on free will

Explain and critically examine our understanding of free will
thoughts by Augustine

the choice we make between eternal and temporal realms- is a free choice
God has known, knows, and always will know what we decide
God sees the whole thing/creation/all of eternity in an instant
God makes us moral, valuable agents so we can experience good
God cannot tilt our decisions, we have pure will
knowledge (God's omniscience) vs causation

free will assumes:
God gave us free will and there is a God
that God gave us free will for a good purpose
all good things come from God
we have our existance from God

problem free will solves:
evil- is the misuse of free will

problems it creates:
is God responsible for evil? what is evil? (page 68)
is having a choice really being free?
What about Pharoah and how God hardened his heart?
God has a plan for you?

without free will, we wouldn't sin
God didn't give us free will to sin but to do right (pg 30)
we have just chosen sin.
"we ought not to have been able to pervert it"

freewill
:is a good thing ebcause no one can live rightly without it (pg 69)
:given to us by God, who acted rightly in giving it to us (pg 70)
:cannot be forced into iniquity

evil
:turning away from God is a sin
:deserting unchangable good and turn toward changable
:God is not responsible
:need evil to have good

God
:every good thing comes from God
:God acted rightly in giving us free will
:if God knows evil will happen, but God is all good and powerful, why doesnt he do something?
:has foreknowledge
:justice: punishes for sin
:mercy: redeems
:goodness created us