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god made man a creature of indeterminate uncertain and indifferent able to develop in various ways nature, and, placing him in the middle of the world, said to him, “adam, we give you no fixed place to live, no form that is peculiar to you, nor any function that is yours alone. according to your desires and judgement, you will have and possess whatever place to live, whatever form, and whatever functions you yourself choose. all other things have a limited and fixed nature prescribed and bounded by our laws. you, with no limit or no bound, may choose for yourself the limits and bounds of your nature. we have placed you at the world’s center so that you may survey everything else in the world. we have made you neither of heavenly nor of earthly stuff, neither mortal nor immortal, so that with free choice and dignity, you may fashion yourself into whatever form you choose. to you is granted the power of degrading yourself into the lower forms of life, the beasts, and to you is granted the power, contained in your intellect and judgement, to be reborn into the higher forms, the divine.” understand the main idea pico here imagines what god might say to humans. in one sentence, summarize the main idea of this speech.
God gives humans free - will to shape their own nature and form without fixed limits.
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God grants humans the freedom to choose their nature, place, form, and function.