Subject: Does God have free will? |
Bible Note: God has freedom of choice, but he is perfect by his very nature, so he will never desire anything but what ultimately brings Him the most glory. What we have to understand is that there is not even the slightest shadow of unholiness or imperfection in God, so the impossibility of him doing evil springs not from any lack of omnipotence, but the very fact that sin and God don't even belong in the same sentence. Praise be to God that one day all believers will share in this luxury of freedom from sin! Of course, being of the Reformed persuasion, I hold that the unregenerate man's free will is in bondage to sin, so that he will not desire to choose good until liberated by the Holy Spirit. Therefore, according to Romans, we are bondslaves to sin and death or liberated by Christ. Sin is bondage, not freedom. Paul expounds on sin as slavery in Romans 6. Give it a read! Sin is not an act of freedom. --Joe! |