"Many of my pastor brothers love to tell us that our free will is so precious to God that because of His great love to us He dares not violate it. But He sure violated it in the fall. God apparently to some does not mind violating your free will in order for you to perish, but He becomes suddenly reluctant to violate your free will to save you. Where was your free will when Adam plunged you into death???"
Showing posts with label Free Will. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Free Will. Show all posts
Friday, April 26, 2013
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
The Offended Sheep
"I am deeply offended that you did not let me exercise my free will choice to be saved."
- The lost sheep to the shepherd, right after the the shepherd found it.
Monday, February 11, 2013
Can God Fail?
God is love. God so loved the world, not just the Christians. Christ is the Savior of all! Hell is a mistranslation. God is capable of saving all of his creation.
"Cute. I love your sentiments, but you are wrong. Isaiah 55:8-9 ESV says, “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.
I appreciate your candor, but based on this scripture, God does not think like us. His ways are higher than ours. Therefore, hell is real."
Thank you for sharing that scripture. Note that it starts with "For my thoughts…"
Thank you for sharing that scripture. Note that it starts with "For my thoughts…"
I am not a Grammar virtuoso, but whenever there is a 'for' or 'therefore' in a sentence, it is never a beginning of a topic. We need to find what the 'for' or 'therefore' is there for.
In this context, the topic starts at verse 6: "Seek the Lord while he may be found; call upon him while he is near; 7 let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon."
Isaiah was addressing the wicked or the unrighteous.
We are not living in the times of Isaiah. We have been made righteous (Romans 5:19). If righteousness is earned by our good works, then it would be called self-righteousness. If self-righteousness is the goal, then Christ died in vain (Galatians 2:21).
Fortunately, as common sense would agree, neither can God fail, nor does he tremble at human's supposed free-will.
In this context, the topic starts at verse 6: "Seek the Lord while he may be found; call upon him while he is near; 7 let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon."
Isaiah was addressing the wicked or the unrighteous.
We are not living in the times of Isaiah. We have been made righteous (Romans 5:19). If righteousness is earned by our good works, then it would be called self-righteousness. If self-righteousness is the goal, then Christ died in vain (Galatians 2:21).
Fortunately, as common sense would agree, neither can God fail, nor does he tremble at human's supposed free-will.
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