What a nasty theology.
And what a tortuous logic it requires to defend it.
“Ony chilrdern of God have the capacity to please God. Only a child of God can choose to please God. In that sense, only a child of God has free will.”
The robot slave is the only one with free will; all those who exercise free will to not worship God don’t have free will...
I’ve posted before quantities of verses pulled from all over the Bible saying that God wants all people to be with Him. It is the purpose of His creation of man - to have all of them willingly worshiping Him.
I’m afraid that we are rehashing old ground here - I give you the Gospels which give direction to all men and you give me Saint Paul who was admonishing a couple of churches under his bishopric - and then apply them to all men (when they were specific to those churches) over top of and instead of the words of Jesus.
Watch it, you are treading on my beliefs. I have NEVER denigrated your beliefs, no matter how erroneous I believe them to be.
***I give you the Gospels which give direction to all men and you give me Saint Paul who was admonishing a couple of churches under his bishopric - and then apply them to all men (when they were specific to those churches) over top of and instead of the words of Jesus.***
See, here is the problem. You believe that the Gospel is the word of Jesus, I believe the WHOLE BIBLE is the word of Jesus.