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I will have to disagree most strongly! We live in a fallen world. Everything will happen that is God's will eventually, but not yet. We would not even have to strive for any good at all if all was God's will. We still have murderers and demonic s and if we know God this is not his will. This is not a Christian teaching!
We may have will, even the demons have will. But these 'wills' are always in conformity with God's will.
I personally know one person who knew 30 years ago that God had a calling on their life.
He chose not to fulfill it and instead spent those 30 years in the wilderness of destructive behavior, personal loss, and pain.
Today he has come back fully to Christ. He is working to fulfill the calling God revealed to him 30 years ago.
While God KNEW the man was going to do this, I have a difficult time thinking that the sin, the damage of that sin, both to him and those he hurt, was "God's will."
Hammer ???Perhaps you (and they) have not stopped to think that in order for that calling to be fulfilled he needed to go through those trials and testing in order for the metal of his heart to be properly tempered for the Hammer of The Lord to bend his will ultimately to the calling.
I would have to disagree because man-kind has a will of it's own which is often against God's will. Rape, stealing, fornication, adultery, murder, gossip, pride are all against God's will, and yet it runs rampant in the Earth.
Hammer ???
.I would reword that to Everything happens by God's decree.