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Salvation is a gift from God that He never removes. I believe that entirely. But if there is a such thing as Free Will, then there has to be a point if we wanted to exercise it, God would have to honor that. If we wanted to leave God, even knowing God never leaves us, He must grant Free Will to leave Him or that would be unjust of God.
Because the Bible tells me so:
Colossians 1:21-23
[21] And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled [22] In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight: [23] If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel...
Notice:
Reconciled, if
Not:
Reconciled no matter what you do...
I’m so glad I have the word of God:
Psalm 119:104-105
Through Your precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way. Your word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
Colossians 1:21-23
[21] And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled [22] In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight: [23] If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel...
Notice:
Reconciled, if
Not:
Reconciled no matter what you do...
I’m so glad I have the word of God:
Psalm 119:104-105
Through Your precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way. Your word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
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Jeremiah 18:9-10
[9] And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it; [10] If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.
Numbers 14:30,34
[30] Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun. [34] After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise.
[9] And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it; [10] If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.
Numbers 14:30,34
[30] Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun. [34] After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise.
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I cannot undo the fact that I am my father's daughter.
There is distinction between what I can choose and what I can actually do.
So really your whole argument is moot, because it outside reality, God chastises and disciplines His children even in their wrong thinking... you have no free will against that either.
New King James Version
It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
Hebrews 10:31
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There is distinction between what I can choose and what I can actually do.
So really your whole argument is moot, because it outside reality, God chastises and disciplines His children even in their wrong thinking... you have no free will against that either.
New King James Version
It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
Hebrews 10:31
END of DEBATE
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