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To: irishtenor
I am absolutely positive that most, if not all, of my “refomed” friends agree

Your reformed friends dney free will.

Galatians 5:13 “You, my brothers, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the sinful nature; rather, serve one another in love.”...We are FREE, more free than the unregenerated.

And Ephesians 6:6 says "not by way of eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but as slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart."

In other words, doing the will of God is not freedom but servitude. And servitude means less freedom. It comes form the heart, but it's sevritude nonetheless, because that heart was changed by God's will and not ours, right?

Your theology teaches that God changes our hearts and gives us faith and that you really have no choice but to believe, so you are actually less free; you have fewer options if you are obligated to do God's will!

But a Christian soul is free from the fallen world, and the tansient charm it has on us; we cannot be bought with wordly things and simple pleasures, to which we were born as slaves into our fallen naure.

4,426 posted on 03/22/2008 8:25:22 PM PDT by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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To: kosta50

***Your reformed friends dney free will.***

As do I, if you mean that a person can, on his own, choose to believe God. That can’t happen, as scripture points out all over the place.


4,429 posted on 03/24/2008 9:57:02 AM PDT by irishtenor (Check out my blog at http://boompa53.blogspot.com/)
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