I think free will is when we accept something because we understand that, or we see that makes sense in some way, but some people follow it not because it makes sense, but because they are too afraid to deny it even when you point obvious flaws in it. Those who are like this must have a very weak will, even if what they believe is flawed they can´t be free of it ! Why... Fear perhaps... or it is something else?
I feel that this life is all about free will.....That's one of the purposes of it...to grow and learn....To put reins on it would be mans doings...A control thing......If we are apart of "All there is", then free will is what we are....or should be....Not having it is myth based....Control I say, Control....People use control on others...It's called "Conditional Love"...and have placed it on the creative force.....It's all about you give up your will to me.....A power thing.
Originally posted by debbiejo
I feel that this life is all about free will.....That's one of the purposes of it...to grow and learn....To put reins on it would be mans doings...A control thing......If we are apart of "All there is", then free will is what we are....or should be....Not having it is myth based....Control I say, Control....People use control on others...It's called "Conditional Love"...and have placed it on the creative force.....It's all about you give up your will to me.....A power thing.
I agree, I think this life is about free will too. I think its about finding our "identity"... to know who I am... and to know who we are, is to have free will. Someone who knows himself, knows what is better for himself, but if we don´t know ourselves we let others tell us what is better for ourselves.
to know who I am... and to know who we are
If you could be
Here close to me
I know - love
We were meant for each other
We will love one another
And it won't really matter at all
Who we are
No one has free will according to The Bible:
Acts 13:48When the Gentiles heard this, they began rejoicing and glorifying the word of the Lord; and as many as had been appointed to eternal life believed.
Ephesians 1:4-5Just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him In love, He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will…
Jude 1:4For certain persons have crept in unnoticed, those who were long beforehand marked out for this condemnation, ungodly persons who turn the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
Romans 8:29-30For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren; and these whom He predestined, He also called; and these whom He called, He also justified; and these whom He justified, He also glorified.
Romans 9:11-22For though the twins were not yet born and had not done anything good or bad, so that God's purpose according to His choice would stand, not because of works but because of Him who calls, it was said to her, "THE OLDER WILL SERVE THE YOUNGER."
Just as it is written, "JACOB I LOVED, BUT ESAU I HATED."
What shall we say then? There is no injustice with God, is there? May it never be!
For He says to Moses, "I WILL HAVE MERCY ON WHOM I HAVE MERCY, AND I WILL HAVE COMPASSION ON WHOM I HAVE COMPASSION."
So then it does not depend on the man who wills or the man who runs, but on God who has mercy.
For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, "FOR THIS VERY PURPOSE I RAISED YOU UP, TO DEMONSTRATE MY POWER IN YOU, AND THAT MY NAME MIGHT BE PROCLAIMED THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE EARTH."
So then He has mercy on whom He desires, and He hardens whom He desires.
You will say to me then, "Why does He still find fault? For who resists His will?"
On the contrary, who are you, O man, who answers back to God? The thing molded will not say to the molder, "Why did you make me like this," will it?
Or does not the potter have a right over the clay, to make from the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for common use?
What if God, although willing to demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction?
2 Thessalonians 2:11-12For this reason God will send upon them a deluding influence so that they will believe what is false, in order that they all may be judged who did not believe the truth, but took pleasure in wickedness.
2 Timothy 1:9Who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was granted us in Christ Jesus from all eternity…