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Section 3, Freedom as limited creativity, Virtual inevitability of the…

- - - - action proceeds from the nature of the agent, the nature from which it proceeds is that of the 'actual self' alive in the moment of decision. our nature is changeable and cannot be predicted (partially formed)
        
        cognitive freedom - the point at which man is willing to become aware of and form a relationship with god. God formed men through the evolutionary process but left them free
- - - - man has not fallen from god, he is contantly woring to arrive at the goal of God.
        
        alternative reading of the genesis myth - suggests that the serpent represets the moraly neutral exploration of the natural world. Evil first arose through the interaction of certain factors inherent in man's God given situation; not form the invasion of an already developed evil will from outside.
        
        Throughbthe proces of evolutiom, man's attention was primarlity directed towards seeing the world as a purley natural phenomenon and how to survive as oppsoed to focsuing on the existence of God.
        
        the fallen state of man is inevitable - through the necessity of epistemic distance and the evolution of man from lower animals,.
        
        paradox of freedom: only those who are initially agaisnt him can choose through their own volition to be for him.
        
        Despite the appearance of evil being pointless and sadistic and out of God's control; God is the only almighty force in our universe and therefire nothing he permits to exist could ever get out of his control.
        
        Cannot claim God is responsible for evil in the same way we experience responsibility as a human. Humans are responsible for their lives in the world, god is solely responsible for the existence of the world and a humans life within it.
        Example: allowing an alcoholic in an environment in which they are likely to be tempted by alcohol.