So the possibility is open that you haven't been sinning at all! So in other words, you don't really know whether or not you have been sinning. I honestly don't know! At the time, I feel I am trying as hard as I can, but in retrospect, I am worried that maybe I didn't! Do you try as hard as you can to avoid sinning or don't you? If one wholeheartedly wills not to sin, then one won't. No, no! I keep feeling that if only I tried harder I could avoid sinning. If it is really true that you cannot resist them, then you are not sinning of your own free will and hence (at least according to me) not sinning at all. Good God! I don't know why I sin, I just do! Evil temptations come along, and try as I can, I cannot resist them. If you don't want to sin, then why do you? With free will I am capable of sinning, and I don't want to sin! What else about free will is bothering you? Will this be satisfactory?Īh, just as I thought! So moral responsibility is not the only aspect of free will to which you object. Why? I honestly can't analyze why all I know is that I do.Īll right, in that case suppose I absolve you from all moral responsibility but leave you still with free will. Why do you find moral responsibility so unbearable?
Why would you wish not to have free will?īecause free will means moral responsibility, and moral responsibility is more than I can bear! I have to have free will, whether I like it or not! I have never freely chosen to have free will. How can you call that which was forced on me a gift? I have free will, but not of my own choice. You reject the greatest gift I have given thee? And therefore, O God, I pray thee, if thou hast one ounce of mercy for this thy suffering creature, absolve me of having to have free will!
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