Brokenhill
Praise God, i'm satisifed.
The term "free will" doesn't have to appear in scripture specifically...what we call "free will" is clearly displayed in scripture in so many places. As I quoted Joshua who said "choose you this day whom you will serve..." Or if we look at Adam and Eve, God clearly gave them a choice to heed His voice or listen to the serpent's..
If it is understood, God Created everything, what would make you think He didn't Create evil as well.
God placed in the Garden The Tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil, if God did not create evil then where did it come from, God had the knowledge of Good and Evil.
I keep saying it but nobody listens.
God gave DOMINION to mankind through Adam, within that Dominion rests the ability to make choices, Free Will is not an entity unto itself, that is the reason your cannot find it mentioned even once in the Bible, it is part and parcel of Dominion.
Mankind has Dominion, and therein lies the ability to make choices, mankind has this ability in order for him to be able to chart the course of his life, it does not apply to anything else.
Mankind does not possess the ability to chose to do Good or Evil (Sin) as we think of Free Will Choices, he is a slave to sin he is sold under sin, he has a sin Nature and will always sin until he is Freed From Sin, he does not have the ability to resist sin it's what we do as human beings.
If mankind has this Free Will, why then does it take so many people years before they finally do come to the knowledge of God?
It isn't by their Free Will, it is because God Draws them by His Spirit, and then by the Grace of God he receives his Salvation, it isn't a choice which God offers to man, it is a Gift of God to man.
Before a person is Saved, and becomes a Believer, he is a Slave unto Sin, after he is Saved, being born unto God, he is a Slave unto God and Jesus.
Why does it take some so long to come to the knowledge of God? Easy.
1. There aren't enough people preaching the Gospel relative to the vast amount of people on teh planet.
2. Romans 1:18-23 "...men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness..." They don't want to even think about life after death because they're too busy filling their bodies up with the lusts of the eyes/flesh/pride of life.
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