The nature of Man's freewill

Still thinking on freewill from last week's post.
When considering freedom and freewill, there is the danger of too many laws hindering it, and the danger of too few stopping it all together. To many laws is a tyranny. Too few anarchy. Neither is freedom of choice. Therefore rules and laws cannot be the nemesis of our freewill, they are that which defines it. Humans are too limited, too finite, too uncreative to have freedom without them. We simply don't have enough creativity to "think" of something on our own. Our very limitations define our choices.
Without limits, the spectrum is too broad; choices become inconsequential.

If you ask a child what they want to be when they grow up, they may answer, "Spiderman!" or "A horsey!" Hardly viable options. Questions without qualifications become non-sense questions. What does blue taste like? Questions, I imagine, that even God can't answer because they defy the laws He has set into the permanence of the universe (or this one anyway.) So even the question, "What do you want to do?" must have definition. When? When I retire? Tonight? What are my options? Have a game of pool with the guys, or become a doctor?

For our will to be constructive, our choices to have consequence, we must therefore have options put before us. As we saw before, no rules doesn't mean freedom, it means chaos. Nothingness. Soccer without the rules is just a ball to kick (or throw).

Nature, being finite herself also has rules she "follows." Some are easy for us to understand, some difficult, others perhaps impossible. Some don't even seem to meld together as far as we can see. Einstein despised the fact that he couldn't reconcile Newtonian (Classical) physics and quantum physics. Maybe someone will. Then we shall be even more satisfied, nature without rules is a less than a vacuum. Two plus two is four today and 738.243528 tomorrow. Atoms wouldn't form, much less apples. They certainly wouldn't fall from trees onto our heads.
The older philosophers and scientists had a great reverence for God. They knew that without His wisdom and order, they couldn't reason through the universe, nor would there be a universe to study. Atheism turns out to be too simple, as Lewis says.

So even when we invent something, it turns out to be more of a discovery of something already thought of by God. Don't worry, I'm not propounding neo-platonism.
"Necessity is the mother of all invention," is true to fact because the need defines what is needed. As an artist in college, I used to complain a lot about people who came up and said, "draw me something." What? You want a tree, a portrait, a chicken salad sandwich? A little direction is all that is needed. "Use your imagination," they would say. "It's somehow too broad and yet too narrow."
Artists were revered in our ancient past (oh, the days gone of long ago...) because people knew that insight and imagination were rare. The ability to express thoughts, to draw them out of the ether, divine.

Which brings me back to God. Whereas we are finite and nearsighted, in need of laws, limitations and the rules in order to make the simplest of decisions, God is infinite and infinitely creative. He can do anything 'that comes to mind.' But as He is the source of all ideas, no "new idea" could present itself to the Creator. He IS imagination. Being infinite and transtemporal, His ideas don't leak out over a good glass of wine, they always have been, just as He has been. They all come out at the fount of eternity itself. His thoughts Are, as He Is. They are Him, His thoughts His personality just as ours are.(1) His thoughts are 'what He has to say about Himself,' His Word: Christ. Ergo, the theology of John, "In the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God and the Word was God," and "all things are made by and for Christ" holds sound.

Lets try to break this down: God is infinite. Infinite Being means infinite Creativity. God's "Freewill" is His Word, Christ.
Man is finite and mortal, one must be given choices for one to choose, to have a freewill.
Christ becomes man, drawing Man into God, setting us free. God's laws are not so much rules to tell us how to live well, more of simple statements of reality. God saying, 'This is what I am like.' In our submission He breaks all the limitations we have set upon ourselves in sin. A man or woman in Christ can now do 'infinite things.' "You will do all this and more, in my name," and "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me."
So, apparently, being in Christ is enlightening in the truest sense. The only way to break free is by submitting.
To die to self and be resurrected. Mind, body and spirit.

(1) We literally are created in His image.