Ronald David Bruno
Well-Known Member
FREE WILL
If man had free will, then he could freely do anything he wanted. But his actions have consequences. "The wages of sin is death", so we are either slaves to God or slaves to Satan. Does that sound free?
If it was truly free, then at death, there would be no judgment, our spirits could freely leavebour bodies and choose to float off into whatever realm we wanted, visit heaven, thebother side of the universe or stick around and haunt some of our foes for awhile. There would be no restrictions, no rules, freedom.
The whole concept of God's Law sets up His creatures for a life mixed with obedience and disobedience. You cannot escape it. We are to gain the knowledge of Good and Evil so that we can appreciate and know God. God created evil, which can be translated as disasters, troubles, calamities.
The whole concept of God's Sovereignty simply means He is in control. All prophecy could not be fulfilled with hair splitting accuracy unless trillions of "our choices and actions" were predestined, pre- determined. BUT WAIT, I am only implying that the significant choices that lead somewhere are the ones I'm talking about; not whether you wear jeans or a suit or eat a burger or spagetti -- the significant moves that are part of His overall plan are ordained - they have to be, otherwise prophecy could not pan out. The Bible says about Jerimiah, "before you were born, I knew you". His life was mapped out, He could not have gone another way and so did exactly what God ordained him to do.
Judas was born to do his deed as well and several prophecies prove this. The significant events are planned.
God has every move that Putin is making or will male in check. There are no surprises with God and they arenkeading usbinto the Great Tribulation! We cannot screw up His plan because we made the wrong choices; as if He would then have to rearrange His plan every single moment in history. All our blunders and sin is factored into His plan.
Actually, most of the time we are not making signicant moves; but what we think is not significant could be to someone else. An encouraging word, a good deed, advice given could change that person's direction. That is when the Holy Spirit is moving and working through us.
If man had free will, then he could freely do anything he wanted. But his actions have consequences. "The wages of sin is death", so we are either slaves to God or slaves to Satan. Does that sound free?
If it was truly free, then at death, there would be no judgment, our spirits could freely leavebour bodies and choose to float off into whatever realm we wanted, visit heaven, thebother side of the universe or stick around and haunt some of our foes for awhile. There would be no restrictions, no rules, freedom.
The whole concept of God's Law sets up His creatures for a life mixed with obedience and disobedience. You cannot escape it. We are to gain the knowledge of Good and Evil so that we can appreciate and know God. God created evil, which can be translated as disasters, troubles, calamities.
The whole concept of God's Sovereignty simply means He is in control. All prophecy could not be fulfilled with hair splitting accuracy unless trillions of "our choices and actions" were predestined, pre- determined. BUT WAIT, I am only implying that the significant choices that lead somewhere are the ones I'm talking about; not whether you wear jeans or a suit or eat a burger or spagetti -- the significant moves that are part of His overall plan are ordained - they have to be, otherwise prophecy could not pan out. The Bible says about Jerimiah, "before you were born, I knew you". His life was mapped out, He could not have gone another way and so did exactly what God ordained him to do.
Judas was born to do his deed as well and several prophecies prove this. The significant events are planned.
God has every move that Putin is making or will male in check. There are no surprises with God and they arenkeading usbinto the Great Tribulation! We cannot screw up His plan because we made the wrong choices; as if He would then have to rearrange His plan every single moment in history. All our blunders and sin is factored into His plan.
Actually, most of the time we are not making signicant moves; but what we think is not significant could be to someone else. An encouraging word, a good deed, advice given could change that person's direction. That is when the Holy Spirit is moving and working through us.