(November 8, 2017 at 9:44 am)SteveII Wrote:(November 7, 2017 at 10:40 pm)possibletarian Wrote: What is 'free will' and how do you define it and why does it entail a sinful world ?Definition of Libertarian Free Will: A personal explanation of some basic result R brought about intentionally be person P where this bringing about of R is a basic action A will cite the intention I of P that R occurred and the basic power B that P exercised to bring about R. P, I and B provide a personal explanation of R: agent P brought about R be exercising power B in order to realize intention I as an irreducible teleological goal. (Moreland, Blackwell's Companion to Natural Theology. p 298)
Was it created by your god in the full knowledge of what it would bring about.. or not ?
Sin, as the deprivation of good, becomes possible the moment someone has a choice. There is good evidence that it is impossible for any single human to choose perfectly. Ergo we have good reasons to conclude that free will entails sin (at least in humans).
Sin doesn't exist outside of religion, so there is no good reason to conclude anything about it.
"The last superstition of the human mind is the superstition that religion in itself is a good thing." - Samuel Porter Putnam
