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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That's already the case with humans. There are things that a human CAN do that I would never do. The same goes for you and every other human. Are you saying I don't have free will because there are actions that I COULD do but never would? Because the same goes for evil. God could have made a world where people COULD do evil things but never chose to. Therefore the only reason to have made not only people who COULD choose evil, but also people who DO choose evil, is because he wanted some people to be punished for being made in a way that they would do things he already knew they would do and chose to make them anyways.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

We live in a world right now where people can do good things but don't, and they can also do evil things, but they don't. That's free will.

What I am saying that free will is an internal condition, it's yours. If an external force is placing hard limits and boundaries on your will, it fundamentally cannot be free. Best case, it's limited. Worst case, it's nonexistent.

The traditional definition of evil for many religions, particularly the Abrahamic ones, is anything that runs contrary to the laws/decrees of God is evil. Forced conformation to that, regardless of how it's done, cannot leave people with free will. God creates laws. God creates a law that forces compliance to his laws. By forcing me to choose to comply, there is no real choice (another paradox), and that fundamentally is not free.

I don't think that God in this case needs people to choose evil to punish them, but there are billions of people who think Hell is super real and probably want for both of us to burn there, and they'd probably disagree. I think it is an safer assumption to simply say if that people who make a choice, whether it's good or evil, are better in aggregate than people who can make no choice at all.