Christian : Which verses in Bible said you have free will and give definition?

Question

Please don't give me answer like I could don' ask this question if I have no freewill. I think defination of freewill is a lot deeper than this.

Prisoner who was jailed wrongly, has choice of eating his meal or not eating. However, he has no choice of staying inside the prison or at bar drinking.

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tebone0315

God said if you don't believe me then go to hell ( is that choice ? )
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Shemus Would

Are you so sure , there is nothing about Freewill in the bible ! Then why all the Christian are using that word.

Answer 1

Matt. 10:22 and Mark 13:13 state that he who endures to the end shall be saved. Heb 10:38 says 'now the just shall live by faith, BUT if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.' Mark 16:24 and Lk 9:23 both state 'if any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. Lk 13:3 and Lk13:5 both state 'I tell you Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.' seems to be a choice there

Answer 2

try these:
genesis 13:10-13 isaiah 66:3
2 chronicles 11:16 genesis 24:54-58
1 samuel 16:1-13 joel 3:14
ezra 7:18 deuteronomy 30:15
proverb 1:29
isaiah 65:12

Answer 3

It means you are not controlled like a puppet by God. That you arent forced in to believing in Him or to worship Him. So you are able to make your own choices. A prisoner is a consequence of a poor choice that one made. So if you play with fire, you may get burned. If you steal, you may get caught. If you have sex with a prostitute you may get a disease. Not all sins are found out or exposed in this lifetime even though it is highly likely all that was in secret will be exposed. God sees you and there is a judgement after we die. God is fair and gives due punishment.
As far as free-will goes it is the choices you make on your own will. God gives you this freedom so that if you do chose God and love Him it is a real love and not a love of one who is programed to love God with a pull string in the back saying "I love you Lord".
John 3:15 - so that whoever believes will in Him have eternal life ( this verse means anyone who choses to believe)
John 11:26 -and everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die
Romans 10:4 - For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.
So you can see from these verses that you have to chose to believe in Jesus and those who do are given eternal life and if you chose something else than Jesus, then you dont get eternal life. He will not accept a fake belief and knows your heart if you are only afraid of going to hell and still prefer to live in sin after saying you believe. God gives all a choice and if they never heard then they are judged according to what they know. God is fair.

Answer 4

The idea of the "will" came out of greek philosophy and ideas. You won't find anything about God's will in the Old Testament. Jesus and the New Testament writers adopted the idea of the "will." Later, it would become the center of Christian theology as early church father's used this concept in defending the faith and establishing doctrine.

The bible does not give a clear definition of the will. The concept of "free will" is one of great debate that theologians and philosophers alike have questioned and struggled over. There is no easy way to define it and there are many ideas and opinions floating around about it. What is it? What is the extent of it? How is it possible considering God is supreme and so is His will?

Obviously, free will doesn't mean we have the freedom to choose whatever we want because slavery exists which oppresses humankind. Sin, itself, is a form of slavery as identified by Jesus, "Anyone who sins is a slave to sin." And as such, we are not as free as we would like to think. You pointed out above that a prisoner no choice of whether or not to stay in prison.

The true freedom we have been granted is something inward and spiritual. Our physical bodies are limiting. We obviously can't fly no matter how hard we flap our arms. Therefore, the will is a matter of the heart which is the place of the spirit.

Inwardly, we may desire or give our heart to anything we wish. Our physical body may be completely restrained keeping us from performing any action, but inwardly we can still make many choices about the world. We just cannot make them happen by our own actions.

Inwardly, we have the freedom to make any choice and more significantly, we have the freedom to believe. We can believe in both truth and lies. We could believe that a pen is blue when it is actually red. We have that choice. Likewise, we may devote our heart to a person or thing. We can fall in love with someone and set our will toward that person.

Our greatest freedom comes in selecting a God. We may choose the authority that rules our heart. We may give ourselves to something and this thing becomes Lord over us. It impacts all our actions and directs our course. For instance, an alcoholic may give themselves to alcohol and be controlled by it. Or we can submit ourselves to a man or woman who becomes the focal point for our entire life and existence. Or, we can give ourselves to ourselves and be our own Lord. The danger of this of course is that we become self-centered and a slave to ourselves.

The will of God is supremely good and one. God doesn't have many wills. He has one will. Humans, however, can have many wills that conflict with one another. We may want to be faithful to our wife because we love her, and yet we cannot help deny that sexy woman who just passed us. Inwardly, our will conflicts. We battle with ourselves.

When we are united as one with God, then our will becomes the same as God's will, and it becomes one. When this happens, we have peace. We have one life and one purpose. It is in harmony with God and everything else that is one with God.

Answer 5

The 10 commandments are the book of rules (analogy) Rules of the Road. Follow them or suffer the consequences. This is free will. A fireman gives his consent when he becomes a fireman. The prayer is for all to be saved from that burning building/ There is your free will. We are all children of God, even you. When a child turns 7yrs old, it is said, that is when they have the power to reason. That is when there free will can be expressed. And finally, limbo wasn''t just a place for babies to go, it was a stepping stone for one last chance to atone for your sins. The pope, who has the authority to make that decision, thought it would be better if we atoned for our sins on earth. Here on earth is our limbo.

Answer 6

Joshua 24:15 (New International Version)
New International Version (NIV)
Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society


15 But if serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your forefathers served beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD."

12See to it, brothers, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God. 13But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called Today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin's deceitfulness. 14We have come to share in Christ if we hold firmly till the end the confidence we had at first. 15As has just been said:
"Today, if you hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts
as you did in the rebellion."[b]
(Hebrews 3:12-15)

Philemon 1:14
but without your consent I did not want to do anything, so that your goodness would not be, in effect, by compulsion but of your own free will.

We have free will.

Answer 7

Sure there is:

Mat 6:9 ... Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
Mat 6:10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
Mat 26:39... O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt.
Mar 14:36 And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee; take away this cup from me: nevertheless not what I will, but what thou wilt.
Luk 22:41 And he was withdrawn from them about a stone's cast, and kneeled down, and prayed,
Luk 22:42 Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.

Problem is, this is only true when you're The Father...

Answer 8

John 3:16 (KJV)
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

This verse is a major example. You have the free will to be saved or not to be saved. He will not force you.

Answer 9

I can imagine everybody in Hell cursing the day they were given free will. But god gave it to them knowing he could then send them to Hell and be rid of them.
Almost as soon as he had created humans he regretted it. That's when he got the brilliant idea of giving them free will.

Answer 10

John 3:16 is a perfect example of free will.

16For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him shall not perish, but have everlasting life.


You have the choice of believing in God or not.