Luke 16:31
But he said to him, ‘If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be persuaded even if someone rises from the dead.’”
Can We Really Exercise Free Will?
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Luke 16:31
But he said to him, ‘If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be persuaded even if someone rises from the dead.’”
Jer 29:13
And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.
Jhn 5:39
Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.
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Well, it appear that we have at least SOME successful students who have matriculated.
BTW, all of the 20-odd years of Paul's massive training effort back when he was a pharisee was only BACKGROUND MATERIAL
that he needed for his commission that came later! 20 years man.....day in and day out.
1Co 4:1
Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.
To properly receive the information that the teacher properly conveys. Im not saying there aren’t bad students. A good student has to want to learn.
Acts 17:11
Now these people were more noble-minded than those in Thessalonica, for they received the word with great eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.
@Jordon I do sincerely thank you. I went back and was trying to find you what you wanted and found great studies that I have become too familiar with and found nuggets that are just wonderful.
The Lord Jesus Christ gives us all the privilege and opportunity to share in His victory!......What a wonderful Savior!
https://gbible.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/111608.pdf
of course he does that not the question at hand sir.
The question at hand is seeing how a genuine professor with an academic teaches about free will to his class room of students, with students in the class room
I'm asking for such a sermon on YouTube, do you have one.
@ Jordan I gave you one. If I keep going, this is the end:
Give me a professor that is wearing one red sneaker and a black boot with a white lace that teaches in a classroom with 200 seats and only 87.4% of those seats are filled. And The 87.4% have one pencil, a 2018 i-pad and all have the same birthday.
We either want the truth or we don't.
The Lord Jesus Christ gives us all the privilege and opportunity to share in His victory!......What a wonderful Savior!
Amen that's the plan!
Thiers no need to get yourself in twist if you haven't got what I ask for, then just say so.
Thanks @Jordon. I have no Ill will towards anyone. FREEDOM in Christ is one of my passions.
Our definitions of classroom and professors are probably different?
John Lennox is a brilliant professor, and my view of a classroom is students attending his lectures.......No matter the venue.
just started to watch the sermon, and I had to switch it of straight away.
John lenox is dealing with people who believe, because of nutjobs telling them, some people get created with a deterministic will, the others don't.
John lenox immediately states people don't even know what consciousness is or energy and states there many things we dont know about God.
Again this gives me no confidence as mans will is fully known by his word. He should have immediately addressed the truth, instead he went down a rabbit trail
Sorry I have no confidence in John lenox.
1 st thing is he should have said is nobody is created with a determined will by God, then he should of said man's free is corrupted, we are created with an inherent will
Then he should of said everyone is predestined to receive a calling by God RC sproul does.
Sorry he's not my cup of tea looks more like a mathematician, who's more interested in science and thinks his knowledge of science answers free will.
2 Tim 4:3
For the time will come when they will not tolerate sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance with their own desires,
His word, this world and this very thread testify of our God given freewill.
Jeremiah 7:24-26
Yet they did not listen or incline their ear, but they followed the stubborn inclinations of their own evil hearts. They went backward and not forward. / From the day your fathers came out of the land of Egypt until this day, I have sent you all My servants the prophets again and again. / Yet they would not listen to Me or incline their ear, but they stiffened their necks and did more evil than their fathers.
That's funny coz sound doctrine from someone who specialises in the will of God has been rejected.
John lenox doesn't even have an academic degree in religion his degrees gained where in mathematics and bioethics.
Rc Sproul had an academic degree in theology and philosophy.
My question still stands neither you or @cv5 have provided a classroom study from a professor with an academic degree in religion, with a lecture about free will.
And as I thought John lenox is more a scientist.
If I keep going, this is the end:
Give me a professor that is wearing one red sneaker and a black boot with a white lace that teaches in a classroom with 200 seats and only 87.4% of those seats are filled. And The 87.4% have one pencil, a 2018 i-pad and all have the same birthday.
We either want the truth or we don't.
It most certainly does have bearing on one's eternal destiny or, as you say, estate. If you believe and receive the One who is payment for your sins you are forgiven and will spend eternity with Him. He revealed the Father and the Holy Spirit in His teachings. If not, your final destination is the lake of fire. I call that having a bearing, don't you?
You should know he ignored the underlying cause of sin to justify his position.
James 1:15
Then, when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth death.
Just as faith is to belief, so is sin to unbelief. The difference in both cases is the object, the word of God. Rejection leads to sin, believing leads to faith.
I was speaking to people who do not believe God sends people to hell because of sin. You came in in the middle of a discussion. Of course sin makes a difference in one's eternal estate. But if Jesus paid for the sins of every person throughout history on the cross, upon what basis does God send someone to hell?