freewill

"For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified."...

Thoughts on God vs the Kingdom of God. What does it mean for "God" to do something? A man falls in a lake and is on the brink of drowning. “God save me!,” he cries out. Another man with a boat rushes to the rescue. “Thank God,” the rescued man exclaims, shivering safely in the boat and...

Timestamp Outline for Your convenience! 1.5x Speed recommended. ⚙️ 00:00:00 Intro 0:03:22 Properly defining "freewill" 0:06:36 Foundational verses 00:11:40 Addressing Deiesm heresy 00:15:38 Determinism established 00:20:11 …Visual example 00:25:06 Practical applications 00:30:08 Foundation...

Many times, in many threads concerning, in particular, the question of whether God deciding all things makes him the one to blame for sin, and turns erstwhile free-willing agents into robots programmed to 'choose' what they do, and makes their choices mere illusion. In these threads, I have...

I have received this notification when I tried to answer something @wendykvw said to someone else, but can't find why: Christian Forums - Error You do not have permission to view this page or perform this action. So I'm here opening another thread: @wendykvw said, "We have a common goal. To...

We have freewill God lets us decide to do good or bad and our purpose in life is when we make that decision. it's easy to not know that purpose because we are different. But freewill God gives it but he also gives us the law and the law is not wrong and niether is freewill just soceity itself is...

" Clark Pinnock said, “The future is really open and not available to exhaustive foreknowledge even on the part of God. It is plain that the biblical doctrine of creaturely freedom requires us to reconsider the conventional view of the omniscience of God”[" Open Theism: Is God’s Limited...

This is an article that is a collection of message board conversations and email exchanges between an Orthodox priest father John (FJ) and a number of Calvinist Protestants (CP) going back to the late 1990s. I find it enlightening on the issue, but I believe I would call it a "straw dog". A...

Up until about a month ago I had always struggled with this age old debate but now would like to tell you what I have discovered in my studies to resolve it. As predestination goes I think we would all agree that being born into this world is a death sentence and I would say the Bible in ecc...