Can We Really Exercise Free Will?

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I have had premonitions.
I have also been granted rare moments for insight.

Premonitions require simply discerning what one is shown.

Insight, by contrast, requires the prerequisite of first gaining knowledge, so that you will have what is needed to think with to be able to break down correctly something that has been previously hidden.

Note the following, what it says about knowledge....


And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight."
Philippians 1:9​


King Abimelech did not need to sit in Bible classes to first learn the needed doctrines to be able correlate in understanding what he was shown in the dream.

Biblical insight requires one first acquiring and possessing the needed knowledge to make the needed conclusion.

You are simply ignoring the semantic range of word usage. It’s simply a part of our English language. What is your grade level? You can fact check this with an Ai or search it out on the internet. It’s pretty basic.

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Appreciate your patience, time and effort.

To assert that some people are created and elected for salvation and the rest are created for destruction..... if the first one is true, then so is the second and there is no way around that even though they have their double speak.

What a dark and disturbed view of salvation.

Some Calvinists I ran into love to make Darth Vader memes in their reference to their understanding of God. So why would they compare their understanding of God to Darth Vader? It’s because the very belief is not only unbiblical it also teaches that God is unloving.


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Appreciate your patience, time and effort.

To assert that some people are created and elected for salvation and the rest are created for destruction..... if the first one is true, then so is the second and there is no way around that even though they have their double speak.

What a dark and disturbed view of salvation.
Sure seems that way.
I know that some here on this message board have been convinced by them. :(
have you and your colleagues heard of the term cutting of your nose to spite your face ?

Because you all doing it quite a lot.

Anyhow Gods word declares he knows who will be filled with the holy spirit before there born, would you like to be shown in scripture ?
 
Some Calvinists I ran into love to make Darth Vader memes in their reference to their understanding of God. So why would they compare their understanding of God to Darth Vader? It’s because the very belief is not only unbiblical it also teaches that God is unloving.


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Who is it your calling a calvinist in this thread, ?

I heard a message today about isms actually it isn't a bad word in there eyes, I was pleasantly surprised,
 
have you and your colleagues heard of the term cutting of your nose to spite your face ?

Because you all doing it quite a lot.

Anyhow Gods word declares he knows who will be filled with the holy spirit before there born, would you like to be shown in scripture ?

God knows everything, this does not mean he creates some people specifically to be saved and others for destruction.
The two cannot be separated.
 
Some Calvinists I ran into love to make Darth Vader memes in their reference to their understanding of God. So why would they compare their understanding of God to Darth Vader? It’s because the very belief is not only unbiblical it also teaches that God is unloving. .
What is it with free willers and their love of logical fallacies? It is like they were made for each other.
 
God knows everything, this does not mean he creates some people specifically to be saved and others for destruction.
The two cannot be separated.
who's implied that they have here ?

Because if your going to make assertions with people who are sharing the word of God with you then you should say whom your aiming at

Because otherwise if you don't have any proof it's called plagiarism

So once again do you want to be shown where God declares he knows who will be filled with the holy spirit before there born ?
 
Sure seems that way.
I know that some here on this message board have been convinced by them. :(


Every believer has been given the Holy Spirit.

Not everyone learns to become one with the Spirit right away.

It takes making some mistakes to discover something about yourself that God wants to deal with.
 
What is it with free willers and their love of logical fallacies? It is like they were made for each other.
He no different to all other people who get filled with dark ideas about people they put labels on people rather than admit there in the wrong
 
Every believer has been given the Holy Spirit.

Not everyone learns to become one with the Spirit right away.

It takes making some mistakes to discover something about yourself that God wants to deal with.

Yes but some are indoctrinated into "reformed doctrines" and that is where they stay.
 
Every believer has been given the Holy Spirit.

Not everyone learns to become one with the Spirit right away.

It takes making some mistakes to discover something about yourself that God wants to deal with.
actually once your blessed with the fruits of spirit you are one with the spirit, what happens is conflict between the flesh and the spirit, daily sir, and your no different
Blessed are the peace maker for they are Gods children

Why is it sir that you hate people one day and love them the next ?

I know your hate is justified right
 
God knows everything, this does not mean he creates some people specifically to be saved and others for destruction.
The two cannot be separated.


I means that when God created all mankind He created all souls to be with Him.

Later, it turned out, that some decided not to be.

The key to understanding all this?
How an omniscient God can create everyone to be with Him?
Yet, have some not ending up that way?

That secret to doing this was revealed in Jesus.
How he was able to deny Himself his powers of Deity to make Himself a man.

For if all things created were created through Him?

For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him." Colossians 1:16

When creating all mankind? Like He did in the incarnation? He chose to deny Himself his right to the power of omniscience.
And, then created all souls with one intention. That all would love God and worship Him.

After that phase of creation was completed?
He then returned to His full powers of Deity.
When that happened?
He agreed to go to the Cross to get back all that would become lost.
Then in his omniscience He saw those who would reject God.

He did not make them to not believe.
 
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Yes but some are indoctrinated into "reformed doctrines" and that is where they stay.

Religion is religion.
Religion is like caves on the side of a mountain.
The religious feel safe there.

Christianity is alive and powerful... sharper than any two edged sword.
 
You are simply ignoring the semantic range of word usage. It’s simply a part of our English language. What is your grade level? You can fact check this with an Ai or search it out on the internet. It’s pretty basic.

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Sir... I repeat.
I have experienced both.
They are not the same.

AI never experiences such phenomena, and is no better than the ignorance of those who program it.
 
Religion is religion.
Religion is like caves on the side of a mountain.
The religious feel safe there.

Christianity is alive and powerful... sharper than any two edged sword.
I thought it was Gods words that is sharper than any double edge sword.

Unless your thinking to highly of your self again.

According to you Christians here are going to hell
 
Sir... I repeat.
I have experienced both.
They are not the same.

AI never experiences such phenomena, and is no better than the ignorance of those who program it.
do you ever get premonitions about yourself ?

Or are they only about other people ?
 
Well I would like to say it's been a good day for sharing God's word in this thread but sadly no.

It's been another day of un-answered questions from all the Calvinist bashers here.

I must have heard the word Calvinist used in access of 50 times in 50 different post, and every word of God used against these imaginary Calvinists that apparently exist in this thread, despite the people who are being accused of that saying in many occasions they not a Calvinist.

It's like listening to a needle stuck on record, and its also the same watching the word of God rejected in thousands.
of posts by the people wrongly accusing, and then they expect us to believe there word, I mean its absolutely incredible

Here's the truth look the will of the flesh is overpowered by the will of the spirit
  • Galatians 5:16–17:
    "So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. For the flesh craves what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are in conflict with each other, so that you are unable to do what you may want to do".
 
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