Free will and purpose

The spirit within the universe knows how to create. Throughout most of creation, the spirit is fulfilled maximally. Mineral, vegetable, and animal fulfil their purpose absolutely and without aberration. Humans, thanks to consciousness, imaginative ability, and physical skills, have infinitely more creative ability than a lump of anthracite, a fig tree, or a gazelle, but the exercise of that ability is concomitant with free will, because potential far outstrips possibility: choices must be made. The existence of free will entails the possibility that it may be exercised for ill not good, and man's creative potential is far from fulfilled. Were humanity to be destroyed, the source of humanity and the associated potential would remain intact, unharmed. Creation in the broadest sense would proceed unimpeded. Nothing real can be destroyed, but human nature abhors futility and is compelled to find purpose. Purpose consists in maximally realising creative potential. Sin consists in a failure to do so: it has no substance in itself; it is merely a missing-of-the-mark, like an arrow that fails to hit the target but disappears into the surrounding nothingness.