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To: Diapason
Chapter and verse? Sorry, that’s just my opinion based upon experience, study and observation.

Denying the existence of God given free will is your choice, but my guess is that choice is probably not solely your own original idea.

To me, human free will is a major underlying theme of the Bible and taming our will, often through sacrifice and fasting, for two examples, is one of our major challenges, if not the major challenge, on the path to Heaven.

An example of free will is how Jesus never stops knocking at our door, but we have to choose to open it.

He never forces you or makes you do anything. You can resist Him until the end, if you want to. You can even take your own life in spite of His pleading with you. All your choice thanks to free will.

If there is no free will, then what is the point of life for either our Creator or for us, His Creation?

Free will is found in that pause between stimulus and response where we get to choose what our response will be.

It is in that moment between stimulus and response that our destiny is decided, choice by choice.

Our free will is one of the incredible powers that our Creator gave us, along with the power to transform our thoughts into physical reality, that we often seem to take for granted.

Shake that off. Life’s too short for that, and Satan is far too tricky to not take advantage of such opportunities.

654 posted on 06/11/2018 8:13:53 AM PDT by GBA (Here in the matrix, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.)
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To: GBA; Diapason
Our will is not free because we can't even come to Christ or turn to God without His intervention. HE is the one who must call us and draw us. Until then, we can't come to Him.

John 6:44 No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day.

It's natural human reaction of the sin nature in response to God to run from Him.

693 posted on 06/12/2018 10:18:23 AM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith......)
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