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In making a choice, you are exercising free will. In exercising free will, you are making a choice.

Category error. You might as well ask how a slug has the ability to snail.

If I don't do something that is a crime under Borneo law, but I am a Canadian in Canada, am I then under Borneo law? No. Your argument fails.

This is the usual legalist response: if you aren't under the Torah, you are a profligate sinner with no limits and no remorse. Hogwash and codswollop! The indwelling Holy Spirit is a far better limiter of sin than the Torah ever could be.

Psst... the Holy Spirit is a He, not an it.

How about you think that through, and when you realize the category error you've made, perhaps you will have the integrity to withdraw the question.

Welcome to CC! Your humility is commendable, but don't let it become gullibility to false teachers who want to put you under a law they themselves do not (and cannot) obey. :) Also, bear in mind that the person who started this thread outed himself as a false prophet in another thread recently.

Christians, especially those not descended from Jacob, were never under the Torah and are not obligated to obey it. We are no more obligated to obey it than a Canadian in Canada is obligated to obey the laws of Borneo.

Why would you think that? I said (and normally do say) precisely and completely what I meant to say. Don't bother thinking I mean something else. I did already, clearly and specifically.

Free will in this context is the ability to choose to respond to the gospel. That's it. That's all. There's no need to complicate it.

"Wanting" free will is irrelevant. Who said anything about keeping it unchecked? You are confusing freedom with wantonness.

To 2 Peter 3:9.

Free will is not omnipotence. It is not the power to induce the will of another person, and I have never encountered anyone who thought it was. It is the ability to make a choice, which means your statement is internally contradictory.

They are the same thing.

You beat me to it. :)

This statement (bolded) is inconsistent with plain Scripture and thereby raises a flag that you are likely a false prophet. As Peter stated in his first letter, "The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to...

God has declared clearly in Scripture that He wants all to come to salvation. That declaration is inconsistent with "who God decides to save". Clear Scripture trumps "all other views, beliefs, doctrines, arguments." Where in Scripture is it recorded that "Moses coughed up the bread of life"...

This from someone who talks much with his fingers. Here's some free advice: Choose carefully how you correct others, lest you become a blatant hypocrite.

You stated that temptation is not a sin, but then you say (as a correction) that temptation is a sin. Do you see how your statements are confusing? By not specifying clearly the sense in which you are using the term, "temptation", you are actually saying things that are incorrect. So, let's...

And so we have the epitome of exemplification.