HUH?
You used that scripture to imply that Jesus was speaking about YOU..he was not ..unless you are saved you are an enemy of Gods..not His friend. .
And besides that; if things are as you say and I have no free will, then what does it matter that I do or don't?
If you are not saved it does not matter what you do.. every thing you do is sin.. EVERYTHING even works the world calls good
If God is not my friend, then why shouldn't I tremble in terror at the Great Despot?
Because He is Holy and Righteous and will oe day be your judge.. He can send you to hell..
If God is as you paint, giving me no free will and not being my friend; then why should I believe that He intends any good thing for me?
If you are not saved he has no good intent for you..
But hey, maybe you're right. Maybe God created me to hate. Maybe God made me simply so he could laugh at my pathetic attempts at life.
The purpose of creation is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever.. Men will never choose to love God without a movement of His grace on them first..Free will? Man will NEVER choose God.. so his "free will " is no gift .it damns him
After all, your God, being perfectly free creates man in his own image, but without any freedom and with an inherent sin-nature.
Is man still in the image of our Holy and perfect God now? What does the bible tell us?
Gen 5:3 And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat [a son] in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:
You need to learn to read scripture..all promises in the scripture do not belong to all men..they were specific to the audience.. and Jesus called the disciples His friends..not you
Wow! How utterly repugnant, and how utterly stupid, and how utterly contrary to the whole of the bible: If God has no good intent for me then he did not send Jesus to die for my sins, BEFORE I WAS SAVED, in order to save me -- such would be good intent and, according to you, require me to already be saved.
(Indeed, the New-covenant [Jesus], the Abrahamic-covenant, the Noah-covenant, the Adamic-covenant ALL require God's good intent.)
1 John 4:19 (KJV) -- We love him, because he first loved us.
Romans 5:8 -- but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
But God does have good intent toward me; He sent Jesus do be the propitiation for my sins. Now let me ask: Who are you to tell me that I am not saved? And who are you to tell me that God has no good intent for me?
No, I think that it is you who has no good intent for me.