Trigger words: free will (2)
Indicator sentences: That's not really free will.
Negotiation parts: So at it's most basic, sin is disobedience to God, right? So if you remove sin from humans, you remove their capacity to disobey. Making them nothing but servants. Part of choosing is being able to choose wrong. Or god might abstain from issuing edicts, thereby removing the ability of man to sin while preserving "free will". But I anticipated this argument in the comment you're replying to: Did God violate my will by designing me in such a fashion that I cannot walk through walls or fly? If not, why not? It might indeed be my will to do those things, but God has sorely disappointed me in these respects. Has he not thwarted elements of my will then? So God might not have created us, thereby giving us free will? What? Free will doesn't mean you get whatever you want. It's not freaking omnipotence. Free will is being able to make choices and attempt to fulfill them. You wanting to fly is choice, and an exercise of free will. Being able to actually fly, however, is another matter entirely.
Trigger words: free will (2)
Indicator sentences: You can call anything you like free will. That doesn't mean it has even the slightest resemblance to what other people mean by the term. Language is a consensual process, yadda yadda etc. etc. And your use of "decision" in this context is suspect.
Negotiation parts: Light hitting your retina and travelling down the optical nerve and being processed in your visual cortex isn't your decision; it's an autonomous process that doesn't require your conscious input. So is breathing, and so are automatic thoughts. Of course, you could just redefine all biological occurences to be "decisions" and preserve a notion of free will in that way, but that would just be perverting language when we agree on the fundamentals. (or do we?)
Trigger words: decision (2)
Indicator sentences: You can call anything you like free will. That doesn't mean it has even the slightest resemblance to what other people mean by the term. Language is a consensual process, yadda yadda etc. etc. And your use of "decision" in this context is suspect.
Negotiation parts: Light hitting your retina and travelling down the optical nerve and being processed in your visual cortex isn't your decision; it's an autonomous process that doesn't require your conscious input. So is breathing, and so are automatic thoughts. Of course, you could just redefine all biological occurences to be "decisions" and preserve a notion of free will in that way, but that would just be perverting language when we agree on the fundamentals. (or do we?)