Response to part 3 of 3 from that link:
I’ll be sure to tell that to the monkeys when i repay the behaving ones with a banana. And the misbehaving ones - no banana.
Surely their darkened minds will understand my divine pronouncement merely by an act of their freewill choice.
1 Cor.2:14 The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.
It seems the apostle Paul may have already met this type of objection about 2000 years ago:
Rom.9:19 One of you will say to me: “Then why does God still blame us? For who is able to resist his will?” 20 But who are you, a human being, to talk back to God? “Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, ‘Why did you make me like this?’ ” 21 Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for special purposes and some for common use?
The human body & universe are certainly “wonderfully made”. That doesn’t deny the depravity of soul through the fall.
God didn’t create Adam depraved. Though He didn’t make him incorruptible either. Neither was he made with a knowledge of good and evil.
God loosed Satan on Adam & Eve & foreknew they would fall. This was all part of His predetermined plan. Why would He do this, you ask?
Discover the answer to why Love Omnipotent lets evil run free & you’ll know.
Adam & Eve were ridiculously far from being created perfect. And soon after things went even further downhill.
With all the billions of free choosers there have been, how is it that only Jesus didn’t choose sin? What are the odds of that?
How many even made it to 5 or 10 years old without choosing sin? If this free will thing existed among billions, shouldn’t there be
some others who resisted sin?
For God has bound everyone over to disobedience so that he may have mercy on them all. (Rom.11:32)
Rom.8:20 For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it, in hope 21 that the creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God.
Punishment is compassionate correction for the good of the offender. Those I love, I rebuke and discipline. (Rev.3:19a)
Without the experience of evil, Adam & Eve were entirely clueless & without appreciation or praise to God re all the good they had.
Neither could they ever, for all eternity, know about things such as mercy, love, sacrifice, etc.
If free will is so important, why would God only give it for the brief span of this life & then take it away for all of eternity?
Will He allow us the free will in heaven to rebel like in the story of the angels who followed Lucifer? Or make us like robots for eternity?
With free will, what if people reject God & suffer hell for millions of years?
The law has nothing to do with free will. It was a ministration of death, of the letter that killeth:
2 Cor.3:6 And He has qualified us as ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
7 Now if the ministry of death, which was engraved in letters on stone
Jn.6:63 The Spirit gives life; the flesh profits nothing…
Rom.2:29 …circumcision is a matter of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the written code. Such a man’s praise does not come from men, but from God.
Acts 15:10 Now then, why do you test God by placing on the necks of the disciples a yoke that neither we nor our fathers have been able to bear? 11 On the contrary, we believe it is through the grace of the Lord Jesus that we are saved…
Dream on.
gotquestions.org/total-depravity.html
the-highway.com/depravity_Boettner.html