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Classical Free Will Analysis

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The strategy of classical free will appeal is to shift responsibility for evil off divine shoulders on to human’s shoulders. An appeal that Marilyn McCord Adams thinks does not work. She states that the appeal to free will to explain the origin of evil fails based on two reasons. The first objection she called the Size Gap. God is the one responsible for the evil in this world since he created the world. If a baby touches a hot stove the infant is the one to blame because it was his initiative to touch the stove. However, the blame or responsibility falls on the parents for not taking care of the child. The adults are further aware of the result then the infant. So God is the intervening agents who stand between Adam’s story and dreadful evil. …show more content…

Humanity can’t fully realize how bad they are or what it is that is so bad about them without experiencing or being able imaginatively to represent what they’re like to us. In other words, is not relevant knowledge when we only know about evil but haven’t felt it or experience it. In comparison to Eden there were no evil. So Adam and Eve according to the traditional story did not have the relevant experience that would have given them the kind of full-body knowledge that would have permitted them to be fully responsible for what they did. Therefore, her conclusion is that classical appeals to free will to solve the problem of evil are not effective without further supplementation. Due to the fact that human agents even if they are free are not tough enough to stand in between God and the consequences of God’s creative choice.
According to the word of God and to my knowledge when God created Adam and Eve he made them in His image and likeness. Adam and Eve possessed a natural likeness with God. They were created as personal beings with spirit, mind, emotions, and awareness of oneself and the ability to choice. When Adam and Eve sinned the image of God was seriously altered but was not destroyed at all. There is no doubt that moral likeness was altered with God when they sinned, in a since that they were not perfect nor saints, but they now had a tendency toward sin which was passed on to their

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