[Mad Dawg]

This is critical, I think, though I scarcely have a handle on it. Bear with me. I'm not trying to be cute (and a good thing, huh?) I just think this way of viewing the problem clarifies a LOT.

I can't answer the "If God sinned ..." because I don't think He CAN sin -- because I don't think Sin is something about which we can say "can."

For:
-- Perfect freedom seems to me to mean freedom without defect.
-- To choose evil is to manifest a defect in, um, the entire willing apparatus - that is intellect and volition and whatever else.

Feeble attempt at analogy: It is not a limitation on cleanliness to say a clean thing can't be dirty :: It is not a limitation on freedom to say the perfectly free God cannot sin.

We have to move carefully and slowly, but I think you may enjoy the possibilities here.

[Quix]

MUCH AGREE.