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1 | Did the Apostles have a choice? | Luke 5:8 | brother paul | 179246 | ||
dear KumKum, I agree, I dont think they had a choice. To strengthen your question look at Jer 1:5. Isa 44:24, 49:1,5, and Eph 1:4,5. Here is the conundrum...... we must have free will to be able to be conformed into the image of God, because He has free will, otherwise He would not be God. But God binds Himself by His own laws by using His free will. This is exactly the path Jesus follows, he uses his free will to abrogate all the decisions to his Father. (John 6:38) He uses his free will to limit what he does to the things his Father has already stated. Because God is love and free will is the essential component of love, we need free will to be able to love. Those people who do not yet know God cannot love because they are in bondage to sin and are driven by their own desires and agendas, they cannot demonstrate true love because they are motivated by selfish lusts and do not emulate the divine nature. The only people I find in scripture who are free are those born of Him. ' the truth shall make you free' and the the 'freedom of the sons of God'. This is where legalism and orthodoxy separates itself from the Spirit. We have to rethink the meaning of 'sin' and 'salvation' in the ultimate plan of God. Was not everything He made good? What we might call 'evil' might be part of His creative plan and purpoose. What we call 'sin' may have been designed. Do we continue to eat of the tree of knowledge of ggod and evil? Pray about it, seek the Holy Spirit who brings us into all truth. (jOHN 16:13) Maybe there is a time when God chooses to call everyone to be reconciled with Him. That would make it fair. Christ came to save the world, do we believe He is going to do it, or fail? Yours and His, in Him, Paul |
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2 | Did the Apostles have a choice? | Luke 5:8 | KumKum | 179251 | ||
Thank you Paul! I read your account info and you said you had interest in numbers and such? I wondered about the human rib cage as i read that it has an 11th and 12th false ribs. Does that mean anything to you ? Yours and His, in Him, KumKum |
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3 | Did the Apostles have a choice? | Luke 5:8 | KumKum | 179252 | ||
Or rather 23rd and 24th ? hah | ||||||