like Christianity when God comes down and tells Noah that there will be a great flood. Oedipus has no idea of this and when he finds out he doesn’t believe it. But in the beginning he has no idea of this fact, this is due to the fact that this was told to his parents and not to him because he was still an infant. When the king and queen were told this, they immediately and reluctantly told one of the servants to take the child away and have Oedipus’s life snuffed out. So to make a long story short, Oedipus was left hanging from a tree by his ankles and a shepherd who gave him to another shepherd. Now this shepherd gave the young child to the king and queen of another island. He was raised without the knowledge of his true heredity. Thusly, he could not have seen the gross erroneous event that was about to occur and change his life drastically and cause his eventual downfall after this series of events occurs. But even without the knowledge of his horrendous future he still used free will to kill the man he met in the woods and marry the Queen of Thebes.When Oedipus finds out that he is the bearer of the plague that was brought down Thebes he blinds himself and then he leaves to wander in his own blindness and never ending pain. This is not unlike the punishment given to people who are poor Christians, they are doomed to hell and punished for all of eternity in a fiery pain.The fact of free will is similar to the consensus in the Christian religion as well. Regardless of whether or not you choose what is right, you still make the choice, while God still knows what will happen and you don’t. Although God knows what choice you will make, you still make that choice, and that is your free will, to make the choice that will dictate the next event in your path in life. So in turn, you are responsible for what you are going to do because you still have the free will to or not to do it or make the opposing choice. God knows th...
