This passage suggests something more complex or mysterious than a simple dichotomy between free will and predestination:
“Simon, Simon, behold, Satan demanded to have all of you to sift like wheat. But I begged for you, that your faith may not fail. And you, when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers. “But he replied, “Lord, I am ready to go with you to prison and to death.” Jesus answered, “I tell you, Peter, before the rooster crows today, you will deny three times that you know me.”
Is Barbara related to Linda and little Sam?
Momma Fried getting the excuses in early for her son’s fraud. He had to rip those people off, he had no choice.
This passage suggests something more complex or mysterious than a simple dichotomy between free will and predestination:
“Simon, Simon, behold, Satan demanded to have all of you to sift like wheat. But I begged for you, that your faith may not fail. And you, when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers. “But he replied, “Lord, I am ready to go with you to prison and to death.” Jesus answered, “I tell you, Peter, before the rooster crows today, you will deny three times that you know me.”
Luke 22:31-34
Nothing like having freshman philosophy arguments with "adults".
Free will not for me but for thee.
All those folks at AA will be so disappointed to learn that their alcoholism was predestined. Or perhaps their rehab and abstinence was. Hmmm.