FreeGrace2
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Free will and water are quite different things. One is an object, the other is an opportunity. Basically a potential. You can feel water, but you can't feel an opportunity.Unable to accept. Water is wet, never dry, by the definition of things. A will is free or not free, ie limited, not both.
Let's simplify it a bit. A will that is free is able to make choices. iow, if an option isn't available to the will, there's no choice to be made.A free will must be FREE from all coercions* or constraints** when choosing any applicable options to the choice.
And Tituse 2:11 clearly indicates a choice is available to "all people".
Neither #1 or #2 are relevant, since both contain an "option that cannot be resisted". If it can't be resisted, then it isn't a choice.*A coercion is a compulsion or force to choose a particular option that cannot be resisted. An example would be if GOD created us with no free will but with an innate desire to only do HIS will that restricts our ability to choose evil.
**A constraint is any compulsion or force that forces a limit against choosing a particular option which cannot be resisted. An example would be if GOD created us under a compulsion to sin that permeates our decisions which restricts our ability to choose righteousness.
An influence is anything intending to produce a decision to choose one option over the others which can be considered then either accepted or rejected according to which we think or hope will give us the best life.
If our free will is an absolute "necessity", then what we FEEL LIKE is also irrelevant.Claiming a limited (constrained) free will is just another way of saying we have no free will but since our free will is an absolute necessity we FEEL like we must have a free will because we can still make choices
If there are constraints on choices, which seems to mean choices can't be made, then there isn't free will.albeit choices driven by our sinful nature, not a nature free of all constraints.
Of course it does. If there is no ability to choose, there is no free will.The ability to choose does not connote a free will as some suggest.
How does this relate to free will? Of course Satan has free will. He rebelled. That was a free choice.Satan makes choices thare all obviously driven by evil...we are just not so aware of that in ourselves.
When God presented Job to him, and he accused God of bribery, did God constrain what he could do to Job? In both cases, God gave only 1 constraint. In the first one, satan couldn't touch him physically. In the second one, satan couldn't kill him.
He certainly was free to choose how to make Job miserable in both circumstances.
He had many opportunities to choose from. That's free will.
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