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11. Gennaio 2013, 01:02:19

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Argomento: Re: The prohibition was specific to a knowledge of good and evil. In other words, the prohibition against gaining this knowledge wasn't a prohibition against all other forms of knowledge.

(V): "But then free will is excluded. Blind following orders is not as it were 'being' a reflection of the image of God."

Why would He tell us not to do something, and what would happen if we did, if there was no free will? If free will was excluded, if we had no free will or potential for exercising free will, then there would have been no reason for Him to present us with a choice.

So no, free will is not excluded because it can't be excluded... it's conditional to making decisions and choosing one thing over another.

It's not blind following of orders either way, because whether or not free will was present before the choice is irrelevant. It either started to exist at the moment we made a choice, or it was always there but didn't manifest itself until the choice was made. So either way, we can't say choosing did not involve free will.

(Actually, you CAN say that, because free will allows you to say anything you want to say.)

Free will is conditional to choosing... if we didn't have free will, we would have no choice but to obey Gods rules for us. Nobody talks about inanimate matter blindly following Gods orders... because inanimate matter does not have a choice.