Is someone with autism responsible for their autistic behaviors? Think about the answer hard. His or her behaviors are being informed by the way their neurodivergent brain is wired, and yet the choice to commit to those behaviors still belongs to them. Even with autism, they still have agency. Those behaviors make every sense in the world for them to do at that moment even though they may be completely inappropriate or in some cases violent. Their brains are telling them, "yes, this is the right course of action for you to take," maybe even screaming it at them even if they know intellectually that's not the case. The same is true of people with ADHD. In order to perform "normally" with relatively "normal" behaviors, it can take an extreme amount of effort, and even then they're really just role playing for all intents and purposes. It's exhausting, draining, and the end result is never quite "right".
Now understand that this is also what's going on with "hamartia," traditionally translated as "sin." The difference here is that "every" human being has this disorder. We don't even recognize it for what it is because we've only ever had one "normal" human being born in the last couple of millennia. The human brain, and specifically the amygdala, is functioning on a set of physical parameters that it wasn't originally supposed to be. It's overreactive in comparison with all other animals. And this is also what happens when you try to apply "normal" social expectations to it, such as with rules or moral "law." It becomes role playing and "masking". It can take an extreme amount of effort to not give in to what your own brain is screaming at you to do. It's exhausting and draining trying to just perform "normally." The choice to commit to those hamartia behaviors still belongs to the person in question, but understand that it is that person's own brain which is influencing them and pushing them to do so.
As long as it is the brain which is the source of responses and behaviors, this will be the case. This is what the Gospel is really about; changing the source of responses and behaviors and bypassing the dysfunctional hardware of the human brain. Because the truth is that we are not just animal, we are also logos. We are not just flesh, we are also spirit, and originally, the brain was meant to be a transceiver of sorts for that logos or spirit, what is now frequently called "consciousness."
The altered parameters of the human amygdala put us constantly under the control of our survival responses, and the fear response in particular so that we treat everything, every memory, every like or dislike, every imagining, every encounter as either a survival threat or a survival necessity. This constant state blocks or obstructs the original, natural control and responses of the spirit or logos. This is why Jesus Christ came, and why He died and resurrected, because what has died has been made right from hamartia.
Jesus Christ died and resurrected or "resuscitated" because this is literally the only thing which can for certain neutralize our problem. The after-effects of those who have near death experiences, those who have literally died or been brain dead for a short period and then returned to life, are fairly well documented and they are all marked by a sudden increase of love, empathy, and compassion for all other people, sometimes supernatural abilities, and the genuine and mostly permanent loss of being controlled by their fear. So how do you make this available to every human being without them actually having to die?
This is why the Logos, the Head of every other logos human beings carry and to whom every human being is connected, incarnated as a human being, and why He chose to die and resurrect, because, in so doing, His death and resurrection experience becomes our death and resurrection experience, and the aftereffects upon the human brain become ours as well if we are aware that we are capable of choosing them and do so.
Jesus Christ died and resurrected to give us a real solution to our human dysfunction, our inherited disorder without destroying our free will to choose. He died and resurrected in order to give us the real choice to behave "normally" as human beings were intended to with the spirit or logos behaving and responding and not a dysfunctional organ within the brain.
He died and resurrected to restore us and change us to what we were intended to be, incarnations of the Logos just like Him.
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