The existence of free will as proposed by the bible (Cont.debate)

I would like to welcome Con back to the debate and am grateful he did not simply give it up."one may assume you should have stated COMPLETE ACCURACY'Yes, that should really go without saying as the word accuracy, itself, means without error."in this example; god is seemingly always relenting from enforcing punishments IN EVERY INSTANCE that a fork in the road may lead to a destructive or constructive path, in your view god is relenting punishment for all of us, all the time."Not every time. After all, Sodom and Gomorrah did not repent of their wickedness and they were destroyed for it. God's mercy and grace is always available, but only if you receive it and change your wicked ways.As I have stated, God does not force anyone to do anything. If you haven't repented, He's not going to forgive you. If He knows it's going to happen, the effects don't happen until the cause happens. For instance, God knows how long we're going to live. He also knows if we're going to repent or not. Now say you get hit by a car and die early on in life. God would know if you would have repented had you been hit by the car, but since you got hit by the car before you repented you would not be saved. This is why Christians urge people not to wait because you don't know how long you have until you die.There is nothing conflicting in my statements. Humans have the inherent ability to reason within ourselves, but we still must be taught right from wrong. That's why we have parents.I fail to see how your examples of cannibalistic societies and those with a different understanding of gravity are relevant to the existence of free will. This isn't about morality, this is about free choice. No matter what your morality, you still have choices you can make. Even if you have differing opinions of what is good or not, you still have the same choice I do. If I believe A is right and you believe B is right, I might choose A and you might choose B because we both consider ourselves to be moral people. However, no one is perfect -- I might occasionally choose B and you might occasionally choose A because we don't particularly feel like abiding by our morals that day.I'm not sure what you mean by Causation. If something causes me to act a certain way, I could still act the opposite if I so chose. For instance, if someone is annoying me I could yell and them to be quiet, as anyone might be inclined to do in that situation. But I could also choose to ignore it, or even stand up and go someplace else.There may be certain situations in which we don't have a choice, but that's because someone takes our choice away from us. The man who shot her in the back of the head took away her choice to continue living. He did have the choice of whether to shoot her, to give her demands, or to not try and rob the bank. She was still a free person, just like the rest of us. Same with the earthquake. A natural disaster took her choice away. It wouldn't be accurate to say she never had free will just because her choice was taken away in one situation.You're misconstruing Christian theology. God doesn't make anyone break out with pimples or gives them food allergies. These things are a result of the fall, when Adam and Eve originally sinned. There may be situations in which we don't have a choice, but that doesn't take away from our free will. Sometimes there is no choice to make, or no good choice, but we are forced into the situation. Our choice in the matter is taken away from us.With the example about the cookie jar, you are actually helping to make my case. The boy had a choice of whether to go for the cookie or not. It is irrelevant if one boy was punished and the other not. They both made the decision to take a cookie against their parents' wishes. One was punished because he was caught doing it."I don't think Adam and Eve learned about the discipline of resistance, but not a fundamental test, a full on, getting serious test. It seems like if you are going to gamble punishment for the entire species then maybe it would have been a good idea for god to take your test taking advice."You confused me with this paragraph here. Could you please explain what you mean?I look forward to our final round.