“That verse doesn't say our will for our life usurps God's.”
you have an odd way of interpreting things other people say.
You only say that because you quoted my remarks and then posted a scripture that has no relevance to what I said.
do you have trouble with the term liberty ? It means freedom here’s niv version
Sure I do. That's why I made a very clear link to the Biblical definition of liberty.
[/QUOTE]"You, my brothers and sisters, were
called to be free. But
do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh; rather, serve one another humbly in love.”
Galatians 5:13 NIV
I’m not sure if you just are irritated with me or are really making the thought we don’t have a choice in what we do but from the beginning man was given freedom , and responsibility
“And the Lord God commanded the man, saying,
Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,
thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof
thou shalt surely die.”
Genesis 2:16-17 KJV
you are free but I’m warning you about this poisonous tree don’t eat of it or you will die
and then later when the law came to israel
“I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that
I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:”
Deuteronomy 30:19 KJV
life and death is before you choose life so you may live
now in Christ
“Know ye not, that to
whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey;
whether of sin unto death,
or of obedience unto righteousness?”
Romans 6:16 KJV
You should consider that of you want to do something your free to do it but also should believe what God said about the consequences of our actions
if we continue serving sin we’re going to die but it’s not Gods will he wants us to repent and live
“The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is
longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.”
2 Peter 3:9 KJV
he doesn’t force us to repent or keep sinning he’s given us a choice in Christ to have eternal life or squander it on this words pleasures[/QUOTE]
John 6:37 All that the Father gives me shall come to me; and him that comes to me I will in no wise cast out.
John 6:44 No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them...
Acts 2:23
“Him, being delivered
by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain.”
“In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him
who works all things according to the counsel of his will.” Ephesians 1:11
