Can We Really Exercise Free Will?

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cv5 said:
Tell us again how you, @Magenta , @Rufus , @Jordon had absolutely no clue whatsoever that Moses went up and down Mt. Sinai at least seven times as a consequence of hammering out the detailed negotiations to the Covenant.

And how you feel spasmodic pangs of remorse at your woeful abysmal ignorance, the sum of which have driven you all to earnest contrition.....🤢🤮

Oh and BTW, Mt. Sinai is certainly located in Western Saudi Arabia. And none of you know that either....😵‍💫🥲
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easy peasy that one, the lord had pricked his conscience m 😭
 
cv5 said:
Free will is indelibly codified in the Bible from cover to cover. Its utterly impossible to avoid it or deny it.

However, you can be blinded to it if this happens to your desire, choice and will in the matter.
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Well, the Bible says this and that, I do not believe in the Bible as a solution of all of our questions (do you? if so - why?)
Instead, I tend to search science for answers. And according to science, the question of "free will" is unanswered.
 
Magenta said:
Wow. You are new, maybe, perhaps you are a deceiver returning after being banned, but anyways, you are new here and
think you can dictate my testimony to me? Free willers such as yourself prove all day long how delusional they are.
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Once again, sister: Are you on some kind of drug?!
 
Believer08 said:
You can call them logical fallacies, but that doesn’t change the truth about what a consistent Calvinist believes. Not having free will = robots/puppets.
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having free will in the flesh uncontrolled by the fruits of the spirit equals a slave to sin m😭
 
Believer08 said:
😆 honesty, I like certain cookies. Make sure you put chunky chocolate chips in them yum yum!! 😋
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My daughter loves the one bite peanut butter cookies with dark chocolate chunks in
them. I buy them for her often. She is such a wee thing she can afford to eat them LOL.
 
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Believer08 said:
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Just adding to your "freewill offerings" post earlier....

[Lev 22:18, 21, 23 KJV] 18 Speak unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of Israel, and say unto them, Whatsoever [he be] of the house of Israel, or of the strangers in Israel, that will offer his oblation for all his vows, and for all his freewill offerings, which they will offer unto the LORD for a burnt offering; ... 21 And whosoever offereth a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the LORD to accomplish [his] vow, or a freewill offering in beeves or sheep, it shall be perfect to be accepted; there shall be no blemish therein. ... 23 Either a bullock or a lamb that hath any thing superfluous or lacking in his parts, that mayest thou offer [for] a freewill offering; but for a vow it shall not be accepted.
[Lev 23:38 KJV] 38 Beside the sabbaths of the LORD, and beside your gifts, and beside all your vows, and beside all your freewill offerings, which ye give unto the LORD.
[Num 15:3 KJV] 3 And will make an offering by fire unto the LORD, a burnt offering, or a sacrifice in performing a vow, or in a freewill offering, or in your solemn feasts, to make a sweet savour unto the LORD, of the herd, or of the flock:
[Num 29:39 KJV] 39 These [things] ye shall do unto the LORD in your set feasts, beside your vows, and your freewill offerings, for your burnt offerings, and for your meat offerings, and for your drink offerings, and for your peace offerings.
[Deu 12:6, 17 KJV] 6 And thither ye shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and heave offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herds and of your flocks: ... 17 Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or of thy wine, or of thy oil, or the firstlings of thy herds or of thy flock, nor any of thy vows which thou vowest, nor thy freewill offerings, or heave offering of thine hand:
[Deu 16:10 KJV] 10 And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the LORD thy God with a tribute of a freewill offering of thine hand, which thou shalt give [unto the LORD thy God], according as the LORD thy God hath blessed thee:
[Deu 23:23 KJV] 23 That which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt keep and perform; [even] a freewill offering, according as thou hast vowed unto the LORD thy God, which thou hast promised with thy mouth.
[2Ch 31:14 KJV] 14 And Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, the porter toward the east, [was] over the freewill offerings of God, to distribute the oblations of the LORD, and the most holy things.
[Ezr 1:4 KJV] 4 And whosoever remaineth in any place where he sojourneth, let the men of his place help him with silver, and with gold, and with goods, and with beasts, beside the freewill offering for the house of God that [is] in Jerusalem.
[Ezr 3:5 KJV] 5 And afterward [offered] the continual burnt offering, both of the new moons, and of all the set feasts of the LORD that were consecrated, and of every one that willingly offered a freewill offering unto the LORD.
[Ezr 7:13, 16 KJV] 13 I make a decree, that all they of the people of Israel, and [of] his priests and Levites, in my realm, which are minded of their own freewill to go up to Jerusalem, go with thee. ... 16 And all the silver and gold that thou canst find in all the province of Babylon, with the freewill offering of the people, and of the priests, offering willingly for the house of their God which [is] in Jerusalem:
[Ezr 8:28 KJV] 28 And I said unto them, Ye [are] holy unto the LORD; the vessels [are] holy also; and the silver and the gold [are] a freewill offering unto the LORD God of your fathers.
[Psa 119:108 KJV] 108 Accept, I beseech thee, the freewill offerings of my mouth, O LORD, and teach me thy judgments.
 
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Magenta said:
My daughter loves the one bite peanut butter cookies with dark chocolate chunks in
them. I buy them for her often. She is such a wee thing she can afford to eat them LOL.
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😆 I don’t think I have tried those. I’ll have to put that on my bucket list. Mmmm mmm!!
 
cv5 said:
Just adding to your "freewill offerings" post earlier....

[Lev 22:18, 21, 23 KJV] 18 Speak unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of Israel, and say unto them, Whatsoever [he be] of the house of Israel, or of the strangers in Israel, that will offer his oblation for all his vows, and for all his freewill offerings, which they will offer unto the LORD for a burnt offering; ... 21 And whosoever offereth a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the LORD to accomplish [his] vow, or a freewill offering in beeves or sheep, it shall be perfect to be accepted; there shall be no blemish therein. ... 23 Either a bullock or a lamb that hath any thing superfluous or lacking in his parts, that mayest thou offer [for] a freewill offering; but for a vow it shall not be accepted.
[Lev 23:38 KJV] 38 Beside the sabbaths of the LORD, and beside your gifts, and beside all your vows, and beside all your freewill offerings, which ye give unto the LORD.
[Num 15:3 KJV] 3 And will make an offering by fire unto the LORD, a burnt offering, or a sacrifice in performing a vow, or in a freewill offering, or in your solemn feasts, to make a sweet savour unto the LORD, of the herd, or of the flock:
[Num 29:39 KJV] 39 These [things] ye shall do unto the LORD in your set feasts, beside your vows, and your freewill offerings, for your burnt offerings, and for your meat offerings, and for your drink offerings, and for your peace offerings.
[Deu 12:6, 17 KJV] 6 And thither ye shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and heave offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herds and of your flocks: ... 17 Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or of thy wine, or of thy oil, or the firstlings of thy herds or of thy flock, nor any of thy vows which thou vowest, nor thy freewill offerings, or heave offering of thine hand:
[Deu 16:10 KJV] 10 And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the LORD thy God with a tribute of a freewill offering of thine hand, which thou shalt give [unto the LORD thy God], according as the LORD thy God hath blessed thee:
[Deu 23:23 KJV] 23 That which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt keep and perform; [even] a freewill offering, according as thou hast vowed unto the LORD thy God, which thou hast promised with thy mouth.
[2Ch 31:14 KJV] 14 And Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, the porter toward the east, [was] over the freewill offerings of God, to distribute the oblations of the LORD, and the most holy things.
[Ezr 1:4 KJV] 4 And whosoever remaineth in any place where he sojourneth, let the men of his place help him with silver, and with gold, and with goods, and with beasts, beside the freewill offering for the house of God that [is] in Jerusalem.
[Ezr 3:5 KJV] 5 And afterward [offered] the continual burnt offering, both of the new moons, and of all the set feasts of the LORD that were consecrated, and of every one that willingly offered a freewill offering unto the LORD.
[Ezr 7:13, 16 KJV] 13 I make a decree, that all they of the people of Israel, and [of] his priests and Levites, in my realm, which are minded of their own freewill to go up to Jerusalem, go with thee. ... 16 And all the silver and gold that thou canst find in all the province of Babylon, with the freewill offering of the people, and of the priests, offering willingly for the house of their God which [is] in Jerusalem:
[Ezr 8:28 KJV] 28 And I said unto them, Ye [are] holy unto the LORD; the vessels [are] holy also; and the silver and the gold [are] a freewill offering unto the LORD God of your fathers.
[Psa 119:108 KJV] 108 Accept, I beseech thee, the freewill offerings of my mouth, O LORD, and teach me thy judgments.
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All expresions of the lords faith 😭
 
Magenta said:
I think you are on a bender to slander. That tells me who your father is...

But to answer the question anyways, I neither drink nor do drugs.
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Jolly good; I don't think you ever would have met my father: not my earthly one, anyway!
 
Believer08 said:
😆 I don’t think I have tried those. I’ll have to put that on my bucket list. Mmmm mmm!!
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I get them at Whole Foods. A small plastic container is maybe eight dollars now? Of course the cost does not matter to me because I am buying them for my daughter, but some people, perhaps especially in today's economy, could not afford such uh, delicasies, or treats. I prefer apple pie myself LOL. She can live quite happily without pie, but we grew up having pie for desert, especially on the weekends.
 
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