Ability to choose: Free will is the capacity to choose between different courses of action, including the choice to believe or not believe in God.
What Controls Our Human Free Will?
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Free will would include being able to choose every course of action.
A dog can choose to eat the food in its dish or not. It can't choose to drive to the store and buy its favorite food. Does the dog have free will? Why or why not?
Voluntary belief: God does not force belief, but gives individuals the freedom to choose their own path, as seen in scripture where God calls people to believe and repent, such as in John 7:17.
Influence on choice: Human free will is not absolute or "wholly neutral" in the popular sense, as choices are impacted by influences like the sin nature, intellect, and environment.
We make our own choices and decisions based on our own free will. If we make a decision that was a good decision in obedience to Gods word, that would be considered a Godly choice and decision but that doesn't mean God forced us to make that decision. By the same token, if we make a wrong decision to do something that was against God's Word It doesn't mean the Devil made us do it. The decisions were made by our own free will and choice. God, the Holy Spirit and the Devil all influence us but we're still the ones making the decision of our own free will and accord.
When God is at work willing and doing in an individual, is He influencing people's actions?
like so many here you have a thought that Gods will would not used as something forceful.
The thought shouldn't even be crossing your mind at all, all it does is make you free to do what you want to choose.. which your not in spiritual matters for many reasons
You just don't get it, Gods job is to against the will of the naturally wicked heart because it won't be saved otherwise , the naturally wicked heart is held ransom to the power of death.
God has to put his will there and he doesn't need permission, because it's his breath of life he's saving.
Honestly this whole idea Of God not being allowed to go against a persons will, because it would be forceful is just incorrect, or the other idea that floats around here, which God doesn't control us like puppets.
All these ideas are just idealism nothing more
Incorrect sir, you don't have freedom unless your saved.
As sculpture declares whom the lord sets free will be free indeed
Moral agency: Humans are moral agents held responsible for their actions, a core tenet of Christianity supported by biblical examples like Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden and Jesus's invitations to follow him.
The free will ability to choose between good an evil means the will is free to choose.
If God is conforming an individual into the image of Christ, isn't He impacting an individual's choice to choose evil?
Ability to choose: Free will is the capacity to choose between different courses of action, including the choice to believe or not believe in God.
God directs the steps, and without a choice given your not going to knows which path to take without his will, His sheep hear his voice and they follow, his children hear his voice because his treasures speak to them in the heart,, and guides them into the right choice and again with his will attached to there hearts.
You don't even get a choice of spiritual matters without it being given, which is given to all, it's really something you should know, this is candy for a baby, a baby can not eat unless its fed, a person can't be saved unless he's willed.
Sir your on a very solitary pathway thinking like this, your instructed to take every choice to the lord where he will renew your mind with the right choice and will, you can't just make a choice of. A spiritual matter without mediating with the lord first. You have to wait for an answer.
You know sir Free will is just a plural really it's over exaggerated.
Freewill isn't even a proper word when it's split into two words it just a noun or an objective,
People having Free will isn't even recorded in the bible anywhere, you know why, because devoted saved people of God recognise your either a slave to sin or a slave to righteousness, both encounters needs Gods will
While God is sovereign, humans remain genuinely responsible for their choices.