The answer
St. Cyril of Jerusalem says, “Know also that you have a self-governed soul, the noblest work of God, made after the image of its Creator: immortal because of God who gives it immortality; a living being, rational, imperishable, because of Him who bestowed these gifts: having free power to do what it wills.464 For it is not according to your birth date that you sin, nor is it by the power of chance that you commit fornication, nor, as some idly say, do the conjunctions of the stars compel you to give yourself to wantonness.465”466
Fr. Tadros Yacoub Malaty
Notes
464 Tertullian, Against Marcion 2.6: It was proper that he who is the image and likeness of God should be formed with a free will, and a mastery of himself, so that this very thing, namely freedom of will and self-command, might be reckoned as the image and likeness of God in him.
465 Compare Augustine, City of God 5.1, where he says that the astrologers (Mathematici) say, not merely such or such a position of Mars signifies that a man will be a murderer, but makes him a murderer.
466 St. Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures 4.18 (NPNF II/7:23) amended.