GreatestIam
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Honest men can have honest differences of opinions without needing to call the opinions of others childish. If your opinions were objective you wouldn't be threatened by the opinions of others and need to call them childish. You indict yourself through your own words.I see that as a lie as I do not see freedom of choice in your childish way.
You have free will. Feel free to blame God for anything you choose. But it is a sign of an external locus of control.Christians are always trying to absolve God of moral culpability in the fall by whipping out their favorite "free will!", or “ it’s all man’s fault”.
Not my interpretation. That is yours. Mine is that everything God made is good and we have a choice to be good or devoid of good. Blaming others for your mistakes is a failed behavior which will naturally lead to failure.That is "God gave us free will and it was our free willed choices that caused our fall. Hence God is not blameworthy."
Again, everything God made is good and we have a choice to be good or devoid of good. Blaming others for your mistakes is a failed behavior which will naturally lead to failure.But this simply avoids God's culpability as the author of Human Nature. Free will is only the ability to choose. It is not an explanation why anyone would want to choose "A" or "B" (bad or good action). An explanation for why Eve would even have the nature of "being vulnerable to being easily swayed by a serpent" and "desiring to eat a forbidden fruit" must lie in the nature God gave Eve in the first place. Hence God is culpable for deliberately making humans with a nature-inclined-to-fall, and "free will" means nothing as a response to this problem.
False. They also do good. So sin nature is not necessarily dominant. There is a distribution and when the distribution is evaluated, man is overwhelmingly good.If all sin by nature then, the sin nature is dominant. If not, we would have at least some who would not sin. That being the case, for God to punish us for following the instincts and natures he put in us would be quite wrong.
God doesn't punish us. How does God punish us?
I agree that man has a lot more good in him than evil.
That fact does not negate that he also must do evil as he evolves.
You must both cooperate and compete as you evolve and competition is the only source of what the losers to those competitions will see as evil.
Regards
DL