Can the man be justly blamed for the acts of the cherub?

No. Man did not make the cherub, did not select the cherub, and is
obliged to obey the cherub.

God made the cherub, and gave him command of the man. Therefore God
alone is responsible for the acts the man performs in obedience to the
cherub's orders.

If God put a beggar on horseback, would the horse be blamable for
galloping to Monte Carlo? The horse must obey the rider. The rider was
made by God. How, then, can God blame the horse?

If God put a "will" on Adam's back, and the will followed the beckoning
finger of Eve, whose fault was that?

The old Christian doctrine was that Adam was made perfect, and that he
fell. (How could the "perfect" fall?)

Why did Adam fall? He fell because the woman tempted him.

Then Adam was not strong enough to resist the woman. Then, the woman had
power to overcome Adam's will. As the Christian would express it, "Eve
had the stronger will."

Who made Adam? God made him. Who made Eve? God made her. Who made the
Serpent? God made the Serpent.

Then, if God made Adam weak, and Eve seductive, and the Serpent subtle,
was that Adam's fault or God's?

Did Adam choose that Eve should have a stronger will than he, or that
the Serpent should have a stronger will than Eve? No. God fixed all
those things.

God is all-powerful. He could have made Adam strong enough to resist
Eve. He could have made Eve strong enough to resist the Serpent. He need
not have made the Serpent at all.

God is all-knowing. Therefore, when He made Adam and Eve and the Serpent
He knew that Adam and Eve _must_ fall. And if God knew they _must_ fall,
how could Adam help falling, and how _could_ he justly be blamed for
doing what he _must_ do?

God made a bridge--built it _Himself_, of His own materials, to His own
design, and knew what the bearing strain of the bridge was.

If, then, God put upon the bridge a weight equal to double the bearing
strain, how could God justly blame the bridge for falling?

The doctrine of Free Will implies that God knowingly made the Serpent
subtle, Eve seductive, and Adam weak, and then damned the whole human
race because a bridge He had built to fall did not succeed in standing.

Such a theory is ridiculous; but upon it depends the entire fabric of
Christian theology.

For if Man is not responsible for his acts, and therefore cannot sin
against God, there is no foundation for the doctrines of the Fall, the
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