Can We Really Exercise Free Will?

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this is Gethsemane; the Judge of all flesh wrestling between holiness and compassion
And sweating great drops of blood in the garden, agonizing over the solution to the dilemma of how to resolve the dire problem of the now wretched state of his bride.
 
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Nothing happened until after Adam ate.

it was probably 4 days later when he ate, while she died in the same day she ate, and he waited, the whole time in between, keeping her from going to the tree of life :unsure:

... because Passover is an 8 day festival and the second Adam did not lay down His life until the 4th day of it

conjecture yes, but not out of thin air.
 
no, that's definite:

Genesis 3:17​
thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife
We have gone over this already, bro, just a little while ago. Adam may not have said a word. You cannot call that a conversation.
No such thing is recorded in Scripture and you should at the very least be able to acknowledge that verifiable fact.


There is no definite conversation. You have imagined such and I call it what it is: conjecture.

You could write a whole play about it and would still all be conjecture.

Maybe it would be an award winning play.

Still conjecture.
 
she's definitely not fine when she talks to him - -

1 Timothy 2:14
the woman being deceived was in the transgression
More conjecture. That says nothing of her apparent condition to Adam when he hearkened unto the voice of his wife.
 
You mustn't ignore, dear bro, the very salient fact that FWers also reject, contradict, rewrite, and outright
deny a multitude of verse in order to cling to their vain philosophically based self-exalting theology.

Lay it out for us.

Give us chapter and verses you say we deny, so we can see for ourselves what you speak of so often.
Often - but never provide proof with providing Scripture.

Let us learn what you know, and what we have been failing to realize.

All you have been doing is saying something is so while slapping us down, but we have no way to know why.

How are we self exalting in our theology?

Please!? Give us the chapter and verses.
You may have done so in the past, but we were not here then to see what you keep concealing from us now.

Please....
 
We have gone over this already, bro, just a little while ago. Adam may not have said a word. You cannot call that a conversation.
No such thing is recorded in Scripture and you should at the very least be able to acknowledge that verifiable fact.


There is no definite conversation. You have imagined such and I call it what it is: conjecture.

You could write a whole play about it and would still all be conjecture.

Maybe it would be an award winning play.

Still conjecture.
Conjecture? Nope. It's blatantly obvious.
And the Bible is written in such an intentionally peculiar fashion so as to make it thus. Blatantly obvious.

No doubt @posthuman is right. Clear as a bell to me as well.
 
no, that's definite:

Genesis 3:17​
thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife


she's definitely not fine when she talks to him - -

1 Timothy 2:14
the woman being deceived was in the transgression

She did not need to have a conversation with Adam.
He had been there and had heard the conversation she had with the serpent.

6 When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye,
and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her
husband, who was with her, and he ate it
. 7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and
they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for
themselves
 
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yes God had 'given her to him' and he was responsible to keep her - - and God said to him, after his confession, 'because you listened to her voice'

so we know that when he confessed to God that she, to whom God had entrusted her, are, and then gave to him - - there was a space of time in between in which a conversation took place. that conversation was private between them and is not recorded for us.

we also know Adam was not deceived, so we know what she said to him was not deception. she did not try to trick him, and he knew everything the serpent said to her was lies. so we know she spoke the truth to him - and from her confession to God, we know also she knew when she spoke to her husband that she had been deceived.

since God says he listened to her, instead of to His command, we know that when he spoke of God having given her to him, he was not blaming her or blaming God. if he had been, God would have addressed those things in His judgment.
he was saying that he made his decision on the basis of his responsibility to her, so God judged him on the basis of putting his responsibility to her above his responsibility to God - - essentially, having left his Father in order to cleave to his wife.


what did she say to him?

imagine you have just eaten poison, you know you were horribly deceived, you know you are dying, you know you cannot be cured, and you know and you come to your husband. he is not poisoned, he is not confused or deceived, he is not dying.
you don't know how much time you have but the longer time goes on, the more your flesh and your mind corrupt.
what do you say to him?

If Adam was not deceived by satan it means he willfully gave his soul to the devil.


The only sense that titus can make that Adam was not deceived, is that Adam was not deceived by satan,

Which makes it's more of sin because that means he witnessed his wife get deceived said nothing, stood there then watch his wife eat, then he willfully and knowingly disobeyed God not being deceived, he ate which means he willfully knowing caused the fall of eve and himself.
which is reflected by God saying you listened to her, which was reflected in his lifetime punishment, Adam was given a lifetime punishment until his time has come to give up the ghost on earth.

The only thing he may not have known is he was had also causing the fall of all mankind.

That as far as how much he could not have known.

So he was not deceived by satan, but he deceived himself in order to protect his wife then, as that's only reason he could have ate then, because if he was not deceived by satan then that means he knew he was going to die if he ate.

As satan said you will not surely die to eve , which is satan saying you will surely live.

So if Adam was not deceived then that means he witnessed this and let his wife die, and then willfully let himself die. Which means if Adam was not decueved he knew he was going to keep on living but die, which means he decueved himself then when he died

Then he was not deceived, but yet he then willfully calls his wife nothing and blames her.

Which God takes no notice of because he knew also he had not been deceived by satan and then listened to both of them.

Which makes it more of sin as he willfully listed to satan and Disobeyed God.

Also not being deceived means that adam knew the serpent was satan.

Which could have been known by the breath of life that lived in him.

So he was not deceived, but yet he made a worthless confession and there was no repentance what so ever as he was now owned by satan and so was his wife. As he was not deceived by Satan which means he willfully gave his soul to the devil

What God must have done was put a hedge of protection over both of them.
 
If Adam was not deceived by satan it means he willfully gave his soul to the devil.


The only sense that titus can make that Adam was not deceived, is that Adam was not deceived by satan,

Which makes it's more of sin because that means he witnessed his wife get deceived said nothing, stood there then watch his wife eat, then he willfully and knowingly disobeyed God not being deceived, he ate which means he willfully knowing caused the fall of eve and himself.
which is reflected by God saying you listened to her, which was reflected in his lifetime punishment, Adam was given a lifetime punishment until his time has come to give up the ghost on earth.

The only thing he may not have known is he was had also causing the fall of all mankind.

That as far as how much he could not have known.

So he was not deceived by satan, but he deceived himself in order to protect his wife then, as that's only reason he could have ate then, because if he was not deceived by satan then that means he knew he was going to die if he ate.

As satan said you will not surely die to eve , which is satan saying you will surely live.

So if Adam was not deceived then that means he witnessed this and let his wife die, and then willfully let himself die. Which means if Adam was not decueved he knew he was going to keep on living but die, which means he decueved himself then when he died

Then he was not deceived, but yet he then willfully calls his wife nothing and blames her.

Which God takes no notice of because he knew also he had not been deceived by satan and then listened to both of them.

Which makes it more of sin as he willfully listed to satan and Disobeyed God.

Also not being deceived means that adam knew the serpent was satan.

Which could have been known by the breath of life that lived in him.

So he was not deceived, but yet he made a worthless confession and there was no repentance what so ever as he was now owned by satan and so was his wife. As he was not deceived by Satan which means he willfully gave his soul to the devil

What God must have done was put a hedge of protection over both of them.

Being deceived means (willfully) believing a lie and the father of lies, murdering truth (John 8:42-44).
 
Being deceived means (willfully) believing a lie and the father of lies, murdering truth (John 8:42-44).
the breath of life in him in adam was not decieved to disobey God

The breath of life also knows satan

The breath of life is God.

God put a hedge of protection over Adam and eve after Adam did and sold his soul to the devil which is reflected in job as satan said you have a hedge of protection over Job.
 
Being deceived means (willfully) believing a lie and the father of lies, murdering truth (John 8:42-44).
he Adam was not decieved by satan to


When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye,
and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her
husband, who was with her,
 
Day 3 by the day @reneweddaybyday

The will of the Jewish people people was to not to not do any work in a Saturday.

But Jesus had had to go against this will of his people to change that will for a reason, (which was ? )

would you agree he went against the will of his own people here ?
 
there's absolutely no point in saying what you would do or why was a tree of death in the Garden.

There no mention that tree of knowledge caused there death.

And theres no point in asking me what I would of done, as it was a spiritual matter that only could have been read at the time. But it can be read quite clearly through scripture, and the whole Bible

The bible is clear on the matter that all of mankinds nature is held to ransome because of the fall

Which means the tree of knowledge didn't cause there death, the act of selling there soul, nature to the devil did will willfully disobeying God and willfully accepting satans death offering. (Which is why God has to go against our very limited will) , and as much as you don't like to hear it' m, this is what happens as we have a spiritual warfare battle we are engaged in, where satan came to steal the souls of the innocence

Jesus came to be the saviour of our souls to win our freedom back, by conquering death and defeating sin in the flesh, which means he sacrificed his life to pay the debt that Satan held mankinds nature ransome by, as Satan held that ransome by Having Adam sell his all of mankinds nature to the devil.

This is the whole foundational belief of Christianity that has been in existence since the gospel was preached, the battle to win souls back for all mankind.

As to why Jesus came, its also the reason why Christian church father for centuries have preached the gospel, and you just want to tell us, your not going to like this but what your believing is false
On the bases that Adam was a hero for eating the fruit and protecting his wife, well it's very admiral of you to protect a woman by sacrificing your soul, but unfortunately it's a very stupid one
 
She did not need to have a conversation with Adam.
He had been there and had heard the conversation she had with the serpent.

6 When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye,
and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her
husband, who was with her, and he ate it
. 7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and
they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for
themselves
Did everyone do their homework lol?
The English translation is woefully inadequate here, as it commonly is when dealing with the Hebrew.

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l 9997/le ("with regard to")
m 4480/min ("from")

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