Can We Really Exercise Free Will?
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More gobbledygook.
2 different concepts.
Man is accountable before God.
It is given to some to believe on Christ.
If it wasn't given unto some to believe, man would still be accountable.
Two concepts. Both true.
The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness.
Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone
to come to repentance." 2 Peter 3:9
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So if God leaves the wicked to their own evil devices to do what is right in their own eyes and they die and go to hell, their excuse is what precisely: That God gave them totally free reign to freely choose to live according to their ungodly desires? It's God's fault that they're in hell?
@Rufus buddy, take a look out of your window and you will see plenty of men who CHOSE to be wicked.
Day in, day out, to the max.
Others, CHOOSE otherwise.
That's because every human being intuitively knows he's a sinner. Even the devil Judas knew!
Romans 7 v 14, John 8 v 34, Jeremiah 13 v 23, Romans 3 v 10 ~ We know that the law is spiritual; but
I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I tell you, everyone who sins is a slave to sin.” Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Neither are you able to do good - you who are accustomed to doing evil. There is no one righteous, not even one.
The Pelagian heretics abound in here who refuse to accept what God's revealed written Word has to say about man...
All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God (Romans 3 v 23). There is no one who does not sin (from 1 Kings 8 v 46). No one living is righteous before You (from Psalm 143 v 2). If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us (1 John 1 v 8). Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I tell you, everyone who sins is a slave to sin.” (John 8 v 34) And this is the verdict: The Light has come into the world, but men loved the darkness rather than the Light because their deeds were evil. Everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come into the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed (John 3 v 19-20). The heart is incurably wicked (Jeremiah 17 v 9). What is evil? Sin is evil. Stop sugar coating it. All men sin, and commit evil in the sight of God. There are none good, no, not one! A bad tree cannot bring forth good fruit.
All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God (Romans 3 v 23). There is no one who does not sin (from 1 Kings 8 v 46). No one living is righteous before You (from Psalm 143 v 2). If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us (1 John 1 v 8). Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I tell you, everyone who sins is a slave to sin.” (John 8 v 34) And this is the verdict: The Light has come into the world, but men loved the darkness rather than the Light because their deeds were evil. Everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come into the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed (John 3 v 19-20). The heart is incurably wicked (Jeremiah 17 v 9). What is evil? Sin is evil. Stop sugar coating it. All men sin, and commit evil in the sight of God. There are none good, no, not one! A bad tree cannot bring forth good fruit.
HIH must have been reading out of her favored satanic version of the scriptures. Satan, too, loves to add or subtract from God's Word.
So, that would mean that sinners can know what the Gospel is presenting to them without needing to be regenerated to know.
Oh...so now you're a restroom expert? Better pull your head out of the toilet bowl before you drown. And if you make it in time, don't forget to flush your contaminants down the bowl.
He also loves having dupes that do such things, who can not see themselves as the one's doing it.