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Sorry, but there is, in your world, after all, no such thing as free will; everything is predetermined by the laws of physics/nature. There are no alternatives. No one could have done anything differently. Paul never "chose" one thing over another. And no one was ever led to any choice in his wake. The notion of "free will" has been long discarded. Perhaps you could argue that there is a degree of statistical indeterminacy, throwing in Quantum Mechanics just to drive the point home, and that some neural butterfly-effect can here-and-there take hold, creating the illusion that people might have made "decisions" or been "forgetful" and that pederasty might have subsequently flourished and that that would have been a "good" thing. But the fact remains: no one ever makes a choice. Which makes it quite curious that you "choose," from infinite options (except there are no options), decisive moments in the early history of Christianity as historical "choice"-points, as if they were "mistakes", since action is and always has been entirely contingent and arbitrary and beyond the reach of anyone, of any being, in the history of sentience itself. A shame, as some of your speculations are very interesting, that we must reject them all. |