DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music. - Richard Dawkins
I disagree with Dawkins though. I believe that we are more than the sum of our genetic makeup and environment. We also have the spirit which can go against those two factors. The soul/spirit, which is independent of our genes and environment, gives us this free will.
You quoted Jesus yourself, "Is it not written in your Law, 'I have said you are "gods"'
I agree. However...
Be the person atheist or theist, disconnect his spine at the neck, and he can will to walk and wave his hands around all day, and it doesn't work, right?
Or take the whole and healthy person and let him will to fly through the air like superman. Does it happen? Or is his will only a wish or desire? But what about the free will to wish or desire? Isn't such set in place according to C&E causing certain synapses to fire in the brain? And isn't the C&E of the firing due to all kinds of C&E operations, which ultimately go back to the beginning, when everything was set in place by the way it was created?
Artificial free will only operates according to the way C&E allows it to act.
But since we are gods "to whom the Word of God comes," with real free will 'cause God says, why are we limited to using artificial free will? But if we use real free will, where and when and how?
This takes us into faith. "Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God."
