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To: Petronski
It is not free will that sends souls to hell, but the evil choices they used their free will to make.

But you have free will being the agent which facilitates this damnation.

Why would I get in a car that has a bomb attached to it with a 50-50 chance of blowing up?

Those whom God has not given His Holy Spirit remain in the darkness. They sin and they love their sins. They do not repent because they do not want to repent and believe. These men are slaves to sin. They know nothing else.

Those whom God has named as His family will, by His grace through the gift of the indwelling Holy Spirit, becomes slaves to His righteousness. They recognize their sins as repugnant to the perfect justice of God and repent of their sins and believe in Christ as their Lord and Savior and are saved by the Son of God paying for every one of their sins on the cross.

And all this was declared by God at the moment of creation. Nothing is outside God's perfect knowledge of all that exists or will exist.

Discard the empty baggage of free will, Petronski. It's God's creation and He does with it what He will.

"Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me,

Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure" -- Isaiah 46:9-10

Read Ephesians 1.

1,866 posted on 07/21/2008 2:33:50 PM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg
But you have free will being the agent which facilitates this damnation.

No. The choices (misuses) of free will facilitate this damnation.

God wants us to choose Him.

1,900 posted on 07/21/2008 3:30:44 PM PDT by Petronski (Scripture & Tradition must be accepted & honored w/equal sentiments of devotion & reverence. CCC 82)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg

***Discard the empty baggage of free will, Petronski. It’s God’s creation and He does with it what He will.***

Without free will there is no responsibility. Are you advocating anarchy?


2,767 posted on 07/29/2008 4:46:27 PM PDT by MarkBsnr ( I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so.)
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