Is God dead?

[Preechr]

Free will is the ability to defy God's will. The apple and the tree of life were symbolic of mankind's self-determination, because the ability to defy God is the only thing that makes our existance anything other than some sort of dietal diversion. I don't personally believe the sum of our lives is unnecessary or whimsical, but the final result is predetermined even if the path to that point is mostly left up to us.

If we sometimes make decisions in line with those that God would have made for us, it's only concidental because our decisions are only ever self-serving.

The ultimate goal of free will in that it's the defiance of God is the murder of God by man, and all our actions as a species lead to that eventual conclusion. By incessantly supplanting nature with constructs of our own we are serving that goal, and most of our technological progress is leading to the eventual replacement of God's designs on every level we have so far been able to perceive with those of our own making.

The nature of civilization itself is that which was found in nature, altered to benefit man specifically. Nature is treated by us as an enemy of civilization.

This is argued with the idea that our ability to create technology was given to us to improve the world as it was created, but that implies imperfection in God's intentions which doesn't seem to square well with belief in a perfect creator.

None of this is to say we will achieve our goal. I suppose that in our efforts to destroy God we'll have to eventually find some way to perceive her, proving her existence finally, which might lead to some ultimate plot twist in our story. This is also mostly only concerning the actions of men as a group, not our individual choices, but there's a relationship there that's more than casually linked.