On reflection, I think I dislike some terminology I've used here. The quantity that's different in the two cases isn't exactly "freedom", it's something more like "decision". Freedom is (at least according to my analogy) expected quantity of decision.
So what are we actually discussing: freedom/unfreedom, in the sense of how much an individual is able to exercise their free will at the point of decision; or ease/difficulty; or some kind of information-theoretic metric?
Freedom/unfreedom seems to be the only one with any bearing on the wider discussion.
The information-theoretic quantity is intellectually interesting, but unless it corresponds to how much the individual gets to exercise their free will it's not relevant to the discussion about whether Christianity is true and whether it's reasonable for God to expect people to choose him. (Phrases like "how much freedom that choice itself introduces to the world" make me think you're conceptualising it as an abstract informational quantity very similar to entropy, rather than something the individual making the decision experiences.)
And if it's ease/difficulty, then your complaint would boil down to "God makes it too easy for people to choose him", which is the opposite of what you're saying in the last paragraph of this post.
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So what are we actually discussing: freedom/unfreedom, in the sense of how much an individual is able to exercise their free will at the point of decision; or ease/difficulty; or some kind of information-theoretic metric?
Freedom/unfreedom seems to be the only one with any bearing on the wider discussion.
The information-theoretic quantity is intellectually interesting, but unless it corresponds to how much the individual gets to exercise their free will it's not relevant to the discussion about whether Christianity is true and whether it's reasonable for God to expect people to choose him. (Phrases like "how much freedom that choice itself introduces to the world" make me think you're conceptualising it as an abstract informational quantity very similar to entropy, rather than something the individual making the decision experiences.)
And if it's ease/difficulty, then your complaint would boil down to "God makes it too easy for people to choose him", which is the opposite of what you're saying in the last paragraph of this post.