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I'm admittedly a dilettante when it comes to all this stuff. Perhaps someone with better knowledge than me in this matter can help. Most atheists would consider our actions to stem from a mixture of our biology and our environment, nature and nurture. In that condition I can easily see why one would say we don't really have free will. We don't choose our genetics, we don't choose our parents, we don't choose our environment we grow up in. So in our "free will" is compromised from the very beginning. The theist might say we do have free will because we have a soul. In other words, it's the soul that ultimately makes the decisions, not the body But what is the origin of our souls? If God creates our souls, doesn't that mean he creates the differences between souls as well? One soul a bit more jolly, one soul a bit more greedy, and another a bit more melancholic etc. That doesn't really seem free then either. If our souls are all the same in the beginning, then the problem goes back to the differences in our biology and environment- things we have no say in. Where is the free will?