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Originally Posted by Sethomas
Well, if God told the primeval Hebrews that they had no free will, how do you think their culture would have evolved? How do you tell them, "If you kill your neighbor, you go to hell. Oh, and you're not really in control of killing your neighbor."
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Wouldn't God eventually get tired of palying a chess game alone or would it just be an exercise in ego? And why would he have the need to fullfill such humanistic psychological needs? A tad anthropomorphic?
Accepting the premise, did they need to be told by an all-powerful being that they had free will? Wouldn't he simply infuse them with the innate sense that they had free will, wind them up and let them go without giving them the least notion that there was anything more outside the matrix of the sensory abilities that were known to them? Hense, they would think that they had control while having none.