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To: kosta50; Dr. Eckleburg; D-fendr; HarleyD
Why do you deny God's right to give men free will? Deuteronomy makes it clear that the Jews understood it that way and certainly the Apostolic Church has all along.

I don't deny any of His rights. I just don't think His word tells us that God chose to exercise that right. Rather, the verses I posted, and many others, tell us that God retained His sovereignty and is truly in control. ...... If you are referring to the Mosaic Covenant in Deuteronomy 28, then it is certainly true that many have misunderstood this to mean that free will works translate into salvation. But that has never been the case. God-given (grace through) faith has always been the only way to salvation. The Mosaic Law did not erase the Abrahamic Covenant (God's promise). It was Christ's work that served as atonement, not the free will works of man.

Gal 3:16-19 : 16 The promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. The Scripture does not say "and to seeds," meaning many people, but "and to your seed," meaning one person, who is Christ. 17 What I mean is this: The law, introduced 430 years later, does not set aside the covenant previously established by God and thus do away with the promise. 18 For if the inheritance depends on the law, then it no longer depends on a promise; but God in his grace gave it to Abraham through a promise. 19 What, then, was the purpose of the law? It was added because of transgressions until the Seed to whom the promise referred had come. ...

11,158 posted on 02/27/2007 4:02:24 PM PST by Forest Keeper
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To: Forest Keeper
I just don't think His word tells us that God chose to exercise that right [ to give men free will].

Your descriptions are beginning to seem a bit like we're in The Matrix. All is an illusion?

11,159 posted on 02/27/2007 4:57:14 PM PST by D-fendr
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