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ABOUT We pray for God’s will to be done. Even Jesus prayed for God’s will to be done in His own life during the time He was with us on this earth. And then we turn around and say that our own mere human will can override God’s will by our so called “free choice” or “free will” or “free moral agency.” Those thoughts and ideas are based on the traditional ethics of sinful arrogant man and of the Adversary, the evil one, evil “from the beginning.” (1 Jo3:8 Yet he who is doing sin is of the Adversary, for from the beginning is the Adversary sinning.) And again, we pray for God’s will to be done and then we
turn on God and hate Him for the “bad” things happening in our life and that
He did not answer our prayers to our satisfaction. (O man, who do you think you are? Rom Isa 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these [things]. (about EVIL << click here) Lam Prov 16:4 The LORD hath made all [things] for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil. Ecc Amos
3:6 “…shall there be EVIL in a city,
and the Lord has not done it?” Job
26:13 By his spirit he hath garnished
the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent. Isa
13:11 And I have appointed on the world evil, And on the wicked their
iniquity, And have caused to cease the excellency of the proud, And the
excellency of the terrible I make low. (Young’s Literal Translation) Matt Job Here is the lie that man desperately wants to believe, and does believe. Man has more difficulty believing God than believing Satan: Gen 3:4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: 5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. Carefully read these passages and prayerfully consider if your thoughts and actions, your choices and desires, are from God or only from you, independently and apart from any influence from God (your own so called free will): Pro 16:9 Prov 16:9 A man's heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps . Pro Pro 21:1 The king's heart [is] in the hand of the LORD, [as] the rivers of water: He turneth it whithersoever He will. 2 Every way of a man [is] right in his own eyes: but the LORD pondereth the hearts. 1 Co 4:7 For who maketh thee to differ [from another]? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive [it], why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received [it]? 2 Chr 20:6 (Who can withstand His will…) 6 And said, O LORD God of our fathers, [art] not thou God in heaven? and rulest [not] thou over all the kingdoms of the heathen? and in thine hand [is there not] power and might, so that none is able to withstand thee? Proverbs Jeremiah Isa 26:12 Yahweh, our Elohim, You are the Setter of welfare on the hearthstones for us, for, moreover, all our doings You do contrive for us. Isa 55 11 " . . . so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and succeed in the thing for which I sent it Joh Phi 1Ti 2 4 who will have all men to be saved. (Who wills — makes it a fact — that all mankind be saved and come into a realization of the truth? God alone!) Phil.2:12, 13 "for it is God Who is operating in you to will as well as to work..." 1 Tim 4:9 Faithful is the saying and worthy of all welcome 10 (for for this are we toiling and being reproached), that we rely on the living God, Who is the Saviour of all mankind, 11 especially of believers. These things be charging and teaching. (Who is speaking here? Who is the One saving the world? Who are the ones with a special salvation?) 1 Th Rom Eph 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Who blesses us with every spiritual blessing among the celestials, in Christ, 4 according as He chooses us in Him before the disruption of the world, we to be holy and flawless in His sight, 5 in love designating us beforehand for the place of a son for Him through Christ Jesus; in accord with the delight of His will, 6 for the laud of the glory of His grace, which graces us in the Beloved: 7 in Whom we are having the deliverance through His blood, the forgiveness of offenses in accord with the riches of His grace, 8 which He lavishes on us; in all wisdom and prudence 9 making known to us the secret of His will (in accord with His delight, which He purposed in Him) 10 to have an administration of the complement of the eras, to head up all in the Christ--both that in the heavens and that on the earth-- 11 in Him in Whom our lot was cast also, being designated beforehand according to the purpose of the One Who is operating all in accord with the counsel of His will, 12 that we should be for the laud of His glory, who are pre-expectant in the Christ. 13 In Whom you also--on hearing the word of truth, the evangel of your salvation--in Whom on believing also, you are sealed with the holy spirit of promise 14 (which is an earnest of the enjoyment of our allotment, to the deliverance of that which has been procured) for the laud of His glory! We, the clay, can protest all we want about any and all of our life circumstances, but so what! It is God Who makes us do what we do. You want to blame it on the “devil?” Well, Who do you think created the “devil” (the Adversary or Satan)? God did! (Rom 11:36) Joh 12 32 And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all [men] unto me. (And the clay said, "No God, you can't if I don't let you." Oh, really? What is Easter all about but the "lifting up to heaven" of Christ Jesus. It is a done deal for all mankind, every human conceived since Adam.) 1 Cor Ecc 3:17 I said in my heart: As for the righteous and the wicked, the One, Elohim, shall judge both of them. For He has set a season for every event and for every deed. Ecc 12:14 For the One, Elohim, shall bring every deed into judgment concerning all that is obscured, Whether good or whether evil. Joh 15:5 “I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. :16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit— Eph 1:11 in Him in Whom our lot was cast also, being designated beforehand according to the purpose of the One Who is operating all in accord with the counsel of His will… Since God’s Son (the First of all creation, Mar 8:8 And they all ate and are satisfied. And they pick up of the surplus fragments, seven hampers. 9 Now those eating were about four thousand. And He dismisses them. Luk 9:16 Now taking the five cakes of bread and the two fishes, looking up into heaven, He blesses them and breaks them up, and gave to the disciples to place before the throng. 17 And they ate, and all are satisfied. And twelve panniers of their superfluous fragments were picked up Luk 12:7 But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows . We might also ask, “Isn’t it our responsibility… what we chose to do?” “The idea of responsibility (“free will” ed.) is not an innocent addition to God's revelation. It is a harmful accretion to the Scriptures, leading to much that is contrary to the truth and subversive of the knowledge of God.” Click here for source. And one more thing, using our so called “free will” suggests that we are doing something and that is works; but works is debarred to affect salvation. Isn’t God big enough to do the job without our help? Grace alone! Rom 11:6 And if by grace, then [is it] no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if [it be] of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work Rom Rom Day to day we certainly must make our choices << click here. (we go to work; we pay our bills; we miss the off-ramp) but it is not “free will.” “Free will,” as understood in traditional Christian circles, is a false dogma dreamed up centuries after Jesus Christ was on this earth. But not having free will, does this make us automatons or puppets? Not in the simple understanding of a puppet. It is more complex. We do have strings << click here. and a re blessed by God to have them. The Apostle Paul did not have free will and neither do
we. He was influenced greatly (unavoidably
forced) by Jesus Himself on his walk to Damascus. Paul, the former Saul, made many good and
many bad choices both before and after his walk to Some object that if all are to be saved then they would go out and sin all they wanted to. And that is “all right” too because you can not “out sin” grace. Rom 5: …Yet where sin increases, grace superexceeds, 21 that, even as Sin reigns in death, thus Grace also should be reigning through righteousness, for life eonian, << click here. through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Rom 6:1 What, then, shall we declare? That we may be persisting in sin that grace should be increasing? 2 May it not be coming to that! We, who died to sin, how shall we still be living in it? Does a reformed drunk run to the nearest bar to celebrate his new found sobriety? When we realize we are saved by Jesus’ faith and grace alone, we desire and chose to do the better things in life as much as we can. Did Paul have “free will?” Rom 7:14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. 15 For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I . {allow: Gr. know} 16 If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that [it is] good. 17 Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. 18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but [how] to perform that which is good I find not. 19 For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do . 20 Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. Do we really have the power as humans to choose good or evil? It seems that Paul didn't? Did the Saviour Jesus Christ have “free will?” Luk Bob Todd Last update 3/9/2011 4:45 AM If you want to
start some simple Bible study, start here: http://home.earthlink.net/~more2believe/words.pdf READ YOUR BIBLE “It is right —it really
is— that men should do awful things that they might experience awful
consequences (viz., sin, guilt, shame and suffering); for God has need of
just such creatures as those who have known these very experiences and in the
very varieties as those with which we are acquainted. In light of the fact
that God is operating all (Eph. |
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More to believe: Man's Will or God's http://www.concordant.org/expohtml/TheProblemOfEvil/evil012.html << click THE HUMAN WILL
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