I Choose Free Will
Treeplanter
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Humanity is no more inherently evil than it is inherently good.
Ps 51:5, Jer 17:9
gus bovona
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I agree that it is quite the coincidence that every single person has free will
but no person is perfect.
The Lord was/is perfect. He lived the life that neither you nor I could live. Mt
5:48, 1 Pet. 1:18, 19
gus bovona
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A more charitable reading of what I wrote would have understood
"person" to mean "human" (and not human/god).
Jesus was/is 100% God/100% man (1 Pet. 3:18).
Treeplanter
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Do you believe that you possess free will?
God gave man a will (Ge 2:17). He won't demand you to
love him (Jn 3:16).
HRG
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[Jesus was/is 100% God/100% man (1 Pet. 3:18).] That's like
saying that my drink was 100% water/100% alcohol.
Faulty Analogy Ge 1:1-3, Jn 1:1-3
...I am sinful, but not evil.
Evil is that which is opposed to good. You're
in Christ or you're not (Rom. 5:18, 19). Your rejection of him proves you're
evil (Heb 3:12).
Fine. Jesus was perfect. It's still nonsensical that all the rest of us
humans somehow have free will but will inevitably sin...
You sin because you're a sinner. Become a saint of the living God.
Then, you won't sin (Ro 6:18). I'm off the market.
I'm only waiting
from my bridegroom to pick up his purchased possession.
"The Greek word exagorazo means “to buy out of the market,” and it has the
thought of buying something for one’s own use. You see, somebody could go into
the marketplace and buy that roast and those vegetables and go down to the next
town, where they are short of those items, and put them up for sale at a profit.
Exagorazo means, however, to take goods out of the market place and never to
sell them again, but rather to keep them for one’s own use. This is the word
which is used in Galatians 3:13: “Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the
law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that
hangeth on a tree.” This means that Christ redeemed us so that we would not be
exposed for sale again. He has paid the price, and He has taken us off the
market. We belong to Him." McGee, J. V. (1997). Thru the Bible commentary
(electronic ed., Vol. 5, pp. 219–220). Nashville: Thomas Nelson.
America
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Every time I see your thread title, I hear the song "Freewill"
by Rush.
Better than
Free Fallin'.
Jn 8:34, 2 Pe 2:21
Too bad nothing in your reply addresses free will...
You have a will.
"You are free to choose. You are not free not to
choose. No choice is a choice. You are free to choose but you are not free to
choose the consequences of that choice." ~ Adrian Rogers
...[I]f I believed that a god suffered and died for my salvation
and asks in return that I not sin, I wouldn't sin.
If you loved him.
The only time in scripture that Jesus did
not pray with the
title Father
in scripture was when he cried out, "My God, my
God, why hast thou forsaken me?" That was when
he represented you and me up there on that cross (Mt 27:46).
I
Choose Free Will