Can We Really Exercise Free Will?

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Rufus said:
Anyone ever tell you that your question mark-laden posts portray you as clueless little kid who never learned to construct coherent sentences?

And I don't hate FWers. And what makes you think that I don't understand non-Reformed soteriological views? There's nothing new under sun with your particular brand of heresy.
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Well?

Let see if you have it understood correctly.
What is my non-Reformed soteriological view?

I do not think you do.
You see a few keywords and then leap to hear no more.

So, what is my non-Reformed soteriological view?

Without answering that question?
There is no chance of you showing me correction.

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Rufus said:
How could his disciples "always knew" since they need Life within them to know God!

So, tell, Mr. Einstein, in a sentence or two, preferably without any of your misplaced question marks, what you think the warp 'n' woof of biblical Christianity is.
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Some of your crew laid claim that they were not of this world before they were born.
It is they who are confusing you.
I am just repeating what I was told.
I believe, if you ask Magenta, you might find out what I am getting at.
 
Genez said:
Well?

Let see if you have it understood correctly.
What is my non-Reformed soteriological view?

I do not think you do.
You see a few keywords and then leap to hear no more.

So, what is my non-Reformed soteriological view?

Without answering that question?
There is no chance of you showing me correction.

.......
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you would make a good riddler m, that's for sure 😁 🤐
 
Genez said:
Some of your crew laid claim that they were not of this world before they were born.
It is they who are confusing you.
I am just repeating what I was told.
I believe, if you ask Magenta, you might find out what I am getting at.
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all life returns to him. His life is not of this world m. But what's happens then ?

It not a riddle either.
 
sawdust said:
And deism has nothing to do with what I said.

Please go and understand what was said within the context of what I was responding to.
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well you either said it or you didn't looking back now, I'm not bothered really.

People who can't recognise God illuminates there ways, is that something you agree upon to.
 
Jordon said:
well you either said it or you didn't looking back now, I'm not bothered really.

People who can't recognise God illuminates there ways, is that something you agree upon to.
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I wasn't speaking of God. I was speaking of the human will and how it functions.

So again, what you said had nothing to do with what I was talking about, you threw in a red herring.
 
Jordon said:
well you either said it or you didn't looking back now, I'm not bothered really.

People who can't recognise God illuminates there ways, is that something you agree upon to.
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God can not illuminate the ways of all believers unless they accept sound doctrine.
Sound doctrine would at times rebuke them and correct them. Most do not seek
out sound doctrine.

God does not illuminate the lives of who walk outside of sound doctrine.

Here is why that is so.

For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. ​
Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great ​
number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear, because ​
they are self-centered. 2 Timothy 4:3​


Without accepting sound doctrine, having God illuminate your life would be impossible.

Here is why that is so.


For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways,”​
declares the Lord." Isaiah 55:8​
​
Impossible!​
​
Here is what we find ourselves with today.​
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For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. ​
Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great ​
number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear, because ​
they are self-centered. 2 Timothy 4:3​
​
So your gang can all agree with you all you like.
If you fail to find sound doctrine?
You will walk in illusion, not illumination from God.

Telling ya straight.
 
sawdust said:
I wasn't speaking of God. I was speaking of the human will and how it functions.

So again, what you said had nothing to do with what I was talking about, you threw in a red herring.
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His purpose is to obstruct and to frustrate you, as to tire you out if he could.

If he knows he confused and frustrated you with his nonsense, he will have accomplished his goal.
 
Can the NEW contradict the OLD? Does GOD change or does He not?

Deut 30

15 See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil; 16 In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it. 17 But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them; 18 I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it. 19 I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live: 20 That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
 
Genez said:
His purpose is to obstruct and to frustrate you, as to tire you out if he could.

If he knows he confused and frustrated you with his nonsense, he will have accomplished his goal.
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like I said you will cover it up.

It's your common theme to pass the buck, and it's also your common theme to have someone you can use as your guinea pig to cover up.

Well you can cover you up all you like sir, but I'm not your little guinea pig.
 
Genez said:
God can not illuminate the ways of all believers unless they accept sound doctrine.
Sound doctrine would at times rebuke them and correct them. Most do not seek
out sound doctrine.

God does not illuminate the lives of who walk outside of sound doctrine.

Here is why that is so.

For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. ​
Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great ​
number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear, because ​
they are self-centered. 2 Timothy 4:3​


Without accepting sound doctrine, having God illuminate your life would be impossible.

Here is why that is so.


For my thoughts are not your thoughts,​
neither are your ways my ways,”​
declares the Lord." Isaiah 55:8​
​
Impossible!​
​
Here is what we find ourselves with today.​
​
For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. ​
Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great ​
number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear, because ​
they are self-centered. 2 Timothy 4:3​
​
So your gang can all agree with you all you like.
If you fail to find sound doctrine?
You will walk in illusion, not illumination from God.

Telling ya straight.
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yeah where all in end times again yeah and your the person to lead us yep .
 
sawdust said:
I wasn't speaking of God. I was speaking of the human will and how it functions.

So again, what you said had nothing to do with what I was talking about, you threw in a red herring.
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Red herrings, i still don't see you admitting your error
 
Jordon said:
like I said you will cover it up.

It's your common theme to pass the buck, and it's also your common theme to have someone you can use as your guinea pig to cover up.

Well you can cover you up all you like sir, but I'm not your little guinea pig.
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Jordon.... what ever you say.
 
Jordon said:
Red herrings, i still don't see you admitting your error
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Spell it out then.

There might not have been an error.
So we can have no idea what you think was.
So? Copy and paste what you think was an error.
That way we can know.

For all we know?
You are seeing things wrong.
Or, maybe, saw a typo the other did not see.

Come on! Produce the evidence.
 
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