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1 | Have we chosen freely? | James 2:19 | flinkywood | 87025 | ||
Asis, I come to your house because you approved my application to do so, is that what you're saying? | ||||||
2 | Have we chosen freely? | James 2:19 | Asis | 87030 | ||
No. You come to my house because you have heard about what is happening there and you want to partake. You have chosen to come all by yourself. Just because I know your coming does not nulify your free choice to come. This is the answer to what you wrote "Does God's already knowing our choice mean we haven't freely chosen?" In my analogy I already know the choice you have made yet YOU still made the choice of your own free will. SEE? The other is about election and chosen. Which is used in connection with predestination. Ask yourself this "Would God go through all this if it was already set what would happen. I mean in the individual sense. |
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3 | Have we chosen freely? | James 2:19 | flinkywood | 87038 | ||
No, I'm not sure whether God "sets" what is to happen; I'm trying to suss it out here within the Forum. A couple of thoughts: Because God is above time and knows what will happen and why, does it necessarily mean that He's written each physical circumstance and decision of the human heart? The book of Esther indicates that the answer might be yes; even the necessary, inexorable death of Jesus appears to make the answer yes (a sudden insight into the infinite reach of that plan blew Paul's mind in Romans Ch. 11). Yet the story of Abraham and Isaac indicates otherwise, that God loved Abraham precisely because he chose to believe God's promise. If God wired Abraham to make no other choice than he did, then God has loved a puppet. On the one hand, no, I don't think God has made us puppets; on the other, perhaps He has chosen each of us already. How could He not have? Interesting topic, hard to comprehend -- for me at least. Colin |
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