Can We Really Exercise Free Will?

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I chose the monkey with glasses because it represents my present state of having the Spirit living and working in me, but simultaneously still stuck in a body doomed for destruction. Transforming me into a temporary status for living for Christ in the devil's world.

The Resurrection body all Christians will receive at the Rapture will make all Christians, as they now are manifested, appear to be like mere monkeys in comparison.

You mean just like your earthly "freewill" will look like in the new eternal order?
 
At least her companion is not wearing a necklace! o_O
Oh, an occult magic crystal ball like B_H imagined a simple single pearl to be!

These perverts see what they want to see, and try to convince others their delusional hallucinations are real.
 
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All you FWers are a bunch of gutless wusses! None of you answered my question in 28,903, so here it is again. Maybe one of you will find a backbone! :rolleyes:

I have another question for you FWers: Would this world be better off with more or fewer born again Christians in it who help with God's work of restraining evil? Think before you answer.
 
But apparently NOT with spiritual ears, he didn't!
Says....Rufus.

Adam was created sinless.
By default, he was capable.
He simply chose not to be.


Angels are more spiritual than any man is.
Yet? Even they have failed as well.


Job 4:17-19​
‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God?
Can even a strong man be more pure than his Maker?
If God places no trust in his servants,
if he charges his angels with error,
how much more those who live in houses of clay,
whose foundations are in the dust,
who are crushed more readily than a moth!

.....
 
Oh, an occult magic crystal ball like B_H imagined a simple single pearl to be!

These perverts see what they want to see, and try to convince others their delusional hallucinations are real.

Yet, what bothers you.
Is what we do see as not delusional hallucinations.

Keep stalling, sister.
You got another ten feet behind you before you back into that wall.

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When Romans 3:10-12, said...

As it is written:
None is righteous, no, not one;
no one understands;
no one seeks for God.
All have turned aside; together they have become worthless;
no one does good,
not even one.”

Key phrase!

All have turned aside; together they have become worthless.

It does not say....

All have turned aside; together they have always been worthless.

They made themselves become something worthless by resisting the drawing of God.

Romans 3:10-12 is commentary on what becomes of the self righteous unbeliever who resisted the drawing of God, and continued trying to be what they considered to be good as to earn salvation. It is a commentary of the state of what those religious Jews made of themselves when that passage was written.
So they made themselves worthless. They did not come into this world as worthless creatures.
So all doesn't mean all! Yet when we read "God so loved the world" that means all.
It's a good thing we have FWers to keep things straight!
 
Yep if your not imagening his children are witches your imagining his children will be in the lake of fire.

I am not imagining anything. I am dealing with the principle of something.

I would never imagine any of his children will be in the Lake of Fire.

You are still too fragmented!
You are still missing the truth we need to learn to think with!

Jesus told us bluntly that some of His children will act like someone who will be in the Lake of Fire!

Jesus turned and said to Peter,
“Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me;
you do not have in mind the concerns of God, but the things of men.”



Matthew 16:23
 
Yet, what bothers you.
Is what we do see as not delusional hallucinations.

Keep stalling, sister.
You got another ten feet behind you before you back into that wall.

........


Read your response but also saw the accusation of @Bible_Highlighter being called a pervert, that is a serious allegation, how is that allowed. sigh.
 
So they made themselves worthless. They did not come into this world as worthless creatures.
So all doesn't mean all! Yet when we read "God so loved the world" that means all.
It's a good thing we have FWers to keep things straight!
My Bible says they come out of the womb speaking lies ... but oh wait a minute... some
don't believe the Bible. Maybe he believes evolution instead like he is here does.


My Bible says they come out of the womb speaking lies ... but oh wait a minute...
some don't believe the Bible. Maybe he believes evolution instead like he is does.


Psalm 58 verse 3 The wicked are estranged from the womb; the liars go astray from birth.

Psalm 14 verse 3
All have turned away, they have together become corrupt; there is no one who does good, not even one.


Psalm 51 verse 5 Surely I was brought forth in iniquity; I was sinful when my mother conceived me.

Psalm 52 verse 3 You love evil more than good, falsehood more than speaking truth. Selah

Psalm 53 verse 3
All have turned away, they have together become corrupt; there is no one who does good, not even one.


Isaiah 48 verse 8
You have never heard; you have never understood; for a long time your ears have not
been open. For I knew how deceitful you are; you have been called a rebel from birth.


Job 14 verse 4 Who can bring out clean from unclean? No one!

Job 15 verse 14
What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?


Proverbs 22 verse 15
Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.


John 3 verse 3 Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again.”

Romans 3 verse 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Romans 5 verse 12 Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and
death through sin, so also death was passed on to all men, because all sinned.


Ecclesiastes 7 verse 20 Surely there is no righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.

Romans 3 verse 10 As it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one."

Ephesians 2 verse 3 All of us also lived among them at one time, fulfilling the cravings of our flesh
and indulging its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature children of wrath.


Jeremiah 17 verse 9 The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?

1 John 1 verse 10 If we say we have not sinned, we make Him out to be a liar, and His word is not in us.
 
So they made themselves worthless. They did not come into this world as worthless creatures.
So all doesn't mean all! Yet when we read "God so loved the world" that means all.
It's a good thing we have FWers to keep things straight!

Not "free willers."

But ....

"Freed" willers.

The human will, made free by grace.
Freed to choose about what God gave us the grace to decide about that God wants a decision for.

Grace unlocks the ball and chain that our wills had been born into.

The TULIP'ers keep seeing irresistible grace as God dive-bombing us into salvation.
 
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Read your response but also saw the accusation of @Bible_Highlighter being called a pervert, that is a serious allegation, how is that allowed. sigh.
How is it you and others are allowed to blaspheme God, calling Him a rapist and other things as well???

Did you miss all of B_H's hallucinations and false accusations he posted as facts?

They were nothing more than the projection of his perverted male fantasies.
 
Irresistible grace is having God raping the volition of a man.
Another God blasphemer revealed through your idolization of free will.

You are more disgusting than I knew...

Perhaps he is here will defend your perversions as well.

It certainly would be no surprise if she did.

I am finding out more and more how this idol of yours causes you to bear false witness even against God.
 
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Another God blasphemer revealed through your idolization of free will.

You are more disgusting than I knew...

Perhaps he is here will defend your perversions as well.

It certainly would be no surprise if she did.

I am finding out more and more how this idol of yours causes you to bear false witness even against God.

God works in mysterious ways...

To the pure, you show yourself pure, and to the morally corrupt, you appear to be perverse.

Psalm 18:26
 
Irresistible grace is having God raping the volition of a man.

That is the whole point of the Bible narrative to tell people to receive salvation willingly.

I say to you that likewise there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine just persons who need no repentance.
Luke 15:7

Why would there be joy over one sinner who repents if God's grace is irresistible.

Another "system" epic fail.
 
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That is the whole point of the Bible narrative to tell people to receive salvation willingly.

I say to you that likewise there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine just persons who need no repentance.
Luke 15:7

Why would there be joy over one sinner who repents if God's grace is irresistible.

Anther "system" epic fail.
You don't even believe God is required in the process of coming to believe, so what do you know about any of it??? The fact of the matter is that you contradict and deny a multitude of Scriptures. You can't even get the whole point of the gospel narrative correct.
 
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