This means that to man God gave a degree of free will.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
One of the greatest gifts that God has given us is free will. Even though it's free, we don't take advantage of it as much as we could when it comes to matters of the heart.
Freewill means that the Universe never judges, never interferes with your own choices - and sees you as a being of equal creative power.
That free will was demonstrated in the placing of temptation before man with the command not to eat of the fruit of the tree which would give him a knowledge of good and evil, with the disturbing moral conflict to which that awareness would give rise.
God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.
Man is free whenever he produces or manifests God, and through this he becomes immortal.
A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything.
Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.
God gave us free will, and we may choose to exercise it in ways that end up hurting other people.
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.