Do you believe in free will or predestination?

Answer 1

God has predestined every single one of us. The bible says that it isn't God's will that any should perish. But He gave us free will that gives us the power to walk away from His will.

So my answer is I believe in both.

Answer 2

Both. I believe that we all have free will, to sin or not to sin, but once we choose to follow the Lord we are predestined to serve Him. They Lord will guide our lives, with the Word as a lamp unto our feet. Our predestination is eternity with the Father, as the Bride of Christ.

Rev. 3:20

Answer 3

Both in a way... There is no one here to tell you how to behave and what to do so you have free will. God is not in our time line and therefore knows the past and the future because all time is present before Him. So He already knows where your free will has taken you. Is that predestination? In a way... Jim

Answer 4

Both, predestination takes you to the crossroad, free will makes you choose a direction. Or is it the other way around?

Answer 5

I believe in predestination to an extent. God has complete control of our lives. However, we can take control back by making a decision against what we normally would.

Answer 6

there's no such thing as utter freedom (it could harm society and society has made the rules). Therefore there can't be utterly free will and therefore not 'free'will.
Predestination on the other hand suggests on its own that sb else determines things and not us. So, It is always likely!
At the end of the day ur question adds up to "Do u believe there is God?"
In conclusion I believe that there is God because i refuse to believe that there isn't

Answer 7

I haven't actually studied this subject. But since it isn't God's will that anyone perish, I lean toward free will. Predestination allows for too many difficulties, such as, why should we bother preaching the gospel?

Answer 8

A little bit of both. I believe we have free will but I also believe that we all have something we are destined to do with our lives and have a special purpose but the choices we make can sometimes throw us off from what we are meant to do

Answer 9

Principals & Free Will

Free Will

The power and choice to love and do right, as well as, to hate and do wrong. We are born into sin because of Adam and Eve, and we will sin from time to time, but how much and how often comes from our own choice to follow the Lord or follow the devil.

The more you study the Word and pray and walk on that Narrow Road (Matthew Chapter 7), the less your desire to sin will become.

God could force you to follow Him, but that is not what he wants. He wants you to make a choice to come to Him of your own free will. We decide what we want to do, be it right or wrong and in doing so we decide if we want to live or die.

God deserves intelligent and willing obedience, rather than ignorant, mechanical service from his children.

Life is a favor, a gift of God, and it will be continued everlastingly only to the obedient.

Principals

Right Principal: The principal which is beneficial and productive of ultimate order, harmony, and happiness (Good)

You will find the right principals from reading your bible, listening to spiritual leaders who are true shepherds for the Lord, and those who are already on the walk.

Wrong Principal: Productive of discord, unhappiness, and destruction (Evil)

You will be taught wrong principals by those who live by the world’s standards, which are contradictory to the bible.

*Your conscience, or moral sense, is the faculty of discerning between right and wrong principals

Once you are taught right from wrong, then your daily choices become a matter of free will to commit sin or not.

Answer 10

Both, kind of. I believe that God has certain opportunities in place for us that we can make the choice to take or reject. Of course, that would be better defined as foreordination. So, maybe I don't believe in predestination, per say.