What a concocted twisted mess.
* Mankind is naturally born AGAINST God.
Pss 51:
5: Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.
* Gods Works, IS God revealing to mankind...
Gods Word, Gods Truth, Gods Order, Gods Way, Gods Life.
**Order:
Col 1:
17: And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
** Way, Truth, Life
John 14:
6: Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
God IS all knowing. God KNOWS before a man is naturally born, what a man will Freely Choose and Do.
Man is NOT all knowing. Man is born in sin Against God. Man "can Choose" to Hear, Learn, Discover, ABOUT God "revealing" Works, of Who He is, What He Offers to men..."Or NOT."
Mans FREEWILL ^^^ Hear or Not.
Mans FREEWILL ^^^ Believe or Not.
Mans FReEWILL ^^^ Commit or Not.
* Not a big secret...God already KNOWS what a man WILL CHOOSE.
* Not a big secret...Mans Decides to Hear, Believe, Reject, or Accept.
* Not a big secret...A man can not CHOOSE to Believe in "something" he does not FIRST have KNOWLEDGE there is a "something".
* Not a big secret...God is All Knowing...He makes the FIRST Choice.
* Not a big secret...God Chooses to CALL unto Him, Men "God KNOWS", WILL ALSO FREELY CHOOSE "HIM"!!!
If YOU have ever participated in Voting for "anything" / "anyone", you SHOULD be Keen enough to KNOW....YOU are "CHOOSING", making an "ELECTION", "Voting FOR", Expressing "your FREEWILL".
You SHOULD study the Scriptures that actually TEACH what is being discussed.
* God IS FIRST, Before ALL things.
* God Reveals His WORKS to mankind.
....(open your eyes, your ears, Look, see, hear Gods Works)
* God Chooses FIRST, whom He WiLL, "HIS WILL" His Call.
* Man WHO sees, Man WHO hears... thereafter FREELY Chooses/Elects the Lord God....or NOT!
God IS JUST. God "CALLS" MANY.
(Mans "opportunity", to see and hear)
God IS JUST. God "CHOOSES" men WHO,
CHOOSE/Elect "HIM"!!
Matt 22:
14 For many are called, but few are chosen.
HUMMMM....So HOW DO YOU KNOW, YOU ARE CHOSEN of God?
Can't say FOR YOU. But For me... I expressly KNOW, I am Chosen BY the Lord God...
BECAUSE;
I FREELY CHOSE, to Hear Gods WORKS, His Word, His Order, His Way, His Truth.
I FREELY CHOSE, to Believe What I heard of the Lord God.
I FREELY CHOSE, to "ELECT" Choose the Lord God, as MY God, MY Lord, MY Savior, My Forgiver, My Creator, MY Maker, MY Truth, My Life giver.
And guess what...He Acknowledged, And Accepted My express choice and commitment to Him, Once and Forever, according to His Own Faithfulness and Word of Promise.
1 Thes 1;
[4] Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God.
And guess what....
BECAUSE I have made Known to the Lord God, MY ELECTION OF the Lord God Almighty...
The Lord God Himself "INCLUDED" me (via His Grace, His Power, His Word) to MAKE me, "CHANGED"....MADE WHOLE...(before "MY" physical death).
The Lord God Himself "EXCLUDED" me (via His Grace, His Power, His Word) to MAKE me, Appointed TO suffer, the next (and last) great Tribulation and Wrath prophecy, that SHALL come upon the Earth.
1 Thes 5:
[9] For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
I am, ALREADY DELIVERED FROM the WRATH TO COME.
1 Thes 1:
[10] And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.
Adam was instructed to NOT eat of a particular Tree. (ONE prohibition).
Temptation, (of something good to eat), over came Adam, and he FREELY Chose to Eat what was forbidden for him to Eat (to avoid a negative consequence).
Ta da....Adam exercised "his FREEWILL".
Ta da....Adam became "appointed to" bodily Death...THE CONSEQUENCE...for freely choosing to Eat of that forbidden tree.
Ta da...We all have free will to CHOOSE, what we Decide to Choose.
We are all warned of the "consequences" for our freewill choices.
No one escapes the "consequences".
Adams Choice to eat, DID NOT effect His Salvation. What it effected was, his physical body would die, and it did.
We clearly learn, Adam believed IN God, and Adams soul was Saved.
All mens physical body's SHALL Die...
But God provides all men, An Order, Way, means (to be MADE WHOLE)...for mankinds soul to be saved, their spirit reborn, and their body to become made changed into a glorious perfected body.
Glory to God,
Taken