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1 | Why don't you know for sure? | Eccl 11:6 | Aixen7z4 | 100200 | ||
God made man with free will, and the alternative to obedience was always there. God even made man aware of the alternative and its consequences. Read it again (Gen 2:16,17): "The LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die". Incidentally, it says what kind of tree it was. Folklore says "apple", but you have just seen what God and the Bible said. Also, it is not that man lacked knowledge. He lacked the knowledge of evil. And we ourselves should limit our knowledge of it. Please note Rom 16:19 "I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple concerning evil". Knowledge, my friend, comes through experience. May God help us to limit our knowledge of evil. We should learn that which is good, from the word of God, and then put it into practice. Be encouraged. Jesus said (John 7:17)"If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching" and (John 8:31,32) "If you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples. You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free." We also have the Holy Spirit to guide us, but we must be sensitive to his leading through the word. |
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2 | Why don't you know for sure? | Eccl 11:6 | keynam | 100218 | ||
The Bible doesn't talk about man having free will in the garden however it does say that God commanded adam not to eat of the tree of life and after the serpant talked eve into eating it she in turn gave it to adam and he ate with no questions asked. I often wonder why God allowed that to happen I assume that He knew it would happen but the question is why. | ||||||
3 | Why don't you know for sure? | Eccl 11:6 | Aixen7z4 | 100245 | ||
As I write here I try to be careful. I want to be sure I don't say wrong things, because someone else is reading it and I don't want to lead anyone astray. When I am not sure about something, I say so. I am not sure I should say the following, so I hope everyone understands. I think we should all say what God has taught us and stop there. It is not true that "The Bible doesn't talk about man having free will". I can cite many passages where the Bible says he does. Genesis 2:17 is an example. Deuteronomy 30:19 is a classic. 1 Kings 18:21 says it. Isaiah 28:13 and Isaiah 30:15 prove it. Matthew 23:37 laments it. The fact that some who read this agree and some disagree renders it indisputable. Maybe there are other verses that seem to say the opposite, but to say the Bible never says it is a mistake. And there are others. It was not the tree of life that God said man should not eat of. It was the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Check it out. As far as why God allowed sin to happen, that is a question that has been discussed many times and I would guess there is a record of it somewhere on this forum. Someone probably said that it is a matter of logic. There is no way God could have known it would happen and then prevented it, because that would mean it would not happen and God would have been mistaken to think that it would have happened. This type of reasoning can be confusing. It's of the type that ponders whether God can make a stone so large that he can't lift it. It is usually not useful to ask these questions. Someone else might have said that God is Sovereign and we should not question what he does. He knows best and we should accept what he does. In fact, we should be grateful that he reveals his will to us so we can do it. Someone else might have said that it does not matter if God allowed sin since he also gave us the antidote for sin. It's like saying it is OK that God allows us to be hungry and thirsty because he created food and water. There is sin, but Christ died for our sins. Now man, with the free will that God gave him, can choose to remain in his sin or he can repent and receive God's forgiveness. I say it is more useful to accept that than to argue with God. Some will say that God has not given us free will, but they will then exercise their free will to argue. Then someone will ask why God allows us to argue. The fact is we do not have to. We can submit to him. Sometimes I am not too sure about these things, but I will edit this before posting it, to make sure it squares the word of God. Will you also be careful how you answer? |
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4 | Why don't you know for sure? | Eccl 11:6 | keynam | 100428 | ||
you are perfectly right when you say that free will is mentioned in the Bible. What I was saying is I don't recall it being mentioned in Genisis hence I went on Biblegateway.com and looked under the kjv typed the key word free will and these scriptures came up. Exodus 21:5; Leviticus 22:18,21,23; Leviticus 23:38; Number 15:3;Numbers 29:39;Deuteronomy 12:6,17; and so on, but even when you look at these versus they talk about free will offering. The chap in Genisis that you refered to does not clearly state that Adam had a mind of his own it just states the God told Adam not to eat of the tree of knowledge(did I get it right I got it confused last time lol)before Adam and Eve ate of the tree the only thing they knew was Good so they didn't have to choose to do anything they listened to what God told them until Satan came along. The first sign of a thought pattern for man(or woman I should say) is when Eve was talking with the serpant before if I'm not mistaken there wasn't any. |
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