But why would you think that? And do you have an argument for such a claim?
Let's do a quick rough sketch.
God can do anything logically possible
Having free will and having zero desire to do evil are not mutually exclusive properties
God can create a being with free will and with zero desire to do evil
A being with zero desire to do evil is better than a being that has a non-zero desire to do evil
God chose to create an inferior product.
It seems to me that your line of argument in post #445 and elsewhere depends on the idea that those with free will will necessarily sin (i.e. sin is a necessary consequence of free will). That's just to say that those with free will are not free to not-sin, or more simply: those with free will are not free. Hence the contradiction arises,
That's Christian doctrine, no? Every single human will do evil. *God, who does not have free will when it comes to good and evil choices, will never do evil because of a lack of free will in that regard. It seems free will is a built in flaw since the perfect being lacks it. So the only being we know of that won't do evil doesn't have free will, and every being we know of that does have free will
will do evil, it seems that free will leads to evil doing by necessity, no?
* I'm taking this license from our previous discussions. For the sake of brevity, whenever I refer to "free will" I'm only talking about the ability to choose between good and evil acts. Having a free will to choose between hamburgers and hotdogs is inconsequential and irrelevant, so I'm not going to keep typing "with regards to good and evil choices" o'er and o'er, k?
Once we accept free will what I said in
#450 follows naturally. Free will means that one's actions flow from oneself, and are contingent. Thus once God grants a creature free will the creature itself is responsible for its actions, not God, and the actions do not come about by way of necessity.
Just to be clear, my angle here isn't related to my doubts about free will being real. What I see is a tangled web of contradictions where Christians have painted themselves into a corner using free will as an excuse for the existence of suffering.