HUM 411 San Diego State University Free Will and Humanity Discussion

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1) A questions popped up that I didn't answer, and one question in particular resonated with me. It went something like this (I'm paraphrasing): "Aren't Adam and Eve's actions in the Garden a product of God granting humanity free will to choose to do good or evil?" This is an important question. I want you all to think about it. And then I want you to think about another question that arises if we take the idea of free will as an adequate explanation for the events in Genesis 3: Why would Adam and Eve, made/created explicitly *good* by God, make a choice that is deemed not so 'good' by their creator?"

2) My lecture charted a pretty grim trajectory for humanity: ignorance propelled by desire in the Garden which leads to knowledge but also expulsion, sin/murder as a consequence of the attainment of the knowledge of good and evil, and ultimately universal evil which marks humanity en masse leading to a cataclysmic flood. My focus was, of course, evil. But when Adam and Eve eat from "The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil" they also, obviously, acquire knowledge about *good*. Look back over the first 6 chapters of Genesis. Do you see any evidence of good in humanity? Can you paint a somewhat different (rosier?) picture than mine?

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The free will granted to humanity demonstrates God's glory, mercy, and love, among other
attributes. Substantially, Adam and Eve's action ...


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