Can We Really Exercise Free Will?
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Right, and yet you seem to believe it is no longer created in God's image and likeness even though you agree He created it.
your still kicking your goad just like your buddy @Genez
you two should get married as your both very queer at the way you both reject his word and his will.
Queer as in strange not queer as in gay.
So you both should marry
I see you are still mad about me noting your feminine spirit.
Strewth! I had three children and not a one got spanked.
You're hanging onto old wives tales.
You misunderstand. I believe man is still created in the image of God. I simply believe that image is marred due to sin.
I have 7 kids. Every one was spanked before breathing.Strewth! I had three children and not a one got spanked.
You're hanging onto old wives tales.
You still didn't answer. Does God breath the breath of life into every child at birth?
Maybe you should learn French feminine words m, instead of gorilla greek and and then learn to stop chucking your doudou out of your pram
I'm pretty sure you have said it is corrupt from birth. How can it be corrupt if Adam had no part in it's creation?
Will not obedience in the new Eternal Order be forced upon all God's saints, since all the saints will finally be liberated FROM the power and presence of sin forever and ever? Since the saints with their new found nature won't be able to sin (just like God has never been able), then how can it be said that the saints in the visible kingdom have "freewill"?
Is He the God of Life or not? It is because God gives that baby a soul it has life otherwise it is still born.
Whoever spanked your kids should be arrested for child abuse!
Whether the soul is given in the womb or outside is irrelevant as to why that child has human life. God creates the soul, you agreed with me on that, but you want to back pedal and put them having human life down to no other reason than being spanked. Shame, shame.
The image of man was corrupted because of Adam's sin, but Adam doesn't have anything to do with the creation of children.
For one example... here:
“For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink;
and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother's womb.” Luke 1:15
King James translator left the literal meaning alone as for in the Greek text - "Ek kolia" = out from the womb. Not, "in the womb" as modern translators like to switch over to. The soul is imputed to the body by God at birth, not in the womb.
"From the womb" is not old English. It is what the Greek actually says.
Here is another.
I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother's belly. Psalm 22:10
It does not say, "in the womb."
An even more accurate translation would read..."out from the womb.'
But? Why are you wanting to know that?
Nope again. I believe life begins at conception. Adam wasn't conceived. That's why he need air breathed into him. He wasn't already alive. A child emerging from the womb is already alive.
How we are created?
Genesis 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
Genesis 2:7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
this dust is the reverse of death, being make into living organisms, cells, tissues, organs, etc.God breathed into Adam nostrils the breath of life which is the spirit (Ruach in hebrew, it describes as wind, breath and spirit)
Breath of life is the result of a living soul.
An unborn baby
who die will have a living soul2 Samuel 12:23 But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.
David adultery with Bathseba's child, also king Solomon older brother was taken by God for David's sin against God.David knows he will meet his son in heaven one day
Regardless of that child's belief to be, God will not not suffer the child for his/her innocent
Deuteronomy 1:39 Moreover your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it.
yes, a child had no knowledge of good and evil, they shall be with God.But as Magenta said earlier re Mat 7:23, Jesus wasn't saying that on judgment day he wasn't omniscient and didn't know anything about the people whom He is about to judge. When Jesus said, "Depart from me, you evildoers, for I never knew you", He was saying he never had a personal, intimate, familial relationship with those people. Biblical Christianity, first and foremost, is all about RELATIONSHIPS!
How we are created?
Genesis 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
Genesis 2:7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
God breathed into Adam nostrils the breath of life which is the spirit (Ruach in hebrew, it describes as wind, breath and spirit)
Breath of life is the result of a living soul.
An unborn baby
2 Samuel 12:23 But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.
David knows he will meet his son in heaven one day
Regardless of that child's belief to be, God will not not suffer the child for his/her innocent
Deuteronomy 1:39 Moreover your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it.
And what is the judicial basis for your premise, since all children come into this world born in Adam?