will choose differently.
You've made a poor objection to an excellent point. We have consciences which, to a Christian, is the whispering voice of our moral core. Why did God choose to not make our conscience either much more persuasive or even impossible to ignore? It wouldn't violate free will any more or less than giving us the weaker consciences we already possess, because we already have obvious limits on our ability to exercise even the biblical idea of free will. I can't choose to hold my breath until I die, for one example.
The Christian free will argument is only an excuse for Christians to shift the blame from God to humans for all of the flaws in God's alleged creation, the same way some people blame rape victims by asserting that they are doing things that make them get raped, as if the rapist has no control over the situation.
