I think you're failing to grasp the concept of free will.
If there's a choice, no matter what that choice may be, that is in your control and you could go one way or the other, it's up to you - that's free will.
Even if it's only one choice, it still means humans have free will.
No. Free will is the ability to decide and take a moral action without coercion or consequence by any other moral agent. If that choice is limited by coercion or consequence by any other moral agent, it is not "free will." This was conceived and defined three hundred and fifty years before Christ.
The confusion in the mind of Christians is the fault of Augustine and Aquinas, who reached back to ancient Greek philosophy and dredged up a concept to wedge into Christian theology to counter accusations of Christianity being "deterministic."
However, they created a different meaning for "free will"--limiting it to something it never was defined. What the ancient Greeks considered "free will" is not what Christians speak of.
Now, if Christians want to use the Augustine/Aquinas definition among ourselves, okay.
But when venturing out among secular philosophers, Christians should realize we're using a "private definition."
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