| Free-will is a myth. Here's why, if two spiritually dead sinners have the gospel preached to them and one believes and the other does not, what was the deciding factor? Was it God or man? If you say God then there is no free-will, because God is the factor and if you say man, then there must be something in the one that believed that gave him the ability to believe that the other did not have. If the one that did not believe, did not have what it takes to believe, then he does not have free-will to choose Christ. If God is the deciding factor and all sinners are the same(DEAD) then salvation is back on God and is 100% of God, not 99%, but 100%. Then God must not be trying to save every single person.
Here is another point. If God has perfect knowledge of everything and He knows that you will choose B and not A. When the time comes to choose, do you really have the freedom to choose A? If you did choose A, wouldn't that make God wrong? No one has the power to do that, do they? Before God created man, He knew that man would fall and He did nothing to stop it and He still put the tree of knowledge of good and evil in the garden and told Adam not to eat, knowing full well that He would. God is all powerful and the creator of all things and He is immutable, then I have to conclude that everything is within the will of God and that would include the fall and everyone that is saved and those that are not. Eph 1:11 In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will: I believe He has always bee working all things out according to the counsel of His will, before the fall, during the fall and after the fall, all the way up until now and beyond forever. HE IS GOD! Have I underestimated the ability of man and over estimated the ability of God? I don't think so. Posted: Mar 13th 2006, 03:56 PM |
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