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Can We Really Exercise Free Will?
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OLDBUTNEW
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Not born with free will, created with free will but the moment the Lord imputes our soul to our bodies, our will comes under the constriction of the sin nature and is enslaved. This is why, by means of grace, God must suppress the "flesh" when His truth is presented otherwise we all will automatically reject Him for the "flesh" is anti-God.
ps. I put flesh in quotes so it is not confused with flesh in the sense of our physical body but is understood as the leaning of the other law.
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OLDBUTNEW
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your still under your own free will. I can be as old as you want me too.
You asked asked loads of question that stated you know nothing
Now your telling me you do know
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OLDBUTNEW
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Can't say that I have ever seen you come out and say directly that free will does not exist at all.
So I guess when Adam sinned it really was a case of "the devil made me do it"
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Blue155
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Save your energy and put him on ignore. It will give yourself a peace of mind.
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OLDBUTNEW
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OLDBUTNEW
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Humorous, but no. Being without unabated freewill doesn't preclude the ability to make choices.Can't say that I have ever seen you come out and say directly that free will does not exist at all.
So I guess when Adam sinned it really was a case of "the devil made me do it"
well all this is entertaining but your still in rebellion,
You've not answered clear instruction from his word,.now it may be because you've got the hump
But Do you recognise that' people under there own will do not answer to his word
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OLDBUTNEW
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You know: My putting you on Ignore is sounding more and more like a very good idea!
that's ok I don't mind really.
Have you heard of the blind leading the blind with there own will
if you can recognise this @OLDBUTNEW my Aussie friend
Could you recognise Maybe God never created man with free will
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Blue155
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Did Adam have free will? If Adam had free will, yet we do not have free will until we are āchosenā (all while being considered chosen from the foundation of the world, via Calvinism) then someone of the elect had free will but at the same time did not. That means the elect were only capable of choosing evil until they were āregeneratedā all while being one of āthe electā. And if they were the elect according to Calvinism, then why the need for being born totally depraved or regenerated? Makes no sense.
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Blue155
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I used my āunregenerate stateā of āonly being be able to choose to do evilā to come with a very good idea
