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1 | what can God do against man's free will? | Bible general Archive 3 | Lemont | 176100 | ||
NOTICE THE WORDS "IF" AND "CHOOSE". THE BIBLE IS FULL OF SUCH REFERENCES TO OUR FREEWILL. OUR CREATOR DOES NOT NEED NOR WANT THE OBEDIENCE OF ROBOTLIKE CREATURES, BUT APPRECIATES AND DESERVES THE LOVING SUBMISSION OF GRATEFUL, MEEK ONES. Deut 30:17-20 states: "But IF your heart turns away and you do not listen, and you are actually seduced and bow down to other gods and serve them, I do tell you today that you will positively perish. You will not lengthen your days on the ground to which you are crossing the Jordan to go to take possession of it. I do take the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you today, that I have put life and death before you, the blessing and the malediction; and you must CHOOSE life in order that you may keep alive, you and your offspring, by loving the LORD your God, by listening to his voice and by sticking to him; for he is your life and the length of your days, that you may dwell upon the ground that the LORD swore to your forefathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob to give to them." |
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2 | what can God do against man's free will? | Bible general Archive 3 | kalos | 176109 | ||
The Bible is not FULL of references to man's freewill. [] In the NIV the words elect, election, choose, chosen and chose appear 250 times. In all cases they mean, simply, "chosen," or "to choose". While not always referring to election for salvation, the majority of the occurences of the words choose or chosen is speaking of God's choosing, not man's. [] "Freewill" is not the term the Bible uses when it talks about human choice. [] The word "freewill" appears a mere 22 times in the entire Bible and ALWAYS in connection with the word "offering(s)". [] 'Many people misunderstand the concept of "free will," which is not a biblical term. The reality is that while we have the ability to make truly significant choices, we don't have truly "free" will. You cannot, for example, choose to wake up tomorrow morning in China when you go to bed in Chicago. Or wake up speaking Chinese when all you know is English. You cannot choose to be a different gender than what God made you. (Yes, I'm aware of sex-change operations and know people who've had them--we're not even going there! [smile]) But we can make choices that make a difference: for example, in our attitudes, in who we marry and most importantly, which God we serve. We have limited freedom in our choices, and God does not force us to choose things His way; He respects our choices. But we do not have totally free will.' ____________________ Source: www.probe.org/docs/e-freewill.html |
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