9 Whoever transgresses and does not abide in the doctrine of Christ does not have God. He who abides in the doctrine of Christ has both the Father and the Son.
2 John 1:9 (NKJV)
So is it the doctrine of your church or a pastor who told you humans have free will or is that somewhere in there, in the Bible. Got a chapter or a verse where God says heh Adam its your choice.
2006-08-18 02:43:43 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I will admit I don't know where that is in the bible, but think about it.
God is always giving His people the choice to either do what He says or not.
God told Adam and Eve not to eat from the tree in the middle of the garden, but He left it there out in the open for them to choose if they wanted to eat from it or not.
If God didn't want to give them free will, He simply wouldn't have put that tree there, or blocked it off so that they couldn't get to it.
Likewise, Eve chose to listen to the serpent, and Adam chose to eat the fruit she gave him. Even after that, they chose to try to hide from God after they had eaten the forbidden fruit.
If God didn't want them to have the right to choose, don't you think that would have went diffrently? He wouldn't have put that tree there, He wouldn't have let them eat the fruit, and He wouldn't have let them try to hide.
The Bible is full of free will. If God didn't give us or any of the people in the bible free will, how do we make mistakes? How are we able to choose that we want to follow Him or not? God doesn't force anyone to serve Him, He wants us to freely choose to follow Him. He's already got a host of angels and other divine creatures with Him that He didn't give free will. That was a deal that He only gave to humanity, and by and large we're flushing it down the toilet.
He wants us to choose to be with Him. He could make us if He really wanted, but He chooses not to. Think about that.
2006-08-18 03:01:00 · answer #1 · answered by Erick 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Any command in the Bible. Why are there any commands or instructions in the Bible if we have no choice or free will? It would make no sense, if there were no possibility of any other option. Commands are given and we can choose to obey them or reject them. We can choose to come to God or away from him.
But notice the following specific verses that show choice, or free will.
“And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.” (Joshua 24:15)
“I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live.” (Deuteronomy 30:19)
“Refuse the evil and choose the good” (Isaiah 7:15-16)
The Gospel was to be preached to everyone (Mark 16:15-16), not just the chosen, the elite, or the elect.
Revelation 22:17 says, “Whosoever will…” can be saved. This is talking about man’s will or choice to follow God.
God is “not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.” (2 Peter 3:9) This is God’s will, but he has given us the ability to choose. Because of this choice, not all will come to repentance.
2006-08-18 06:26:17 · answer #2 · answered by JoeBama 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The doctrine of free-will is still controversial amongst Protestant sects; I think it's safe to say that a Protestant will never argue that there is some sort of complete free will. I believe in what many consider the "meet you halfway" version of free will. It's an argument straight from Arminianism: you must accept Jesus Christ for your salvation, good works do not matter, atonement for sin was potentially for all people, and (which is contrary to many who believe in no free will) God created a human ability to resist salvation and even lose salvation since salvation comes from continued faith.
This means that there is predestination, but not on who will believe since we all do deep down, but who will choose to embrace those beliefs.
2006-08-18 02:58:49 · answer #3 · answered by enseen61 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Free will is doctrine, not scripture. People confuse knowledge with wisdom. You can pick and choose what you want to believe, where you want to eat, and the color of the clothes you want to were. You use knowledge to make those decisions. We don't have a lot of choice, about what we fear. And we are very limited in our response to fear. Free will as a doctrine, really only applies to acceptance of God's world, and compliance with his rules.
2006-08-18 08:03:01 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Adam is given an instruction in Genesis chapter 2:
You may freely eat of every tree of the garden; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat...(verses 16-17)
2006-08-18 02:54:06 · answer #5 · answered by andy c 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
that term 'free will' is not in the bible. there is no such thing as absolute free will, I have come to reason, but some strange interplay between human will - or choice - and God's will. God hardened pharoah's heart 7 times, and the only conclusion to reach is that God was manipulating pharoah's portion of will with his own.
2006-08-18 02:55:01 · answer #6 · answered by WHITE TRASH ARMENIAN 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If Adam and Eve didn't have freewill, would God ask them to make a wise choice on what tree to eat from? Adam and Eve were supposed to be responsible for their own actions, but they blew it by listening to the devil.
2006-08-18 02:48:27 · answer #7 · answered by Cyber 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Last time I went to church ages ago the Reverend said free will did not exist.. that our lives were planned out from the moment to birth from the moment of death - no escaping the life planned for you. I didn't buy it.. I exerted my free will and left christianity.
2006-08-18 08:37:10 · answer #8 · answered by genaddt 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm still looking. But yeah, i've always heard god gave man the choice to choose or not choose his path and he would judge them accordingly.
Don't knock it, its one of the few things in Christianity that makes sense to me.
Oh yeah, go here, good article on the subject:
http://www.founders.org/FJ25/article2.html
2006-08-18 02:55:34 · answer #9 · answered by Lotus Phoenix 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-11-05 02:18:00 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋