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To: CynicalBear

no. it doesn’t mean that.

free will simply means the ability to say yes or no without God making either choice impossible for you to accept or reject, as if He did that, you would not be making a 100% choice on your own.

all saved christians realize they are not saved by anything they do or not do. it all is because of Christ’s work.


93 posted on 06/16/2013 4:38:45 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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It’s funny how many people seem to worship the concept of free will, insisting that God wants men to choose him willingly. This in spite of the fact that God COMMANDS men to love Him. According to Jesus (Matthew 22:36-40) the greatest commandment is that we love God with all of our heart, with all our soul and all our mind. This isn’t a request, or a suggestion; it’s a command.

God commands everyone to love Him, and He promises destruction for those who do not. And yet man deludes himself into thinking that God bows to the “free will” of man? How absurd.


98 posted on 06/16/2013 5:34:11 PM PDT by paulist ("there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus")
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