This is a small quote from the Baha'i Faith regarding, Free Will. They clearly believe it exists to the degree stated as follows.
Some things are subject to the free will of man, such as justice, equity, tyranny and injustice, in other words, good and evil actions; it is evident and clear that these actions are, for the most part, left to the will of man. But there are certain things to which man is forced and compelled, such as sleep, death, sickness, decline of power, injuries and misfortunes; these are not subject to the will of man, and he is not responsible for them, for he is compelled to endure them. But in the choice of good and bad actions he is free, and he commits them according to his own will.
We have a universe that formed by degrees from conditions of improbable exactitudes and no state of change to another within the physical realm can do so without a cause. Physical reality proceeded to relative order and areas of habitation and I imagine that this universe is teaming with unimaginable lifeforms and occasionally a sentient being emerges from the cauldron of natural order, but the difference between a human-like state and all other orders of life below that is so profound and highly suggestive that this has exceeded nominal evolutionary processes.
As all life is one, every living thing on our planet and likely throughout the universe, appears to be an expression of a single impulse of life, it seems to me that this act of life was like the construction of a pyramid. All the layers of life enabled ever more complex forms above until a sentient being becomes the tip. The tip requires everything below it and yet the tip represents the whole, in that it is able to understand the nature of the universe and the very matter that it was formed from.
In a sense a universe does not exist unless it can be understood by the apex of creation, humans and other sentient beings and yet in a way every aspect of life is a stepping stone to such a possibility and each plays its part.
As for Eve, she represents the human life force, the soul, as shown by the fact that she was formed from living tissue, a rib bone. Adam, the human spirit, was formed by the breath of G.d. Adam and Eve are one being, they represent every individual, each of us, spirit and soul, eternal and transient. The soul, Eve, is subject to free will, choosing good from evil, thus the Tree of Good and Evil and how you eat from it is the daily grind of every human.
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