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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

I believe that God gives us complete control over our own decisions. In this way, we are not allowed to say, “God made me do it”. Or the devil made me do it. We are enticed by our own lust and desires In the same way that no-one can sin for us. Each man works out his own salvation with fear and trembling. No-one can worship God for us. We do it because we love Him and it would not be love if it were forced to
I believe that it is a line God will not cross. His love for us gives us the complete freedom to do as we please. To repent, to turn around and to change. To move towards Him or to turn away.

Freedom and love are partners. We are slaves to God when we call Him master. But we do this willingly and can turn away at any time if we so choose to do that.


37 posted on 12/24/2014 10:51:03 PM PST by shineon
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To: shineon
I believe that it is a line God will not cross. His love for us gives us the complete freedom to do as we please.

While the power of sin is in our hands, it is not possible that anything can come to pass but what God has ordained. Otherwise it is not true that God "orders the steps of man," or that the Jews crucified Christ as they were "ordained" to do, or that what men "meant for evil," God does for good, or that "all things work together for good" for the elect, since these actions are not under God's control, but man's only. Furthermore, if you have the complete freedom to do as you please, then it follows that the verses "no one can call Christ lord but by the Holy Ghost" and others like it are false, since you should have the power to believe in God at any time, even without the Holy Ghost, or without the "granting of the Father", as in John 6.

Men are by nature dead in sin, born in it and are its sworn servants. It is our hearts that are all in the wrong, and even without the providence of God, man would only choose to do more and more sin.

40 posted on 12/24/2014 11:47:50 PM PST by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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