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

I greatly appreciate you having this back and forth with me, and I sincerely apologize for taking up so much of your time last round. A few questions, and assumptions based on your comments. "God may know the future, and may be able to know with accuracy what will happen but it doesn't mean things must happen that way" one may assume you should have stated COMPLETE ACCURACYBased on your making mention of what follows"The difference would be that God would know if your plans are going to change, or if you just decide not to go and put it off until tomorrow. You are still free to make those choices, God just knows which choice you are going to make and whether you'll change them or not. "but(There are also instances in the Scriptures where God had planned to do something, but relented and didn't follow through. For instance, "after Jonah witnessed to the Ninevites, God did not follow through on their destruction due to the fact that they repented of their wickedness (Jonah 3). God, of course, knew that the Ninevites would repent when Jonah went and revealed their sinfulness to them, but had they not repented they would have been destroyed. ")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. In other wordsIt would be meaningless to say, God is not following through on my destruction due the fact I didn't do anything worthy of destruction, god knew that I wouldn't but if I did I would have been destroyed. Do you see how strange it sounds that god didn't follow through because he realized what he already knew. On to the next thingSeemingly conflicting statements"Humans are inherently moral, and rational creatures, with the ability to reason and understand the world around us. ""Children must be taught to understand morality"There seems to be a lot of leniency given to babies, and not enough to us all. It would be hard to uphold a public office with such a quote, but, it should be viewed for what it is. There are many variables in this universe in which you will find yourself without choices. That is almost the fun, what choices your current situation will allow you. I say almost the fun, because sometimes, it can be not very fun at all, but survival. There are humans that live in cannibalistic tribes, and some have been known to describe gravity, as coming up to meet the object. The point is, it becomes painfully obvious that morality is subject to individuality, and individuality is learned through whatever means of society is available. Much like every other species. Your Bank Robber Scenario"If a bank robber holds a gun to a bank teller's head and tells her to put the money in the bag, she still has a free choice. She can disobey and take a bullet to the head, or comply and give the robber his money. No jury would convict that bank teller because she acquiesced under duress. If she hadn't complied, she would have been killed. However, even though some choices have negative consequences, there is no negative consequence just by virtue of being able to choose. In fact, the basic ability to choose helps us to grow and mature. "It seems like in every example you allow a fair amount of choice, you most likely allow this to also blame for the real problem, Causation. If we could now allow my scenario for lack of choice. A hardworking Christian mother of three comes in to work after doing early prep for the Food Drive for the Homeless Charity which she will holding after another day of good Ole bank telling. Just after greeting sally she is approaching her teller station, when a sneaky middle eastern man shoots her in the back of the head. Question. What happened to our female bank tellers Free Choice there? What if it wasn't another person sinning but an earthquake destroyed the bank, killing an innocent. More on the Chicken Allergy"In your last round of the previous debate, you mentioned someone with a chicken allergy. Someone with that allergy can still choose to eat chicken if they wish, but they must be prepared to deal with the consequences. A teenager who has a habit of breaking out after eating chocolate is still free to do so. Some teenagers are willing to risk a pimple to consume chocolate. We all have choices, and some consequences are more dangerous and long-lasting than others. That doesn't mean we are not free to choose. "The issue is some teenagers can eat chocolate and not break out, some can eat chicken and not be allergic. God is all powerful and just chooses to make some people break out more often or for different reasons than others. How are we free to choose if we have no idea of the consequences and we just have to go with the limited choice that's there, and hope it doesn't kill us. People have serious medical problems all the time, and they did nothing to deserve it, and there is nothing to be learned, babies born so sick they just die. Without the burden of proof I am sure we can both agree on the fact, neurological problems are not chosen, but either hereditary, or some other cause ubiquitous to most living species on earth, such as lack of oxygen. Poor judgement is a onset symptom with a lack of oxygen, and many ways just that cause, can be caused. also say one little boy goes for the cookie jar, and seeing this, the other boy does the same, but in doing so he receives a hefty wop on the hand. I am being light example on this but then again you might say its not right to wop kids on the hand so its irrelevant, or you might say that boy deserved it because he knew or should have known the consequences. One Last ThingJust trying to understand this basic story from the info provided. "When God created Adam and Eve, he planted a tree in the Garden of Eden called the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, which He forbade them to eat from. He knew they would eat from it anyway, but He didn't force them do it. They had the free will not to eat from the tree, and didn't have to do it. God knew they would anyway. (Genesis 2-3). ""I fail to see how it is possible for a baby to pass the MCAT test, or any other test. You have to learn about the discipline before you can hope to pass a fundamental test in that discipline. "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. Also whether this should play into the model of discussion, over debate, I greatly appreciate and enjoy it all the same. I look forward to our next round!