God has given all of us free will. He allows us to exercise this free will, whether we use it for good or evil. Once Adam and Eve ate of the forbidden fruit, then it was all bets off. If the writer is so concerned about evil-doing in the world, then why not ask about the slaughter of millions of little ones in the womb year after year? That’s an evil that seems to have gone on the back burner.
The dead-soul writer doesn’t consider the slaughter of so many alive unborn children as ‘evil’. Satan has given them another word to cling to as they rationalize their complicity with evil ... they call it choice, not evil.
“God has given all of us free will. He allows us to exercise this free will, whether we use it for good or evil. “
John 8:34 - “Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who commits sin is a slave to sin.”
Does a slave have free will?
Ephesians 2:1-3 - “And you were DEAD in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience — among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the bodya and the mind, and were BY NATURE children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. “
What can a dead man do for himself? How does a person who is by nature a child of wrath change his nature?
Jeremiah 13:23 - “Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his spots? Then also you can do good who are accustomed to do evil.”