Subject: Why do we have ""Free-Will"? |
Bible Note: Hello Terry. I do not believe God created angels or man with free will. To me free will is an illusion. Not even God has free will except ONE will, that is, Good. If my conclusions that there is only One God, there is none like Him, and God gives His glory (holiness, righteousness, etc.), to no one, and that by virtue of creation angel and man was created sin-ful ("missing the mark"), that neither angel nor man was created with any Deific attributes or "properties" and that the rerason why man (Adam) sinned was because he was created sin-ful ("missing the mark") Sin comes from sinner. Man sinned because he was a sinner. He is not a sinner because he sinned. Man does not have free will because even the will in man is in bondage to sin (sinfulness), and that that bondage prevents man from being free in any part of his creation or being. The reason why I believe free will in man is an illusion because although we can choose between chocolate and vanilla, or to wear the blue shirt or gray one, the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil was not a tree that made Adam good or evil, but only served to give him the KNOWLEDGE of good and evil. Some say that Adam was "neutral" or "innocent," but I discount that knowing that such "neutrality" or "innocence" was voided when he did good and obeyed God to name the animals. If man sinned because he was created a sinner, then there is no free will. Sin comes from sinner. Sin does not come from holy. The last Adam proved this. Jesus Christ was born sinless and did not sin because of that sinless-ness and His holiness. All our choices to do this or that comes from a will in bondage, and that only God has such a "free will" to do or not do a thing, but that God does not have a "will" to do evil, thus, God has a will to do or not do a thing, but does not have an experimental will to do evil as man certainly does. Ephesians 2:10 (KJV) 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. Worship, prayers, deeds from un-converted man is sin ("missing the mark") before God, and if these things are done void of the Holy Spirit, then they are sin-ful. The will is not free (saved and unsaved) because we are still in this body of this death and death is the penalty for sin (not necessarily doing acts of evil/sin. Are you following me on this? |