[HarleyD]

We do not believe that we are enslaved by God as you do.

Rom 6:17-18 But thanks be to God that though you were slaves of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were committed, and having been freed from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.

Perhaps you should take the issue up with God. He says otherwise.

[kosta50]

Kosta We do not believe that we are enslaved by God as you do

HD Rom 6:17-18 But thanks be to God that though you were slaves of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were committed, and having been freed from sin, you became slaves of righteousness

"the Truth shall make you free" [John 8:32]

[kosta50]

When I wrote that we are enslaved God as you (Protestants) believe it, I meant it exactly in that sense.

You do not believe that God sets you free so that you can become His servant. You beieve that God has preordained each and every move of yours, each and every thought, that you are jjst a tool in God's hands whether you do good or evil.

Not only are we depraved; we are depraved by God's design! Yet, the Scripture tells us differently. It tells us that man was God's crown-jewel, created in His image and likeness, free and capable of making decisions.

Would you not agree that God wants man to be with HBim in Paradise? Well, he was! Are you now suggesting that God intentionally corrupted His own crown-jewel? If man is nothing but a slave to God, then none of what transpired in Paradise was man's own doing, but only God's. God must have choregraphed the Fall in the Garden of Eden and is ultimately responsible for the evil that followed.