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Was Adam imparted free will from the beginning of Creation?

True enough.. but if God has given you saving faith then He has also given you something to believe in which, if you don't believe those particular facts then that it would indicate you are not saved. There is much disagreement on what the 'essential facts' are. Some people don't even think one has to know of Jesus to be saved for example.
I agree completely with that, but I keep getting halted, when I want to say that one's worldview is changed at regeneration, because my own relatives lived their whole lives and died basically Wesleyan/Fundamentalist/Arminianistic/Dispensationalist/Self-deterministic in POV, yet when they prayed, they sounded Calvinistic! Still amazes me. And I am more than confident that I will see them in Heaven (If *I* even make it, lol).
 
So, why did your "autonomous will" chose to have a sin nature?
The same reason as you, me, and Lucifer, Adam, and every other angel and man that has sinned against God:

Isa 14:12How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.

Jas 1:14But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.


By choosing to lust against Him, rather than love Him with the pure heart created by Him for all angels and men.

Rev 4:11Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.

The true Creator's will is for all His creatures to please Him, and all His natural creations do so by law of nature, but the angels and men created with His autonomous will, can choose contrary to their Creator to lust and displease Him.

Deu 5:29O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!...O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!

Only a foolish and hypocritical Christ would willingly create men with lust to sin against Him, and then bemoan himself why those same men choose to lust and sin against Him.

Ezek 18:31Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?

And so, we see that the true Christ and Creator of all men in His image, does not Himself know why any man would ever concieve in ourselves to lust against Him to our own destruction. There is no sense in it, nor justification for it, but is only the lusting nature of sin.

What makes matters worse is proud and vain men thinking to answer the unanswerable for themselves. They proceed to make up damnable doctrines of their own to explain what God Himself cannot explain. Predeterminism and being born with lust against God is two lies that accuse Jesus Christ Himself of predestinating and creating angels and men to lust after themselves, rather than to please Him.

Jhn 1:8He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light. That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.

Not only is every man created in the good image of Christ, but every babe coming into the world is lightened to seek and love God and man. And yet for all this men still choose to corrupt their pure hearts created by Christ with lust of their. Which makes even less sense of the good and righteous Lord, faithful angels, and holy saints.

Scripture only reveals how angels and men by autonomous will choose the lusting nature of sin, but no man knows why, because God Himself does not.
 
Re: So, why did your "autonomous will" chose to have a sin nature?
You said you had an "autonomous will" ... "autonomous is define has "having the freedom to govern itself or control its own affairs".

Your answer:
By choosing to lust against Him, rather than love Him with the pure heart created by Him for all angels and men.
You did not answer the question. (I'm not surprised.) Choosing to lust against Him is the result of your will. I asked what was the cause of your will. Why did you chose to have a sin nature? Why did you chose to "lust against Him"? You said you have an "autonomous will" so your will is uninfluenced. Why did you chose to sin based on your uninfluenced will? What was the cause of your choice.

Aside: I know you won't answer the question as posed but I will give you one more shot.

Note: A person is created from an empty slate with no desires to do this or that so it is impossible to program your own will. Someone had to create you and your spirit (will). Nothing, which is what you were, cannot create itself.
 
Was Adam imparted free will from the beginning of Creation?
Nope:

Romans 9:19-20 (KJV) Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will? Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?

Applies to Adam as well.
 
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