In the film, Devil’s Advocate (1997), human
free-will plays a very important role. It has implications not only for whether
humans tend to be good or evil, but also on how culpable God is for the evil
that committed by humans. One of the devil’s sons by a mortal woman, Kevin
Lomax, must choose whether or not to impregnate his half-sister, Christabella
Andreoli, to produce the Anti-Christ, which John Milton, who is the devil, wants
so much. In Christian theology, both the extent of free-will and how tainted it
is from the Fall have been debated. Even within Augustine’s works, his thought
changes. The one thing that cannot be asserted is that free-will both does and
does not exist. Also, that so many greedy people have been so destructive of
democracies and even the planet does not necessarily mean that God is
responsible or that humans are not capable of choosing to do good over evil.
The full essay is at "Devil's Advocate."
