But whether any of these orders who act under the government of the devil, and obey his wicked commands, will in a future world be converted to righteousness because of their possessing the faculty of freedom of will, or whether persistent and inveterate wickedness may be changed by the power of habit into nature, is a result which you yourself, reader, may approve of, if neither in these present worlds which are seen and temporal, nor in those which are unseen and are eternal, that portion is to differ wholly from the final unity and fitness of things. (Book I, Chapter 6, Part 3)
Can we give away freedom of will?
Can habit - good or ill - replace freedom?
If we submit ourselves to Satan or to God, does this submission remove our ability to choose?
It seems to me our ability to choose can atrophy, but it is never fully lost.
The evidence suggests that freedom exists and persists in every aspect of nature.
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