Can We Really Exercise Free Will?
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He originally was the Lonely Stranger, but he got a partner and made some friends and became the Lone Ranger.
2 Corinthians 4 verses 5-7 ~ We do not proclaim ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake. For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made His light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. Now we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this surpassingly great power is from God and not from us.
and hows the lovely great mum of the saints doing
2 Corinthians 4 verses 5-7 ~ We do not proclaim ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake. For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made His light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. Now we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this surpassingly great power is from God and not from us.
Having a late dinner! And how are you? You went AWOL for a few days loland hows the lovely great mum of the saints doing
He was saved from your wild imaginings like the one below..
What I said was:
which means I didn't breathe in the womb. A living soul is one who breathes.
"Developing babies need oxygen beginning early in pregnancy. Babies don’t truly breathe in the womb. Instead, the umbilical cord provides the baby with oxygen until the first breath after birth."
taken from this site: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/318993
The easy way to answer the question for a Christian is to look at it backwards. Since God has the power to judge us for our actions, we must have free will, as long as we accept the premise that God is good.
When we agree that God is good and has no bad in him whatsoever, then we would need to trust that God's judgements would be true and accurate.
Since scripture reveals that we are all judged according to what we did, then we must conclude that a Good God would not do this unfairly or against the nature he created. God's judgement being good is the key to the whole thing.
Because when God makes a judgement of a single choice and it is good, then the choice must have been made in a reality that could be judged.
Even if there are factors out of our control, he designed us as free agents like himself. This is part of the meaning of being "made in his image"
In the beginning God breathed into Adam and he became a living being. Having God's breath gives us the power to make free choices.
Living things that don't have breath, don't make free choices: things like trees and shrubs and mushrooms.
I think we could debate for a while weather animals have free choice, but when it comes to humans, made in the image of God, we are given that power to choose, and subsequently, God has the goodness to judge between what is good and what is evil.
The reason there is a doctrine of 'no free choice' is because it suits most of the worldly ideologies that are against God and his good power to judge.
When we agree that God is good and has no bad in him whatsoever, then we would need to trust that God's judgements would be true and accurate.
Since scripture reveals that we are all judged according to what we did, then we must conclude that a Good God would not do this unfairly or against the nature he created. God's judgement being good is the key to the whole thing.
Because when God makes a judgement of a single choice and it is good, then the choice must have been made in a reality that could be judged.
Even if there are factors out of our control, he designed us as free agents like himself. This is part of the meaning of being "made in his image"
In the beginning God breathed into Adam and he became a living being. Having God's breath gives us the power to make free choices.
Living things that don't have breath, don't make free choices: things like trees and shrubs and mushrooms.
I think we could debate for a while weather animals have free choice, but when it comes to humans, made in the image of God, we are given that power to choose, and subsequently, God has the goodness to judge between what is good and what is evil.
The reason there is a doctrine of 'no free choice' is because it suits most of the worldly ideologies that are against God and his good power to judge.
I'm good now thanks
I came to my senses and realised there's seven billion tongues in the world that need taming, I realised I'm not going to tame them all so I'll just let nature take it's cause.
Then what I realise is everyone believes in freedom of speech, where by they cant and can respect what your saying, but they have the right to say what there saying.
So I thought I would just surrender lol
