There is a real problem with that idea of no free will, it is in conflict with Gods Word, as how do you explain Adams sin? Did Adam do it from free will, or did God force Adam to sin? And Scripture clearly points it out..
Romans 5:12
12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
13 (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.
15 But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.
16 And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences unto justification.
17 For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)
18 Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.
19 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.
There is only ONE God.
There is NONE like Him.
He gives His glory (of which holiness and righteous are His glory) to NO ONE.
Several things: First, God created Adam and the woman sinful, that is, as the Greek word "harmatia" is defined as "missing the mark."
What is the "mark?" The glory of God. Or the glory that
is God.
That's the only way God could create man. They were fallen short of the glory of God and
that is also sin. We know that sin comes from sinner. Adam sinned. It was because he was a sinner created sinful.
Adam was not created 'holy' or 'righteous' for these are attributes of God and God does not share, copy, duplicate His glory to anyone.
Adam sinned because he was a sinner. The Law is in place to show all mankind that we are sinners. If there are people that spit on the ground (and there are) but there's no law against it then they are not lawbreakers if and when they spit. This was the explanation of Paul in Romans (as well as in the Old Testament), but this is what Paul said:
7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. Rom. 7:7.
If there was no law against coveting and Paul lusted for something he is not a lawbreaker. But since there is a law against coveting then such existence of this law shows Paul and everyone that lusting for something, or someone is sin. Many Christians understand this, but they ignore this one little fact. There was a law/command in the Garden of Eden:
17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,
thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. Gen. 2:17.
Taking what Paul said about coveting is applicable to Adam and the woman in the Garden. It would sound like this if Adam was doing the talking:
ADAM: "What shall we say then? Is the law/command sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law/command: for I had not known disobedience, except the law/command had said, Thou shalt not eat [of it.]"
And Paul goes on in Romans: (read carefully.)
8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.
9 For I was alive without the law once:
but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
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And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.
11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.
12 Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
13 Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid.
But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful. Rom. 7:8–13.
Since there is only ONE God the idea that Adam was created 'holy' or 'righteous' falls short if he were to stand before God and that's what it was. There is only ONE Person that can stand before a Holy God and that is a Holy Son. IF Adam was created holy he would not sin, for one, and for two, Adam by necessity would have to possess ALL the Nature and Deific Attributes of God and
be god in order to stand before the One True God on his own. But Adam was not holy, he was not righteous, he was not All-Wise, nor Omnipotent, nor Omnipresent, nor Omniscient. Thus, he was less, very less than God and this means he was fallen short of the glory of God and that means sin and sinful. Plus, the fact that he sinned shows that he was a sinner for sin does not come from holy. The last Adam proved this.
13 As saith the proverb of the ancients, Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked: 1 Sam. 24:13.
Who's to say this ancient proverb did not come from the Garden of Eden and developed when Adam passed on his story to his children?
We sin because we are sinner. We are not sinners because we sin.
Take a closer read on Romans 5:12-19 with these things in mind. In verse 12 Paul does not mention any sinful act. He merely says that by one man sin entered into the world. That one man was Adam who was created sinful/sinner/sin. The existence of a law shows us that we are lawbreakers of that law else there would be no law or command against it. But this is more than spitting on the ground. For before the Law sin was in the world. And that sin was Adam.
Paul adds:
13 (For until the law sin was in the world:
but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses,
even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.
