Does God have Free Will?

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Dave L

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That again, assumes change in whom there is no change.

The idea of God having a "nature", is somewhat of a departure also. It suggests that He is less infinite than should be attributed to Him. Created things and people have "nature", because they fall into a "type", "interest" or "influence", all of which are limitations.
Pure sovereignty does not change but what it wills can change in order to maintain sovereignty.
 

ScottA

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You're all over the place and your comment is self-contradictory.

To say that God can add to his perfection "expanding his tent" is a rather cursory remark. This type of thinking leads to errors such as Open Theism.

Note Acts 17:29. Note Psalm 50:21. God is to be thought of on a much much higher plane, he is not like us.

God is perfect. This perfection cannot be added to, as, if it were, then he is not nor was ever perfect. To say he is adding to his perfection is to be as off track as Harry Emerson Fosdick.

It appears that much of your posting has to do with some sort of philosophy, attempts to make a splash, or show some sort of wisdom which is why they are off base and unbiblical. Stick to the Scriptures, 2 Timothy 4:1-4; 2 Timothy 2:15 and its teachings, not your own understanding. Nothing you've stated here is biblical doctrine.
Of course the use of a biblical principle could not get past the wall of your personal begrudgery. Makes since.
 

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Pure sovereignty does not change but what it wills can change in order to maintain sovereignty.
That is all good, but does not address the end of each of the factors. If "God is the same yesterday, today, and forever", and also "perfect"...then to add "all in all", simply brings us to the dilemma of the idea considered over time. At which place, "I am" includes all of the "above", but is without limit. Which place we should indeed seek, for this is the reality of God, that "where He is we might be also."

Thus, any use of chronology, past, present, and future, would be off the table as not applicable to God (including we "all in all"), making the chronology that we experience in need of a new definition...or rather the only true definition, which is only true of a story written and told: written timelessly within God, but told within the story line of the world, which is apart from Him.

But who can receive it, except in the face of God, where these things have always been true?
 

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That is, does God arbitrarily will his nature? Or does his nature determine his will?
The words "arbitrarily" and "God" are incompatible. But your theology -- Calvinism -- makes God arbitrarily choose some for salvation and others for damnation.

1. God does ABSOLUTELY NOTHING arbitrarily as we note from Scripture.

2. God DOES NOT decree sin and evil on this earth (as claimed by Calvinists)

3. God DOES NOT decree the salvation of some and the damnation of others.
 
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The words "arbitrarily" and "God" are incompatible. But your theology -- Calvinism -- makes God arbitrarily choose some for salvation and others for damnation.

1. God does ABSOLUTELY NOTHING arbitrarily as we note from Scripture.

2. God DOES NOT decree sin and evil on this earth (as claimed by Calvinists)

3. God DOES NOT decree the salvation of some and the damnation of others.
If God is not a respecter of persons, his election of some to salvation is purely arbitrary.