Thanks u/Plemethrock
We can have a discussion on whether or not free will exists. Discuss if every action we do is already predetermined by how our brain is wired, with the environment around us being the inputs.
We can also have a discussion on whether or not humans have souls and analyze the evidence for and against us just being our bodies
(I made an error and had to repost, apologies)
I'll try to keep points brief and edit as needed.
To nihilists, nothing exists, but nobody likes nihilism.
To everyone else, whatever entity is greatest (God) has unlimited, perfect freewill, so freewill exists.
Humans have limited, imperfect freewill: not everything we will happens as we will it.
Other definitions of freewill turn out to be inconsistent and semantic.
The first Biblical proof of limited freewill is Gen. 2:16-17.
Pharaoh freely willed his own hardening alongside God's participation, Ex. 8:15, 32, 9:34.
One can will to suppress one's freewill sufficiently to be indistinguishable externally from an NPC.
God has total sovereignty and power (many Scriptures) and so anything less is not God, despite rationalist objections.
Only one thing happens and God knows it, so predestination ("proorizo", 6 texts) exists. Nothing is random.
Predestination and freewill are not contradictory: God wills unlimitedly that we will limitedly (AnotherInTheFire).
The word "cause" is ambiguous: rather, God is the author of authors of evil, but not an author of evil.
Specifically, in Is. 45:7, God creates calamities to punish evils justly, but he does no evil because just punishment is good.
Gen. 50:20 shows God can will, with perfectly good will, that people would will with evil will.
However, humans who rationalize evil that good may result are imperfect at it, Rom. 3:5-8.
Aristotle says willing is inefficaceous: this argument partakes of ambiguity of "cause". Willing is relative alignment.
Predestination permits evaluation: our confluent freewill is an imperfect subset of God's, one will, free in both views.
Therefore love is the degree of perfection (alignment) of one's freewill: one's loving less is one with God's loving less.
And we are "able not to sin" when we and God agree; and not "able" when, coordinately, we fail and God withholds.
"Otherwise" doesn't happen, but willing as relative alignment with one case over another does usually happen.
The unexpected-egg paradox shows even if people are told what will happen they cannot perfectly believe it.
Science shows unknowns beyond matter and energy, so humans participate in that (soul).