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The Jews to whom Moses was writing were believers in God. Moses was encouraging them to make good choices by following God's wishes.This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life,
When it comes to our spiritual lives, we may have complete free will. What say you? It appears it is the physical aspects of our lives that free will appears to be limited.As I said. We have LIMITED free will and can and do make choices.
At the moment we're in the flesh, not the spirit. I believe choice is available in both realms. Ultimately ALL choose Jesus and when they do they will be instantaneously transformed into perfection and will then no longer want to sin and will live forever in God's kingdom.When it comes to our spiritual lives, we may have complete free will. What say you? It appears it is the physical aspects of our lives that free will appears to be limited.
Transformed into perfection? Imagine a community of perfect people. All the perfect size with the perfect personality, perfectly doing and completing all we set our hands to. If this is the case, I suspect we will all be perfectly bored.At the moment we're in the flesh, not the spirit. I believe choice is available in both realms. Ultimately ALL choose Jesus and when they do they will be instantaneously transformed into perfection and will then no longer want to sin and will live forever in God's kingdom.
That isn't what "perfect" means.Transformed into perfection? Imagine a community of perfect people. All the perfect size with the perfect personality, perfectly doing and completing all we set our hands to. If this is the case, I suspect we will all be perfectly bored.
We will be pure like Jesus. I can assure you that we will never be bored.Transformed into perfection? Imagine a community of perfect people. All the perfect size with the perfect personality, perfectly doing and completing all we set our hands to. If this is the case, I suspect we will all be perfectly bored.
Care to rewrite that so it makes sense?
As I said. We have LIMITED free will and can and do make choices.
There are believers who choose NOT to follow God. Jesus spoke of them.
Matthew 7:21-23 ESV
21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ 23 And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’
Your post made no grammatical senseNot until you state whether you agree bearing falsehoods is evil ... because you didn't answer, I assume you're just lying about this ...
The statement makes perfect sense ... not answering is an answer in of itself ...
does Taoism allow lying little girls? ...
Ultimately a lot of people did not choose Jesus and never willAt the moment we're in the flesh, not the spirit. I believe choice is available in both realms. Ultimately ALL choose Jesus and when they do they will be instantaneously transformed into perfection and will then no longer want to sin and will live forever in God's kingdom.
Ultimately a lot of people did not choose Jesus and never will
That's funny. And more denial of free willThey will. The Bible says so.
The irony being that you instead worship wealthy self serving humans pushing a narrative that you swallow hook, line, sinker and boat motor.When I was 10 years old, we had a dog named Silver. A sealyham - sort of a largish Westie. He had been struck by a car when I was much younger and that had left him blind in one eye. We adapted. He adapted. But whenever he entered an unfamiliar space (the furniture moved, for instance) he would collide with things. I felt bad for him. Like most children my age I believed what I was told was the truth by my parents and the church they took me to. So I prayed as fervently and selflessly as I could manage that God would restore his vision. But, as would happen in any bad movie, his poor vision led Silver to wandering out in front of another car where he suffered another concussion which left him completely blind. Now all dogs go to heaven because all dogs are innocent. Every non-human form of life is innocent of the many sins the Bible spells out. Initially, I was angry. How could God cause my innocent dog to suffer, regardless of his motive or intent? The standard "mysterious ways" line didn't help at all. What did help was the realization that the best explanation was not that god was mysterious or unknowable, but that he simply wasn't there. The existence of the god described by the Bible and by our preacher and the believers I would talk with was simply not possible; not only because it violated all the laws of nature but because absolutely no evidence I could find supported the idea. Every thing I could learn about the world and how it worked refuted the idea of a caring, personal god who had created miraculous humans and a miraculous Earth to be their home and was everpresent, watching over us and, on proper supplication, violating the laws that he himself had set in place - if he felt like it.
As the years went by I simply became more and more convinced that there is a great deal about the working of the universe we do not yet know, but the basics - the principal of uniformitarianism, holds, everywhere and everywhen. Nothing is supernatural. No will directs or inspires the stream of events taking place over the passage of time. Only physics.
What signs or signals should I have caught that might have lured me back to my childhood faith? And how might my life have been different had I done so? I have lots of friends and I'm pretty sure most of them think I'm a nice guy. I buy fully and heartily into the Golden Rule. I believe it to be the sole basis of human civilization. How do you think my complete lack of divine faith hurt me? Will your god throw into a lake of fire because I led a good life but failed to do him obeisance? That is, of course, precisely what scriptures tells us. Why would ANY of you believe, much less WORSHIP such a god? He seems a monster. Would anyone care to correct me?
There is either free will or there isn't.
If you can't choose some things and are compelled to choose others there is no free will
Where did he state that?The irony being that you instead worship wealthy self serving humans pushing a narrative that you swallow hook, line, sinker and boat motor.
That's funny. And more denial of free will
When I was 10 years old, we had a dog named Silver. A sealyham - sort of a largish Westie. He had been struck by a car when I was much younger and that had left him blind in one eye. We adapted. He adapted. But whenever he entered an unfamiliar space (the furniture moved, for instance) he would collide with things. I felt bad for him. Like most children my age I believed what I was told was the truth by my parents and the church they took me to. So I prayed as fervently and selflessly as I could manage that God would restore his vision. But, as would happen in any bad movie, his poor vision led Silver to wandering out in front of another car where he suffered another concussion which left him completely blind. Now all dogs go to heaven because all dogs are innocent. Every non-human form of life is innocent of the many sins the Bible spells out. Initially, I was angry. How could God cause my innocent dog to suffer, regardless of his motive or intent? The standard "mysterious ways" line didn't help at all. What did help was the realization that the best explanation was not that god was mysterious or unknowable, but that he simply wasn't there. The existence of the god described by the Bible and by our preacher and the believers I would talk with was simply not possible; not only because it violated all the laws of nature but because absolutely no evidence I could find supported the idea. Every thing I could learn about the world and how it worked refuted the idea of a caring, personal god who had created miraculous humans and a miraculous Earth to be their home and was everpresent, watching over us and, on proper supplication, violating the laws that he himself had set in place - if he felt like it.
As the years went by I simply became more and more convinced that there is a great deal about the working of the universe we do not yet know, but the basics - the principal of uniformitarianism, holds, everywhere and everywhen. Nothing is supernatural. No will directs or inspires the stream of events taking place over the passage of time. Only physics.
What signs or signals should I have caught that might have lured me back to my childhood faith? And how might my life have been different had I done so? I have lots of friends and I'm pretty sure most of them think I'm a nice guy. I buy fully and heartily into the Golden Rule. I believe it to be the sole basis of human civilization. How do you think my complete lack of divine faith hurt me? Will your god throw into a lake of fire because I led a good life but failed to do him obeisance? That is, of course, precisely what scriptures tells us. Why would ANY of you believe, much less WORSHIP such a god? He seems a monster. Would anyone care to correct me?
Hence we have no free willWe have a limited range of choices, hence we have limited free will.
I thought everyone was according to your religion. And that I am going to be forced to come to Jesus no matter what.You don't understand because you are not of God.
