Can We Really Exercise Free Will?

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Cameron143 said:
Why?
Did you receive life when you were born? Or at conception? Did you know that you were alive at conception? You were alive long before you knew you were alive. If this is so for natural birth, why is it different for spiritual birth?
Romans 1:20 tells us the invisible things of God are understood by the things that are made. Why doesn't natural birth which is seen tell us about spiritual birth which is not seen.
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Human life at birth, biological life at conception, spiritual life at regeneration.
 
Genez said:
Not wanting to open a can of worms....

But, Because of the lack of proper exegetical study and teaching, it is VERY easy to not only assume something.
But, also have a vast majority of believers agreeing with you when you are not understanding what's there in the Scriptures.

Without going into detail at this time.
Just the conclusions will be given.

At conception was the beginning of biological life.
At birth, is when God breathed our soul into the completed body.

God gives the soul.
Our parents only provided the body.
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Scripture?
 
Cameron143 said:
You aren't human at conception?
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Our humanity is to be found in the soul, something only God can create. It is invisible and I did not become a living soul until I was born and took my first breath. (living soul requires breathing, one doesn't breathe in the womb)
 
sawdust said:
Our humanity is to be found in the soul, something only God can create. It is invisible and I did not become a living soul until I was born and took my first breath. (living soul requires breathing, one doesn't breathe in the womb)
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So abortion is okay because the baby has no soul?
 
Magenta said:
That is the only logical conclusion from such a position. Despicable! The life of the flesh is in the blood.
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I'm interested in learning the different perspectives, but if the soul doesn't come until birth, it seems to me it hasn't acquired the image of God yet.
 
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Rosemaryx said:
Psalm 139:13
For You formed my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother’s womb.
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Jeremiah 1:5a “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you... "

Isaiah 49:1
Listen to Me, O islands; pay attention, O distant peoples: The LORD
called Me from the womb; from the body of My mother He named Me.

Galatians 1:15
But when God, who set me apart from my mother’s womb and called me by His grace, was pleased

Isaiah 44:2
This is the word of the LORD, your Maker, who formed you from the womb and who
will help you: “Do not be afraid, O Jacob My servant, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.

Job 31:15
Did not He who made me in the womb also make them? Did not the same One form us in the womb?

Luke 1:15
for he will be great in the sight of the Lord. He shall never take wine or strong
drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit even from his mother’s womb.

Isaiah 49:1,5
Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me
from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name…
 
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Magenta said:
Jeremiah 1:5a “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you... "

Isaiah 49:1
Listen to Me, O islands; pay attention, O distant peoples: The LORD
called Me from the womb; from the body of My mother He named Me.

Galatians 1:15
But when God, who set me apart from my mother’s womb and called me by His grace, was pleased

Isaiah 44:2
This is the word of the LORD, your Maker, who formed you from the womb and who
will help you: “Do not be afraid, O Jacob My servant, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.

Job 31:15
Did not He who made me in the womb also make them? Did not the same One form us in the womb?

Luke 1:15
for he will be great in the sight of the Lord. He shall never take wine or strong
drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit even from his mother’s womb.

Isaiah 49:1,5
Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me
from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name…
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2 Timothy 2:19
But God’s firm foundation stands, bearing this seal: “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let everyone who names the name of the Lord depart from iniquity.”

How wonderful God knows who are His Amen:)...
 
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