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1 | Isn't God sovereign? | Bible general Archive 1 | bartay | 5744 | ||
I do not believe that God gave us free will. Free will is the motivating power that drives sin. If God gave to man, namely Adam and Eve and all prodigy after, freewill to choose, surely freewill must be another name for disobedience of God's command and law. There is no mention in scripture that man has been given freewill to do what he likes; in fact just the opposite is the case. God didn't say, you can choose to obey or not, He gave an ultimatum, if you don't obey you will die. There is no choice in that, it is a command, and was the first and only law that God implemented. It is the spiritual law. If one sees disobeying God as freewill, then obviously we have an awful lot of freewill sinners. For not only is freewill another name for disobeying God, but is also another name for sin. If one obeys, this first law God implemented for man, one has no need of any other laws, outside of that initial law. This law in the Garden was the first great law Jesus spoke of; to love God with all your heart, and have no other god's you obey; freewill makes a mockery of obedience, for it is another god which we obey, the god of self which is at enmity with God. For we are all carnal sold under sin. (Romans 7:14) Romans 8:7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. Therefore, because the pair in the Garden did not keep God's law, they were of a carnal mind, which is at enmity with God. |
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2 | Isn't God sovereign? | Bible general Archive 1 | EdB | 5786 | ||
Bartay, forgive me I used what I thought was a common Christian term "Free will". From our response I thought wrong, it must not be that common to everyone. By free will I mean we have the choice to obey or disobey. God did not create us as puppets where he pulled the string and we jumped. God set down laws and statues and precepts and told us to follow them. However as you know from the time in the garden to now many choose not to. That is "free well" | ||||||