“Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.”
John 5:24 KJV
Can We Really Exercise Free Will?
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“Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.”
John 5:24 KJV
This came from God
“And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.”
Mark 16:15-16 KJV
a you guys act as if th ats just a myth that God accomplished and then sent the witness of the gospel to all people that’s what saves us the gospel it is there to save those who were lost not those who were pre chosen and always saved lol
But I'm filled with praise and thanksgiving and adorantion to God for DETERMINING to save my helpless, worthless, useless, depraved hide. To whom are you thankful and to whom do you praise, other than your "freewill", of course?
John 3 verses 19-20 and from Psalm 10 verse 4 This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of Light because their deeds were evil. Everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come into the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. The wicked reviles the Lord
“Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;
and repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face. Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them. Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that the LORD thy God shall keep unto thee the covenant and the mercy which he sware unto thy fathers: and he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee.”
Deuteronomy 7:9-13 KJV
“Why do you call Me good?” Jesus replied. “No one is good except God alone. Mark ch. 10 verse 18 and Luke ch. 18 verse 19 “There is only One who is good.” Matthew ch. 19 verse 17b. There is no one who does good. fr Psalm ch. 14. There is no one righteous, not even one. Romans ch. 3 verse 10. They are corrupt; their ways are vile. There is no one who does good. All have turned away, they have together become corrupt; there is no one who does good, not even one. fr Psalm ch. 53 verses 1-3. Surely there is no righteous man on earth who does good and never sins. Ecclesiastes ch. 7 verse 20. For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.
Yeah he told us the end he ordained and the means
“And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; ( that’s salvation for believers )
but he that believeth not shall be damned.” ( that’s the end of non believers )
Mark 16:15-16 KJV
there’s no secret thing he does for some and not others the gospel is what he did to save us all . You guys talk about his dominion but whenever you read his judgements you outright reject what he said and explain he’s soveriegn he can do what he wants as if he’s been lying all along and isn’t going to do things just as he has said
From Galatians 4:22-24 plus 28-29 and 5:1 Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman. His son by the slave woman was born according to the flesh, but his son by the free woman was born through the promise. These things serve as illustrations, for the women represent two covenants. One covenant is from Mount Sinai and bears children into slavery. We, like Isaac, are children of promise. The son born by the flesh persecuted the son born by the Spirit. It is the same now. It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not be encumbered once more by a yoke of slavery.
From Romans 6:19-21 You used to offer your body in slavery to impurity and to escalating wickedness when you were slaves to sin. What fruit did you reap at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? The outcome of those things is death.
2 Peter 1 verse 1 To those who through the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ have received a faith as precious as ours. Jude 1 verse 3 contend earnestly for the faith entrusted once for all to the saints. Acts 13 verse 48 All who were appointed for eternal life believed. Acts 16 verse 14 The Lord opened her heart to respond to Paul’s message. John 6 verse 44 “No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him." John 6 verse 37a Everyone the Father gives Me will come to Me. Philippians 1 verse 6 being confident of this, that He Who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion. Philippians 1 verse 29 For it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ not only to believe in Him, but also to suffer for Him. Romans 12 verse 3b think of yourself with sober judgment, according to the measure of faith God has given you. 2 Timothy 2 verse 25b hope that God may grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth. Isaiah 65 verse 1 “I revealed Myself to those who did not ask for Me; I was found by those who did not seek Me." God foreknew, chose, predestined, and saved us.
