(April 16, 2014 at 4:18 pm)Coffee Jesus Wrote: An omnipotent being could restrict our choices in any way it wants. If there really was a "fall from grace", it's because the omnipotent being gave us the choice to fall from grace.
It's more than just giving us a choice. God put all the pieces into place to ensure that the wrong choice would screw everything up, and he did it intentionally, with foreknowledge that things would turn out the way they did.
If we are designed beings (or, even if we aren't), we didn't get any say in how human nature works. We have limited capacity to behave against our nature. We have no ability to alter it fundamentally.
If we are filthy, degenerate sinners, it can only be because an omnipotent and omniscient God intentionally designed us to be. Yet, it's our fault somehow.
