James Madison
Senior Member
To the contrary, what you’ve espoused does inhibit free will. A God creating an intervening causal act that physically prohibits or precludes some act by a person is not consistent with free will. This is tantamount to saying a person has the freedom to floor the car to go 180mph despite a governor pls ex on the car by the manufacturer that shuts it down at 100mph. The person doesn’t have the freedom to do 180mph in the car.
God cannot create people with free will and then, consistent with free will, build in your “safety” points that physically make it impossible for a person to freely do something.
If god can't give us freewill in a goodworld, then, by the same logic, he can't give us freewill in a badworld either.
Before he created, he knew every choice that would be made, in this world and every other. If you don't count our choices as free in the worlds where we always choose good, then you can't -- for exactly the same reason -- count them as free in the worlds where we don't.
If you do consider our choices to be free in this world, then, to be logically consistent, you must consider them to be free in other worlds too.
There are possible worlds in which we have free will but do not sin. We always freely choose the good. God knew which worlds those are, and he could have chosen one of them.
Yes, there are possible worlds “in which we have free will but do not sin,” but those worlds cannot be actualized. It is possible it was not within God’s power to create a world containing righteousness but no evil.