Originally posted by Lord Urizen
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Apparently not. You have made your choice.In fact, let's have a thought experiment.
I give you an ultimatum: either become a Christian within twenty-four hours or I'm going to come to your house and murder you.
What are your choices?
1. You can become a Christian. No one is injured.
2. You can pretend to become a Christian. No one is injured.
3. You can run away. I might pursue you, leading to conflict, but, in regards to immediate consequences, no one is injured.
4. You can wait for me and fight. One of us is injured and/or killed.
5. You can wait for me and try to reason with me. I'm a crazed fanatical Christian, though, so you're going to end up dead.
6. You can combine any of the above, changing the outcome.
Seems like you have a lot of free will to me.
Way to ignore the post.God is just. To be just means that some things are rewarded while others are punished. Because we have sinned, we must be punished--and that punishment is death. However, because God loves us so, He has sent someone to die in our place so that we might not suffer the penalty for sin.
You are given the choice of accepting the scapegoat to take death instead of you.
1. I am speaking from the Judeo-Christian perspective. The Bible--upon which the Judeo-Christian faith is founded--states that Yahweh is just. Therefore, Yahweh is just.2. To give judgment means that one must judge (or "to act as a judge; pass judgment"😉. To judge is "to pass legal judgment on; pass sentence on (a person)" or "to hear evidence or legal arguments in (a case) in order to pass judgment; adjudicate; try" or "to decide or settle authoritatively; adjudge".
3. It might seem to be unacceptable to you, but you have not stretch out your hand and marked off the dimension of the universe, you have not spoken to the waters and held them back with an utterance, and you have not seen the gates of deep shadow. You are not given the authority to decide what is acceptable and what is not.
4. See number one.
5. Too much 'allegedly' spoils the broth. And I believe that people were judged according to how they served the LORD by following the Law. However, I am uncertain, as I have stated in the past.
6. Jesus was, quite honestly, a scapegoat.
7. I've already explained to you why God and free-will can exist.
You are so blinded by your adamant disbelief that I seriously wonder if you can hold a rational conversation with someone.
The funny thing Feceman, is that it explains absolutely nothing.....
First you say that we can either choose Jesus or Death...regardless, all of us will die...so are you saying that if you beleive in Jesus, you won't die ? 🙄
Secondly, you never answered the actual question: How does an Omnipotent God co exist with Free Will ?
Omnipotence is the all power...power to do all, power to know all, consisting of and being beyond all.....
If God knows all, and if he can do all, then Free Will cannot exist. If God already knew the outcome out our lives and deaths, then it is already done, and there is no choice...because no matter what we do, the same result will spawn.
Secondly, if God is all powerful, then Free Will cannot exist, because Free Will limits God....God cannot interfere with the totality of our lives, because that would violate free will...rendering him limitted, and NOT omnipotent...
Can you sincerely argue otherwise ?