Can We Really Exercise Free Will?

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would you say that was Gods will he had m 😊
God knew what choice Adam would make in sinning deliberately against Him.

And He had already made provision, and that is His plan, to save those who believe by grace through faith.

Some even say Adam was perfect, but Scripture does not say that. We are perfected in Christ.
 
If our will were not involved in God saving us?

If we can not resist the drawing of God? (as TULIP Calvinists claim)

Then it would make absolutely no sense why Jesus made so many severe wanings about Hell.

He taught about Hell as to influence those who had been resisting God's drawing.

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Calvinists acknowledge that the will is engaged in salvation.
 
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Dogs are not required to choose about God.

The only ones who are in such a position are angels and man.
Surely you got the point concerning nature. Jesus said leopards can't change their spots. Did you think He was saying leopards can be saved?
 
Surely you got the point concerning nature. Jesus said leopards can't change their spots. Did you think He was saying leopards can be saved?
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Romans 7 v 14, John 8 v 34, Jeremiah 13 v 23, Romans 3 v 10 ~ We know that the law is spiritual; but
I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I tell you, everyone who sins is a slave to sin.” Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Neither are you able to do good - you who are accustomed to doing evil. There is no one righteous, not even one.
 
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So many problems with TULIP, so much inconsistency when viewed in the light of scripture, the full picture, not just the supposed proof texts.

It is their problem.

We should come to a point where we stop making them our problem.

It is like trying to warn certain Catholics not to pray to Mary.
Confounding as they may be after showing them Scripture concerning prayer and Mary?
They persist.
They shut off the world, and live in their own little world to shelter themselves.

Why?


They are resisting the Holy Spirit willfully.


There is a way that seems right to a man,
But its end is the way of death." Proverbs 14:12​

They want to believe their error more than anything else.
It makes them feel secure with themselves.

And, they will get insulted when Truth is brought forth to shine light on where they have hidden themselves.
But, it is God's job to bring them to where He would want them to be. Not ours.

We can only be a messenger.

I have prayed that I am are not deceived, like they are, but in my own way.
I have asked myself...
Maybe? I am just as blind as they are, but in my own way.
That thought at times has caused the fear of the Lord in me.

How can one be so deceived?
To think that others, who are not, are the ones deceived?

Working out my salvation in fear and trembling keeps having review tests.
 
No, but you have to take your victories when they come, even the small ones.
Maybe one day she will also stop telling us God is unfair to do what He does.

We could than all rejoice with the angels in heaven upon her repentance.
 
Pelagian heretics don't like that Biblical truth.

You do not even know what that is?
Pelagianism is a Christian theological position that holds that the fall did not taint human nature
and that humans by divine grace have free will to achieve human perfection.
You are off in the toolies with that accusation.
No one here is denying having a fallen nature.
 
Surely you got the point concerning nature. Jesus said leopards can't change their spots. Did you think He was saying leopards can be saved?


Missing the point, to avoid the point that was made.

You're good at doing that.
 
You do not even know what that is?
Pelagianism is a Christian theological position that holds that the fall did not taint human nature
and that humans by divine grace have free will to achieve human perfection.
You are off in the toolies with that accusation.
No one here is denying having a fallen nature.

It also teaches human perfectibility.
So very off, but then look at the doctrine they defend, what else can they do.