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To: Bobsvainbabblings

“One of those rules is that I have free will.”

Do you have a Scripture passage that supports this specific assertion? Specifically that “free will” is a rule in the universe.

“I agree that He chose me. I used my freewill to accept that invitation using the way, or rule, He provided, His Son.”

Non-sensical. in your explanation, His choice is absolutely meaningless. Our choice is therefore sovereign and determinate.

I notice you have yet to provide a single Scripture reference for your earlier posts. I provide Scripture, while you do nothing but write your feelings. Give me an applicable Scripture passage for each one of your following quotes.

1. “God can do nothing to stop what we do, right or wrong. He also cannot stop what Satan does.”

2. “God can only suggest how we find truth.”

3. “He can only keep trying to show us the right way desiring all will use their free will to chose salvation”

4. “Just as God gives rules for our lives, He has given rules to Himself He cannot violate. Our freewill is one of those rules.”

5. “One of those rules allows us to have free will to make decisions, good or bad, in our lives. If He violates any rules He has made, including our free will, He is a liar and can’t be trusted about anything He says.”


84 posted on 01/31/2011 11:31:40 AM PST by paulist ("For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain." - Philippians 1:21)
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To: paulist
 

Genesis 2:16-17 (New King James Version)

16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat;

17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”

Do you think God could command Adam to eat or not eat of the trees of the garden if Adam did not have a choice, free will, to eat or not eat of the trees?

Do you think God could punish Adam, and us, if Adam was incapable of making a choice?

The fall gave us a sin nature. It did not take away are choice. It only makes it harder for us to choose God. BVB

 

86 posted on 01/31/2011 6:19:08 PM PST by Bobsvainbabblings
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