Can We Really Exercise Free Will?

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God's grace power to enable souls, leaves many believers with impression that they do have free will.
For grace places us in a position to be able to use our will without a problem.


But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not without effect. ​
No, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me. ​
​
1 Corinthians 15:10​


I wonder how many excel unknowingly by grace at doing something well?
And take credit to themselves for doing it?


On the appointed day Herod, wearing his royal robes, sat on his throne and delivered a public address ​
to the people. ​
​
They shouted, “This is the voice of a god, not of a man.” ​
​
Immediately, because Herod did not give praise to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, ​
and he was eaten by worms and died.​
​
Acts 12:21-23​


it is not as simple as some assume it must be.
 
cv5 said:
Wrong again little buddy :):):).
You proffer yet another awful malignant mess, a total failure to rightly divide the truth that leaves you guilty of hoaxing rather than teaching, which is your calling card and has been for a long, long time. And yet another brazen example of your dreadful Biblical illiteracy on display for all to see.

You see little @Cameron143 buddy, this "new heart" so noted in Ezekiel 36 ONLY occurs SUBSEQUENT to a peculiar phenomenon FIRST OF ALL occurring. This once and for all phenomenon being a plea and petition issuing from the HEART, and FREE WILL and VOLITION of the Israelites, who are suffering the prophesied future tribulation (:):):)*****that you also fail to understand****:):):)).

[Hos 5:14 KJV]
For I [will be] unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, [even] I, will tear and go away; I will take away, and none shall rescue [him].

[Hos 5:15 KJV]
I will go [and] return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.

[Hos 6:1 KJV]
Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.

[Hos 6:2 KJV]
After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.

[Hos 6:3 KJV]
Then shall we know, [if] we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter [and] former rain unto the earth.

Luk 13:35
Behold, your house is left unto you desolate: and verily I say unto you, Ye shall not see me, until the time come when ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.

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Another day, another hideously ignorant Calvinist boondoggle hoax laid to rest :);):);).
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Sorry little buddy, but it clearly says the new heart is what leads to obedience, and that no calls Jesus Lord except by the Holy Spirit.
Another post, another Arminian ignorant boondoggle hoax.
 
Cameron143 said:
It states the new heart is what allows obedience. Read it.
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Not in this verse, it does not and you cannot just tie verses together because of a similar word... the other verse is after faith not before.

This verse is about believing before regeneration, you know the correct soteriology, accepted by all legitimate non Calvinist Biblical scholars!!!!

that ***if G1437*** you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.

ἐὰν ἀγαπᾶτέ με, τὰς ἐντολάς μου τηρήσετε. (John 14:15) "If you love me (and you might), you will keep my commandments."
 
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Genez said:
All unbelievers have no free will.
If they did?
They could master their sin nature in their flesh on their own.
They can't.
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That's not what free will is. Free will is the choice to seek help from God to master their sin nature, which is what the holy spirit does.
 
Genez said:
I am going to love to see the big change in you after the is done with evaluating you.

But, fear not.
He will wipe away every tear.
We might even end up being friends...
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Incoherence is your specialty, heh?
 
Genez said:
God's grace power to enable souls, leaves many believers with impression that they do have free will.
For grace places us in a position to be able to use our will without a problem.


But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not without effect. ​
No, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me. ​
​
1 Corinthians 15:10​


I wonder how many excel unknowingly by grace at doing something well?
And take credit to themselves for doing it?


On the appointed day Herod, wearing his royal robes, sat on his throne and delivered a public address ​
to the people. ​
​
They shouted, “This is the voice of a god, not of a man.” ​
​
Immediately, because Herod did not give praise to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, ​
and he was eaten by worms and died.​
​
Acts 12:21-23​


it is not as simple as some assume it must be.
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I believe the gospel the power to save says your soul has hope but your flesh has will m 🙂
 
cv5 said:
Wrong again little buddy :):):).
You proffer yet another awful malignant mess, a total failure to rightly divide the truth that leaves you guilty of hoaxing rather than teaching, which is your calling card and has been for a long, long time. And yet another brazen example of your dreadful Biblical illiteracy on display for all to see.

You see little @Cameron143 buddy, this "new heart" so noted in Ezekiel 36 ONLY occurs SUBSEQUENT to a peculiar phenomenon FIRST OF ALL occurring. This once and for all phenomenon being a plea and petition issuing from the HEART, and FREE WILL and VOLITION of the Israelites, who are suffering the prophesied future tribulation (:):):)*****that you also fail to understand****:):):)).

[Hos 5:14 KJV]
For I [will be] unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, [even] I, will tear and go away; I will take away, and none shall rescue [him].

[Hos 5:15 KJV]
I will go [and] return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.

[Hos 6:1 KJV]
Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.

[Hos 6:2 KJV]
After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.

[Hos 6:3 KJV]
Then shall we know, [if] we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter [and] former rain unto the earth.

Luk 13:35
Behold, your house is left unto you desolate: and verily I say unto you, Ye shall not see me, until the time come when ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.

**********************************************************************************

Another day, another hideously ignorant Calvinist boondoggle hoax laid to rest :);):);).
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Ezekiel 18:31 Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
 
Believer08 said:
Total and complete garbage.
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You forgot the context.



All unbelievers have no free will.​
If they did?​
They could master their sin nature in their flesh on their own.​
They can't. ​

I was speaking in regards to having free will in that sense!
In retrospect I could have worded it differently as to avoid anyone jumping to conclusions.

More like this...

All unbelievers have no free will in regards to their sin nature.​
If they did?​
They could master their sin nature in their flesh on their own and stop feeling desires to sin. ​
They can't.​
​
.​
 
Cameron143 said:
Sorry little buddy, but it clearly says the new heart is what leads to obedience, and that no calls Jesus Lord except by the Holy Spirit.
Another post, another Arminian ignorant boondoggle hoax.
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Wrong again little buddy. REPENTANCE from the HEART must come FIRST, which is in fact the qualifying requirement for entry in the New Covenant. THEN and only then do God's promised blessings flow.

You are utterly clueless in terms of accurate Bible knowledge in every possible dimension and metric, and certainly in the running for the most Biblically illiterate person on this board. You would think it impossible to be 100% wrong 100% of the time, nevertheless, you have achieved the impossible in this regard.

And BTW, your entire grasp of eschatology is likewise an appalling disaster. It cannot possibly be more erroneous, and is so at every point.
 
cv5 said:
Wrong again little buddy. REPENTANCE from the HEART must come FIRST, which is in fact the qualifying requirement for entry in the New Covenant. THEN and only then do God's promised blessings flow.

You are utterly clueless in terms of accurate Bible knowledge in every possible dimension and metric, and certainly in the running for the most Biblically illiterate person on this board. You would think it impossible to be 100% wrong 100% of the time, nevertheless, you have achieved the impossible in this regard.

And BTW, your entire grasp of eschatology is likewise an appalling disaster. It cannot possibly be more erroneous, and is so at every point.
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you still have left out the lords faith gives you repentance
 
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