First of all, I did not expect a detailed reply to my jokey comment. However, I appreciate it.
That evil is a choice.
This is the thing. From what I have read in the Bible, this is the thing. We all have a choice.
I really don't like the view that people do evil because of demon possession, or something that denies human agency. That absolves individuals of their guilt and casts them as meat puppets in a play put on by powers to which they cannot help but to submit.
In my understanding of Christianity, the whole point is that we are free to choose, so there is no out with "the Devil made me do it," there is only the choice you have made, for which you are responsible.
I really don't like the view that people do evil because of demon possession, or something that denies human agency. That absolves individuals of their guilt and casts them as meat puppets in a play put on by powers to which they cannot help but to submit.
yeah, it's a bit of mysticism to explain the emotional pull of doing things that are going to get you into trouble.
First of all, I did not expect a detailed reply to my jokey comment. However, I appreciate it.
This is the thing. From what I have read in the Bible, this is the thing. We all have a choice.
I really don't like the view that people do evil because of demon possession, or something that denies human agency. That absolves individuals of their guilt and casts them as meat puppets in a play put on by powers to which they cannot help but to submit.
In my understanding of Christianity, the whole point is that we are free to choose, so there is no out with "the Devil made me do it," there is only the choice you have made, for which you are responsible.
yeah, it's a bit of mysticism to explain the emotional pull of doing things that are going to get you into trouble.
I think you are correct about free will, though.