How can free will lead? Free will, if it is anything, is led or coerced.
If the soul wants one thing and the body wants another, obviously something else is supposedly free to decide.
The ultimate reconciliation bit solidifies the un-free will.
And yet, the whole concept of Christianity is based in debts being paid, yet still requiring worship to avoid oblivion or worse.
Something doesn't add up there.
Every Good Christian® I know is woefully misinformed about their own religion. Those that seem to actually know their Bibles and their history are either no longer Christian, loosely Christian, or a swindler.
Outside of Christianity, this seems not to apply.
It leaves me wondering whether there is a statute of limitations on the trials. If Sam tries to cure Dean, and the demon trials are still in place, Sam dies and Dean lives ad nauseum.
What I'm hoping for: Dean journeys into Hell for Important Mission X, Sam purifies Crowley, and Castiel uses...
Crowley's speech to Dean was obviously to the audience, and I applaud their willingness to go somewhere completely new.
Still hoping season 10 is the end though.
Christianity, then...some vague SBNR New Age thing, then Buddhism, and now some sort of quasi-Buddhism.
Not much I'm afraid in regards to adopted religions.
I've studied Judaism a bit, and Hinduism, Islam, Baha'i, and LDS enough to become disinterested, and Taoism enough to be confused but...
"A God who could make good children as easily as bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one; who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short; who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his...
The musician that sold their soul to the Devil is a typical trope. It means the musician has "wicked" skills.
A musician whose soul belongs to Jesus is just a Christian with a guitar.