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crimsonleaf
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Thank you. I've learned from the best on this board.
I see you used your free will to choose what you believe to be the best view of God. And his is okay with me. I also noticed YOU searched for God and answers, which is okay with me also.
Yes I did - right after He saved me. The searching for God I seek to do is in order to know Him better. Prior to my conversion I did no seeking and had no desire to understand.
But somewhere down the line, you started believing you have no free will and can't do anything from yourself. Why would you suddenly believe this, when your own life proves this is wrong?
I recently dared to suggest you were one of the people on here who least understood Calvinism. I will restate that again.
I have never stated that I don't have free will, but that my will is free to act within my nature. That is still true, although my nature has been changed so that it can now include God. Nowhere have I said I can't do anything from myself. All I do is, and has been, from myself. My very love of God is a free choice, enabled by the Holy Spirit. So, far from not believing in free will, I believe that unregenerate man's will is free within his nature, and that regenerate man's is truly and supremely free.
But by definition, free will never prompts a man to do what he doesn't want to, does it?
I am fine with what you are telling me. I believe every man must search, find, and believe what he gets from the Bible freely. Yes, the Spirit will guide you, but ultimately, you make the final decision.
Once the Spirit is guiding you the decision is inevitable, otherwise it was never the Spirit.
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