Clare73
Blood-bought
- Jun 12, 2012
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Free will is the ability/power to choose what one prefers without external force or constraint.Free Will in Choosing God in the Bible:
#1. Joshua 24:15 KJV -
"Choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve"
#2. Matthew 11:28 KJV -
"Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest."
#3. John 7:17 KJV -
"If anyone wills to do His will, he shall know concerning the doctrine, whether it is from God."
#4. John 7:37 KJV -
"If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink."
#5. Acts 2:38 KJV -
"Repent, and let everyone of you be baptized"
#6. Acts 3:19 KJV -
"Repent therefore and be converted"
#7. Acts 16:31 KJV -
"Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved"
#8. Acts 17:30 KJV -
"but now commands all men everywhere to repent"
#9. Revelation 22:17 KJV -
"Whoever wills, let him take the water of life freely."
#10. Genesis 4:7 KJV -
"If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him."
#11. Revelation 22:17 KJ2
"And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that hears say, Come. And let him that is thirsty come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely."
#12. Luke 13:34 NLT -
"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones God's messengers! How often I have wanted to gather your children together as a hen protects her chicks beneath her wings, but you wouldn't let me.
Free will is not the issue in the Bible, the issue is the disposition, what one prefers, which controls the will.
God operates within the dispositions of men, giving them to prefer his will, and they freely and willingly choose what they prefer without external force or constraint.
God does not violate the free will of men to bring them to himself, he uses it.
"For, it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose." (Philippians 2:13),
"to be holy and blameless in his sight, to be adopted as his sons" (Ephesians 1:4-5),
"predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son" that he may have many brothers (Romans 8:29), etc.
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