>free will explains everyhting
Biggest myth in history. No such thing. We're all programmed to do what we do. We are conditioned.
Example: a Muslim kid raised by haters is going to hate. Period. You don't chose your parents. You don't choose the environment into which you are born. That shapes you, powerfully.
Does a poor kid born into drug-user poverty really have any free will? What about a poor person in India at the bottom of the caste system. Does he have free will do do anything about his plight? Or his his path laid out for him outside of anything he can do or will to do?
I used to think, what if I got exposed to the opportunity to to be a stud porn star when I was young and in my prime. Would I have been able to say no? Babes everywhere–all I could screw. And screwing them would be a vehicle to everything I ever wanted. Overwhelming pressure, no?. Temptation? Enormous, irresistible. Again, I don't know what I might have done in those circumstances. Just thinking here, trying to understand.
Did Pharaoh truly have free will? God had to harden his heart to resist so God could display the great miracles he willed to display, something that could not have happened had Pharaoh gave in. He was like a puppet on strings.
Having said all this, we do have some freedom (wiggle room) concerning our will. But it is within certain limits, set by a higher power. We are judged by what we do with what are given.
But we don't have absolute free will.
Only God has that.