"Free will was given to man by god." This I often hear from theists. I searched the bible and found no support for this from the word of the supposed god.
So this is inference? Or did I miss something.
Will Guffo or somebody else please tell me where the idea of "free will" emerged in christian thinking, and what Christians use as explanation to it in the bible?
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It is by way of
inference, but that is part of the "test" so-to-speak.
Consider the tautology:
-Admonishment of Genesis 3:12 RE: eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
-Adam is holding an apple (with a niiice big bite out of it) which came from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
-God asks Adam a simple question: did you eat from the tree I told you not to eat from?
It's a simple yes or no question.
"Free will" entails accounting for one's own actions. In the case of original sin, Adam did not.
"It's the woman that thou hast given me!"
One finger points at Eve.
One finger points at God.
Blame in both hands.
Religion of Adam: to
BELIEVE one's own nature is owing to another.
This inference solves for the property of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil: BELIEF.
In the same way it takes a believer to believe evil is good,
it takes a believer to believe their own nature is owing to someone else.
"Yes" was (is) the correct answer, as it would take a believer to believe
otherwise.
Thus, all eaters of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil are
believers.
See: Islam and their attesting to being the "original religion of Adam".
Indeed - the religion of man:
blame in both hands.
"It's the Jews!
It's the Christians!
It's the atheists!
It's the unbelievers!
It's the infidels!"
etc.
...it's the
religion of man: Islam.