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Showing posts with label Freewill. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Freewill. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 16, 2019

A sovereign God

If God is truly Sovereign and comfortably confident in His Sovereignty; then humanity is free to love Him or themselves. Humanity will always be accountable for all the choices God gave them, and all the consequences of them He prepared for them. Common confusion within theological circles is that God has to be in complete control or they do not understand the outcome. These types of confusion lie within specific groups of people.
The first dictionary definition for "responsible" is "liable to be called on to answer. This is so great because accountability/responsibility is associated with the ability to choose your behavior. This is the only way you can be responsible FOR your behavior. Those who cannot be held accountable are those whose mental capacity is unable to choose, as they cannot comprehend/understand the differences that will hold them responsible. Freedom and understanding
are integral to accountability.

Monday, June 25, 2018

.Freewill. Proverbs 28-29

 28-Then will they call on me, but I will not answer. They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me; 29-Because they hated knowledge, And didn't choose the fear of Yahweh. 

Wednesday, May 9, 2018

1 Chronicles 15:2

 Hear ye me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin; The LORD is with you, while ye be with him; and if ye seek him, he will be found of you; but if ye forsake him, he will forsake you. 

This verse in the Old Testament is more evidence for the freewill of man. I can see this no other way.

Wednesday, March 21, 2018

Free Moral Agency

While the precise expression "free moral agency" is not found in
the scriptures as such, the concept is present. By "free" is meant the
enjoyment of certain rights, "moral" suggests right principles or conduct,
and "agency" refers to the state or being of exerting power or choice.

    God has endowed man with freedom of choice. The scriptures urge man to
"choose," "come unto me," and "open the door" (Josh. 24: 15; Matt. 11: 28;
Rev. 3: 20). Adam and Eve were given the choice to obey or disobey God (Gen.
2: 17; 3: 1-6). The famous "curses" of the Hebrew scriptures were based on
the Jew's free moral agency: "But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not
hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God...that all these curses shall
come upon thee..." (Deut. 28: 15-20, 45). Jesus said to those who were
spiritually doomed, "ye would not!" (Matt. 23: 37).

   Man is responsible for his own actions. Since man has the freedom to obey
or disobey and God does not overpower the will of man, man is responsible
for his own actions. "The soul that sinneth, it shall die," declared the
prophet (Ezek. 18: 20). Sin, as such, is not inherited. "The son shall not
bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity
of the son." The prophet further states, "...the righteousness of the
righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon
him" (Ezek. 18: 20, cf. Matt. 18: 3-6; 19: 13-15).

    In view of the freedom of choice belonging to man, the book of Acts
abounds with examples of the sinner being urged to come to God. At the very
outset we read, "And with many other words did he testify and exhort,
saying, save yourselves from this untoward generation. Then they that gladly
received his word were baptized..." (Acts 2: 40, 41, KJV). 

Friday, November 10, 2017

Mary,Moses

If Mary and Moses were in the Garden of Eden would they have listen to the serpent and eaten the forbidden fruit?
We do not know what would have happened. What we do know is that God created Adam and Eve in such a way that they could freely choose to obey or they could freely choose to rebel. God created Adam and Eve that way because if Adam and Eve were created like puppets then love would not mean anything.

Monday, January 30, 2017

Freewill

If Mary and Moses were in the Garden of Eden would they have listen to the serpent and eaten the forbidden fruit?
We do not know what would have happened. What we do know is that God created Adam and Eve in such a way that they could feely choose to obey or they could freely choose to rebel. God created Adam and Eve that way because if Adam and Eve were created like puppets then love would not mean anything.

Sunday, August 28, 2016

Freeewill

God has given mankind the free will to obey or disobey him (Col.3:17). This started in the garden of Eden with Adam and Eve and then their children Cain and Abel (Gen.2:17; 4:7). Ultimately people have to desire to change themselves. We can try to influence them for good but we cannot make them change. God and the devil both seek to influence man, in totally opposite directions. God seeks to influence for good and the devil attempts to cause man to sin. The devil appears to be more direct in his appeal to man, while God works through mediums such as the word (cp. Gal. 6: 1; Jn. 6: 44, 45). Also, on the surface, doing evil requires less effort than doing right (cp. Matt. 7: 13, 14).