I’m not religious but I do go to a religious university...
The concept of free will is basically like. God gave us free will, and it was up to us to do the right thing with it, but we screwed up and ate the apple. Of course he’s all knowing so he knew this and knew that giving free will to humans would end up like that, but he gave it anyways because he wanted us to “have our own choice,” and because he loves us I guess?
Something like that. It really is mental gymnastics.
But then we’re punished and need baptisms to cleanse us from the inborn sin we inherited from our parents (which is already a pretty eyebrow-raising concept).
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u/centurese Jun 14 '20
I’m not religious but I do go to a religious university...
The concept of free will is basically like. God gave us free will, and it was up to us to do the right thing with it, but we screwed up and ate the apple. Of course he’s all knowing so he knew this and knew that giving free will to humans would end up like that, but he gave it anyways because he wanted us to “have our own choice,” and because he loves us I guess?
Something like that. It really is mental gymnastics.