There was a choice once given to Adam and Eve, but it was an uninformed choice. It gave the consequences of either choice, but not the reasoning behind each one. Once those first humans decided to take it upon themselves to follow their own will, the millennia of discovering whose will was wiser, God's or man's, was put into practice. We were expected to learn the folly of our self serving ways. Man of course foolishly preferred to think we were improving with time, while simply chasing our tails. Those with the wisdom looked back and saw the same and continual repetitions of man that doomed their ways to failure over and over again. They see it practiced daily in our current lives which will lead to the same results. They can compare it to God's will and how His ways lead to examples of differing and contrary results.
As a result they now have an informed choice to make which hopefully leads to repentance of the self serving ways of our own will in favour of the ways related to the will of God. The choice is still there but it is an informed one for those willing to listen and not put faith in the will and ways of mankind. Sadly many Christians in particular have tried to manipulate their religion in order to self justify having it both ways, but they are only fooling themselves. God lived among man many times as shown in the Bible, only to leave as the people continually turned to building this world and religion in our own image instead of His. When He does return as is promised in the Lord's Prayer many pay lip service to, there will no longer be any room for scoffers, their chance at repentance of their own ways gone, many's delusions that they can have it both ways, no more.
God made it clear:
Luke 16: 15 And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.
James 1:27 Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
Romans 12:2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
James 4:4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
Follow the counter-culture of the Kingdom as taught by Jesus, and reject the institutions and doctrines of man. As Jesus told Peter and the other Apostles, truth comes only from the Father and not the mouths and minds of mankind.
© ...timothyu
As a result they now have an informed choice to make which hopefully leads to repentance of the self serving ways of our own will in favour of the ways related to the will of God. The choice is still there but it is an informed one for those willing to listen and not put faith in the will and ways of mankind. Sadly many Christians in particular have tried to manipulate their religion in order to self justify having it both ways, but they are only fooling themselves. God lived among man many times as shown in the Bible, only to leave as the people continually turned to building this world and religion in our own image instead of His. When He does return as is promised in the Lord's Prayer many pay lip service to, there will no longer be any room for scoffers, their chance at repentance of their own ways gone, many's delusions that they can have it both ways, no more.
God made it clear:
Luke 16: 15 And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.
James 1:27 Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
Romans 12:2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
James 4:4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
Follow the counter-culture of the Kingdom as taught by Jesus, and reject the institutions and doctrines of man. As Jesus told Peter and the other Apostles, truth comes only from the Father and not the mouths and minds of mankind.
© ...timothyu
