Tom Mazanec wrote:God gave man free will, because He wants to be freely loved. A robot cannot freely love. If man chooses to disobey God, that is on man.
In my theology (I always have to preface this stuff, for obvious reasons),.. All persons have always had "free will", and didn't
receive it from anywhere, as it is what makes persons PERSONS.
In other words, no person ever existed without free will.
One either believes that free will exists, or one doesn't.
The "cosmic" question is not, "Why is there free will?", but rather, "Why is there evil?"
God gives us what we need, which is the definition of Love.
..do we give God what he needs?
"What the heck does God need, that we can give him?"
The stone rolling down the hill gives God what he needs. The stone knows it's job.
"The game", within this classroom, is our job.
Do we do our job with intention, or not.
..'though, invariably, we DO do our job, because even if intentionally wrongly done, all actions move us toward inevitable beauty.