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Jiang accepts the classroom reading that the tree in Eden signifies preexisting free will, because God would not have placed the tree and its prohibition in the garden if humanity had no opportunity to exercise choice.
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Divine prohibition
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"But the fact that the tree existed in the garden in the first place, already shows that God has given free will from the..."
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"Yeah, so, I mean, we'll get to the garden, okay? But there are, like, so many ways you can understand what happened, okay? But,..."
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Jiang opens the Dante series by doing something deliberately strange: he starts with Paradise, rejects the clever but dead answer, and says imagination is the road to truth.
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