where is the free will if you will end up in hell for not obeying God's words?

Question

if God gives you the true free will, he will let you go to the heaven even if you don't believe in him, don't you think? with Hell, its like saying if you don't come and visit me, i will chop your leg off, where is my free will if i don't obey i will be disfigured? you think you get my point.

Answer 1

We have free will and you have a choice whether you want to repent, ask for forgiveness, and ask Jesus Christ to come into your heart.
Jesus Christ said, "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through Me."

Answer 2

The whole issue of whether a man has a freewill or not is very debatable. There are two sides to Christianity, the Calvinistic side which believes that man does not have a free will and the Arminian side which believes he does. I have asked repeatedly on here for anyone who believes that man has a freewill to simply give one verse out of the Bible that states that man has a freewill, and no one has ever given one. The Bible really teaches that those who are chosen by God are the ones who will end up in heaven with him.

Answer 3

I think you just answered your own question. That is the free will, ending up in hell for not obeying God's words. Man is damaged, and he cannot of his own ability, look to God for salvation.

Unfortunately, you've twisted around the next sentence to God owing Heaven to everyone, and I believe it's just the opposite, he owes no one in the entire human race a trip to heaven at the end of their days on this earth.

It's not a matter, then, of "if you don't come and visit me". No one seeks him, as a result faith must be given.

So your conclusion of not having free will is correct, but you come at it from the wrong angle and extract the wrong corollaries from it.

Answer 4

Free will is there when we live in this earth. Just like how parents give their children freedom yet they want them to live a disciplined life, our creator wants it too. If everyone are given the freedom to do whatever they want the world will be more than worse it is now, cause now since there are some rules people try to be good, if all are bad , then really its so hard to imagine..
Even though I have done so many sins, now I try not to do and ask God to help me out, and I know many around me find me more useful and helpful and kind and good than before.. and even I feel more than better this way...
There may be some pain to live a good life as God wants us to be, but its worth it.

Answer 5

You are given free will but you don't like the consequences of your choice. Can't have it both ways. Sin is fun for a season then you reap the rewards of it. You cannot play with fire and not get burned. God did not want the bad things to happen to you but you choose it, would you rather He tie you up like a dog to protect you from yourself?

Answer 6

There is no free will, it's do or die. They just say that to make you think your doing the right thing. When they really don't want to give you a choice.

EDIT*
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Inquisition
Crusades
The Holocaust (yes I include that - Hitler was a devout Catholic)
The Witch Trials

The list goes on. Where did the follower of Christ offer free will?

Answer 7

Free will, heaven, hell and god are all creations of Humans, so I don't put much faith in following any of them, just myself, because I know I can trusat myself than anything else I hear.

Answer 8

There's no free will in God's kingdom. You eiyther comply or you are damned!

Answer 9

There will be two kingdoms, you will go and serve in the one you believe in. A person who did not love Jesus would be miserable to have Him as King. Jesus will not impose His will on anyone.

Answer 10

"I am no Hindu, but I hold the doctrine of the Hindus concerning a future state (rebirth) to be incomparably more rational, more pious, and more likely to deter men from vice than the horrid opinions inculcated by Christians on punishments without end."
-Sir William Jones

This does not mean to make derogatory statements against Lord Jesus Christ. He had to preach God Consciousness to people who were not very advanced and thus he had to give a limited knowledge according to their capacity. Jesus knew everything but did not disclose everything as he told his disciples that their ear cannot bear to hear what he has to say. A teacher well versed in higher mathematics does not teach calculus or albegra etc... to kinter garden or primary grade students.

Free-will is what you choose which is limited according to one's karma(action). Pious karma leads to happiness. Impious karma gives misery and suffering. Even while suffering or enjoying one can create fresh good or bad karma and consequently enjoy or suffer. Creating fresh karma is within one's free will. For instance, if one is flying in a airplane from New York to Delhi, the destination is fixed. He can do nothing about changing that karma he created which is going to Delhi. But, he exercise his free will in Airplane and execute some actions like sleeping, reading, watching movie etc. . . which in turn creates another result .

John Nordheimer of the New York Times asked founder-acharya of ISKCOn,Srila Prabhupada,: Is that preordained, or is it by free choice?

Prabhupada: Free choice. What is preordained? You are here of your free choice. If you like, you can sit down and talk with me, and if you don't like, then you can go. That is your free choice. Free choice makes destiny; if I act in goodness, then my future is good. And if I act badly, my future is bad. That is destiny. Man is the architect of his own destiny. If you are educated, your future is nice, and if you remain foolish, then your future is bad. Future destiny depends on present action. This life is an opportunity to make the next life, and if we behave like human beings, then in our next life we will go back home, back to Godhead. But if we behave like animals, then in the next life we will take animal bodies. That's all. All this is very nicely described in Bhagavad-gita. The conclusion is that human beings are meant for understanding God, but if we waste our time understanding dog, and if we become attached to dog, then we will become dogs in our next life. And if we are attached to God, we become like God, in our next life. The choice is ours.