Can We Really Exercise Free Will?

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Yes, Ezekiel 36 shows God restoring Israel for His name’s sake. But nothing in the passage says He gives new hearts to unbelievers so they can believe.
Believers do not have a heart of stone that needs replacing. Something stinks in studier's theology.

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Ezekiel 36 verses 25-26 I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and all your idols. I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.
 
But God never intended to "give his power in the Gospel" to any other than his covenant people whom He predestined to save. The proud world is not the recipient of God's grace. Christ came to save HIS people -- not the people OF this world!

Scripture’s order stands: God provides grace through His Gospel and Spirit > unbelievers must choose to believe or reject Him. Choose to believe > salvation.
 
Rufus.... Why do you hate the Holy Spirit so much?

Why do you have God's Word so much and love to death your man-made traditions?

Now...go run off and bow down at the altar of Studier's god...volition!
 
Pro tip: don't stone the ambassadors that He sends. And don't scorn the king who sends them.

And to the super-determinists I say: for pitys sake don't tamper with, distort or make forgeries of the message that the King gave the ambassadors.

Smiling (but don't like many of the emojis).
 
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Deuteronomy 30 v 6~ The LORD your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, so that you may love Him with all your heart and with all your soul, and live. :)
 
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Scripture’s order stands: God provides grace through His Gospel and Spirit > unbelievers must choose to believe or reject Him. Choose to believe > salvation.

But the point remains that God does not "provide grace" to the proud, which is only about 95% of the world -- give or take.... God only bestows grace to the HUMBLE! And humility is a byproduct of God's gift of the Fear of the Lord which he only promised to his covenant people.
 
There is a correlation of various Scripture that needs to be done!

I will try again.
Here is one Pastor Teacher that I know can perform such a task.

Exegetical Teaching

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No need, but thanks. Just as you believe scripture as a whole teaches this, I am convinced that scripture as a whole teaches that God doesn't simply allow man to make a choice, but altogether ensures that choice.
 
But the point remains that God does not "provide grace" to the proud, which is only about 95% of the world -- give or take.... God only bestows grace to the HUMBLE! And humility is a byproduct of God's gift of the Fear of the Lord which he only promised to his covenant people.
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John 3 verse 6, Romans 8 verse 7, Galatians 5 verse 17, 2 Timothy 3 verse 13, Romans 3 verse 18 ~ Flesh is born of flesh, but spirit is born of the Spirit. The mind of the flesh is hostile to God: It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. The flesh craves what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are opposed to each other. Evil men and imposters go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived. There is no fear of God before their eyes.
 
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But the point remains that God does not "provide grace" to the proud, which is only about 95% of the world -- give or take.... God only bestows grace to the HUMBLE! And humility is a byproduct of God's gift of the Fear of the Lord which he only promised to his covenant people.
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From James 4~ God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble. Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Humble yourselves before the Lord, and He will exalt you.
 
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Ezekiel 36 is God’s promise to renew His people - Israel in context, and in Christ, all who believe. It doesn’t say
unbelievers get new hearts so they can believe; it says God gives new hearts to those who,
by faith, have become His people
. Belief comes first, then the new heart.
It does not say what you claim, why do you lie about what Scripture says??? Your theology has people choosing
to believe with an incurably wicked heart. It's senseless. This transformation of replacing a "heart of stone"
with a "heart of flesh" is the very thing which enables one to love and obey God, and exercise faith.
 
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“Why do you call Me good?” Jesus replied. “No one is good except God alone. Mark ch. 10 verse 18 and Luke ch. 18 verse 19 “There is only One who is good.” Matthew ch. 19 verse 17b. There is no one who does good. fr Psalm ch. 14. There is no one righteous, not even one. Romans ch. 3 verse 10. They are corrupt; their ways are vile. There is no one who does good. All have turned away, they have together become corrupt; there is no one who does good, not even one. fr Psalm ch. 53 verses 1-3. Surely there is no righteous man on earth who does good and never sins. Ecclesiastes ch. 7 verse 20. For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.
 
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Our leading purveyor of fairy tales wrote yesterday that God did not intend for Israel to keep his Law perfectly. Instead, a thrice holy God whose eyes are too pure to even behold evil relaxed his holy and righteous standard by giving the Jews a little flexibility in how they were to keep his covenant of law. CV5 says God only expected that they keep it "in good faith", which in itself is more than an ironic statement since Israel's apostasy was a consequent of NO SAVING FAITH! Here's my first passage that proves that God's commands to Israel were totally unqualified -- no limitations were placed on Israel's duty to obey God perfectly.

Deut 5:28-33
28 The LORD heard you when you spoke to me and the LORD said to me, "I have heard what this people said to you. Everything they said was good. 29 Oh, that their hearts would be inclined to FEAR ME and keep ALL my commands ALWAYS, so that it might go well with them and their children forever!

30 "Go, tell them to return to their tents. 31 But you stay here with me so that I may give you all the commands, decrees and laws you are to teach them to follow in the land I am giving them to possess."

32 So be careful to do what the LORD your God has commanded you; do not turn aside to the right or to the left. 33 Walk in ALL the [NARROW]* way that the LORD your God has commanded you, so that you may live and prosper and prolong your days in the land that you will possess.
NIV

*Added for emphasis and clarity!

Does anyone see any qualified statements in the above that limits a Holy God's righteous expectations of his people? I don't. So, this passage alone proves irrefutably that the commands in the bible do not imply moral/spiritual ability to obey, but rather express man's moral DUTY (responsibility) towards God, as Solomon wrote in Eccl 12. God never, never, never in scripture lowers his righteous standards to accommodate foolish, wicked, vile evildoers.

Beware, everyone, of the wolves that come into this thread masquerading as sheep!
 
It does not say what you claim, why do you lie about what Scripture says??? Your theology has people choosing
to believe with an incurably wicked heart. It's senseless. This transformation of replacing a "heart of stone"
with a "heart of flesh" is the very thing which enables one to love and obey God, and exercise faith.

And the really sad part is that he is so self-deceived, he sincerely believes he's exegeting scripture! :rolleyes:
 
Why do you have God's Word so much and love to death your man-made traditions?

Now...go run off and bow down at the altar of Studier's god...volition!

Your god is hatred.
Can't think straight.

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1) to make payment for sin and, 2) to take those chosen by God for salvation out from the Law of sin and death.
This was satisfied by Christ when He completed His offering, once, for all - not "all" as in everyone
That is interesting to think I serve a God that requires Faith in Himself to be God.

So much for being All Everything and Sovereign.
 
No need, but thanks. Just as you believe scripture as a whole teaches this, I am convinced that scripture as a whole teaches that God doesn't simply allow man to make a choice, but altogether ensures that choice.

Go ahead.... If you wish? "Eat the fruit."

:LOL: .....
 
And the really sad part is that he is so self-deceived, he sincerely believes he's exegeting scripture! :rolleyes:
It's just more of the same: rewriting divinely inspired sacred Scriptures to suit his self-exalting theology.
 
Don't you know that faith also comes through being IN Christ? Did not the Son always trust in his Father? Could Jesus have been perfectly obedient to the Father apart from faith in and love for his Father? Could Jesus have pleased his Father apart from trusting in Him? Don't you know that Jesus is the Perfect Model for the Christian life?
The Son is God He trusted in Himself whether it's God in the Father, Ghost, or Son.
 
Naw not looking to argue thought we were in agreement . Just discussing Bible stuff in a public bible discussion forum . Been here for a couple years there’s always an argument somewhere going on here brother I don’t think I’ve ever seen a single day without arguments and some really pretty bitter ones actually take place .

i never have liked it either but it is a public open discussion forum so I concluded it seems like it’s going to occur because it’s a microcosm of the world and it’s pretty much everywhere we look on the world

But we can still discuss the Bible here peacefully for our own part those ignore buttons work wonders when harassment is involved it’s like the person no longer exists here when it’s used so it ends any harassment by them pretty much instantly
Ok m, I appreciate this, I'm not just sure why you would say some kind of enabling with a question mark at the end, after I had already shared my faith concerning enabling with you in another thread.

I thought why didn't you write something like how about all these enablings


For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.”
‭‭Romans‬ ‭1:16-17‬ ‭KJV‬‬

“And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.

He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved;

but he that believeth not shall be damned.”
‭‭Mark‬ ‭16:15-16‬ ‭KJV‬‬

“Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.”
‭‭John‬ ‭5:24‬ ‭KJV‬‬

It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.”
‭‭John‬ ‭6:63‬ ‭

Im not sure if you fully see enablings in all these passages, or not

But any kind of a message would be an enabling, if you see that within any message God relays has his will attached to it.

talking about his will also being the a will that can will life into existence.

His will also being something he wants for all,as in for all his children to return to him including the lost sir.

I can't see that when it's explained this way, as it was to me, there can be any doubt that there isn't something enabling within his message.

Dissociation of his will and spirit occurs within the message when people just look at the word you within the message.

Spiritual maturity also happen as we mature, when we seek the spirit for guidance. We get a spiritual answer, if we don't more often than not we give one based on our own thoughts.