Free will is a great responsibility. With it must come a free will choice to limit or place boundaries on the free will. Even God, who clearly has free will, placed boundaries and Limitations on His Own free will. He is a Just, and Merciful God. No one makes Him be Just and Merciful, He places these Limitation of His Own free will because HE knows free will that is unchecked will destroy any kingdom, even His Own.
Freewill is technically a Godless position.
Are you claiming the Will of God does not work within you? How are you then free, O servant of Him?
You're not. NOR does God "need" your freewill decisions in order to reward you, as if He is beholden to pony up with whatever you think you are due for your decisions or actions. That's simply not a depiction of any so called god, yet alone The God of all creation.
Fact is, nothing transpires apart from the Will of God:
Psalm 145:14
The Lord
upholdeth all that fall,
and raiseth up all those that be bowed down.
Hebrews 1:3
Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and
upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had
by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high:
By Himself, PURGED our sins. Himself. No one else will get a single spittle of credit for purging their own sins by their own so called freewill.
There is more to say about this freewill fallacy. But this alone should make anyone think things through, OR harden them even further to "uphold themselves." You see God also grants us our DELUSIONS and puts our FEARS upon us all:
Isaiah 66:4
I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they did not hear: but they did evil before mine eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not.
There is an interesting phenomena that transpires when we engage/read His Words. IF we are a freewiller, we'll see freewill things. When we are determinist, we see determinist things. The more interesting parts are that both positions hold some truths, BUT none of these postures are apart from the over riding WILL OF THE LORD.
Imagine what a Divine Juggling Act looks like. IF freewill gave us that much power, I actually wouldn;t want it. It's far too complicated for me.
In the final analysis, God is all there is. He will BE ALL in ALL. 1 Cor. 15:28
And why not? Who can complain when Total Eternal Perfection is in charge? Why have it any other way? It's pointless.
So, no. God is not impressed with the moral choices of anyone. Fact also is any "moral choices" are still made with evil present within us all anyway. It's simply a no win game that we play to justify the entirety of ourselves before our Maker when such justifications really don't even exist and aren't in the cards.
We're both good and evil because GOD Himself made us that way. No sense lying about it or deceiving ourselves about it. Even less, thinking some other people are better than others because they made "good choices." It's just baloney all the way though.
We don't know enough to place limitation on our own free will, we must learn and be shown to freely accept limitations. This undeniable truth
Your "undeniable truth" doesn't exist. There is simply zero people that have the same freewill as God. Therefore every and any other will is categorically LESS THAN that free.
So how free is LESS THAN FREE?
It's not.
Nor are such "wills" free of God's Will anyway.
There are so many imaginations and fantasies in this category of theology it's hard to keep track of them all.
Here is a realistic look: There is not a person who will ever stand before us without evil present within them and the will of the tempter in operations within them also.
There was no such person as Eve, alone. There was no such person as Adam, alone.
Both of them were infected with the entrance of Satan into their hearts to STEAL from them the moment after God blessed them, according to Jesus anyway. Mark 4:15
From that point on, it's always been the person and the tempter, walking in the same pair of shoes, other than God Himself in the flesh.
There is a very clear line drawn between The Creator and the creation. Let's not mistake ourselves for God. He gave us part of His own self, but none of us can handle the WHOLE ENCHILADA nor are we meant to. That will always be reserved for Him Alone.
Many, who profess to know God, claim that "Evil" defiled Eve "From without", not from within, because they say God created her perfect, with no evil. But these men imply in their philosophy that the "ability" to chose Evil, is evil itself. That isn't true. There is something truly Holy about a person denying the lusts of their free will desires, (AKA Lusts of the flesh) and choose instead to freely adopt the limitations the Father Gave them, even when they might not understand them. Eve was created a perfect being with free will, like her creator. She was created with the ability to choose to obey and to choose to disobey. A talking snake, a false teacher, these are just tests to see, as Paul teaches, "Who we yield ourselves to obey".
We never do only evil or only good. That is simply another freewill fairy tale.
Whatever good we do, we do so with the presence of evil, an evil conscience, still within us all. And the tempter also retains his sway over us, in the flesh regardless.
So God is never just engaging just a person. He engages both the child of God AND the tempter or his own, as Jesus showed us on nearly every page of the Gospels.
Nobody slips by this setup based on their so called "good choices."
A good tree produces good fruit, and a bad tree produces either no or bad fruit.
And everyone produces BOTH, if they are honest.
Dishonest religious people have a hard time owning up to this fact or they have conjured up various formulas to "get around" the hard line facts of their bad or evil fruit.
Another "fact" of scripture is that we all have evil thoughts that defile us, Mark 7:21-23
But of course no one wants to sit in a pew and really HEAR about the fact that they are defiled, do they?
No, they'll all run out the door holding their hands over their ears, and maybe even gnash a tooth or 2
