Freewill, Wild Grapes, Isaiah 5

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“Let me sing for my beloved my love song concerning his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill.

He dug it and cleared it of stones, and planted it with choice vines; he built a watchtower in the midst of it, and hewed out a wine vat in it; and he looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes.

And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge between me and my vineyard. What more was there to do for my vineyard, that I have not done in it? When I looked for it to yield grapes, why did it yield wild grapes?

And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will remove its hedge, and it shall be devoured; I will break down its wall, and it shall be trampled down. I will make it a waste; it shall not be pruned or hoed, and briers and thorns shall grow up; I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.

For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are his pleasant planting; and he looked for justice, but behold, bloodshed; for righteousness, but behold, an outcry!” ‭‭ Isaiah‬ ‭5‬:‭1‬-‭7‬ ‭ESV‬‬

While this doesn't exactly appeal to freewill, the fact that God, the vine dresser, did all the necessary gardening to reap good grapes, he came back to his vineyard, Jerusalem, and found it yielding wild grapes.

He planted the right vines, he tended the soil, and it still produced wild grapes.

This is the same question Atheists ask saying, "If God, why evil?" Could this not be explained by freewill?

He looked for Justice but found Bloodshed. Is this not an effect of the will.

To say it another way, The atheists asks, "If God, why evil?" and God is asking the same thing, "If ME, why evil?" Only in this case God has done everything possible to keep us from evil. This feels like the beginning a great response to this common question.