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 Sin, the Curse, or the Atonement. If Man cannot sin against God, and if God is responsible for all Man's acts, the Old Testament is not true, the New Testament is not true, the Christian religion is not true. And if you consider the numerous crimes and blunders of the Christian Church, you will always find that they grew out of the theory of Free Will, and the doctrines of Man's sin against God, and Man's responsibility and "wickedness." St. Paul said, "As in Adam all men fell, so in Christ are all made whole." If Adam did not fall St. Paul was mistaken.