The real reason that Man, who are God's creatures, have anything one might construe as a type of freedom or autonomy is because God has allowed for it.
When Man's free will and God's free will collide, Man's free will suddenly is revealed to be a lot less free than we had imagined.
#ToChristAlone
And for our own Good, amen!
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If we have no free will, God already knows who is going to heaven and hell. So why did God bother with any of earthly creation?
We don't have zero free will.
Autonomy is a sliding scale. We are image bearers of god. We have more autonomy than all of the other beings in Crestion (the animal kingdom). And yet we are mortal beings and have a certain nature that drives us to sin. We are free to sin (rebel from God) in any way that we like.
Compared to God, no we don't have free will, obviously. But we do have the autonomy to choose and act and we are real conscious beings that God created.
