[Gamecock]

Allow me to share my favorite free will story from the Old Testament: Jonah

Ahem, you see, God told Jonah that he needed to go to Nineveh

In a burst of free will not seen since my three year old wanted to cross the street by herself, Jonah decided he could do whatever he wanted.

Well, as all of you know, the boat on which he was traveling was caught up in a storm, he knew he was busted and instructed the pagan sailors to throw him overboard.

The sailors do so and along comes a great fish, swallows him, and Jonah spends the nest three days in the belly of the fish.

He repents, gets spit out, and against his free will preaches repentance to the good people of Nineveh!

The moral of this story is simple:

The Only Thing Your Free Will Can Do Is Get You Inside A Fish Belly</southern accent>

(If ya'll lived in the South you would be awed by that great analogy)

[HarleyD]

Tragically, someone ran into my wife's cousin's car at our Southern Baptist church today (fortunately no one was hurt). The Calvinist in me just thought this was predestined by God. However, I should have pointed out to my good Southern Baptist friend that his "free will" caused the accident. I wondered how that would look to the claims adjustor. :O)

[malakhi]

Allow me to share my favorite free will story from the Old Testament: Jonah

Why would you think that the way God handles His prophets is at all indicative of how He handles the rest of us?