Does God Honor Man's "Free Will"?

[jimmyjimmy]

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[alexandriaisburning]

If God truly honored man's free will, why didn't He just leave Adam and Eve to their choice of death and disobedience?

Because God loved them. While humans are free to make choices, so is God. God's will for creation will not be frustrated.

 

[bling]

If God truly honored man's free will, why didn't He just leave Adam and Eve to their choice of death and disobedience?

What do you mean by: “God truly honored man's free will”?

Man is not “free” to fly around the room if he wants, so is God limiting some of what man can do?

What “autonomous” free will choice does man really have to make, while other choices make little difference and really do not have to be by man’s free will?

Was Adam and Eve’s since both inevitable and necessary?

Is sin the problem or is unforgiven sin the problem?

 

[EmSw]

If God truly honored man's free will, why didn't He just leave Adam and Eve to their choice of death and disobedience?

He did.

 

[Hieronymus]

If God truly honored man's free will, why didn't He just leave Adam and Eve to their choice of death and disobedience?

Didn't He do just that?

 

[jimmyjimmy]

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[farout]

If God truly honored man's free will, why didn't He just leave Adam and Eve to their choice of death and disobedience?

You forgot, He did they choose to eat of the fruit, which ended in death.

 

[jimmyjimmy]

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[Hieronymus]

I'm I the only one with a Bible?

No, but we actually read it. (joking)

 

[willowsbible]

If God truly honored man's free will, why didn't He just leave Adam and Eve to their choice of death and disobedience?

Why did God plant the one tree that his all knowing spirit determined beforehand would condemn them?

 

[farout]

Why did God plant the one tree that his all knowing spirit determined beforehand would condemn them?

God did not make robots, he gave then freedom to obey or disobey.

 

[jimmyjimmy]

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[Hieronymus]

What about Genesis 3:15?

Good point.
God started a lengthy (in our perspective) trajectory for mankind to be redeemed.

 

[jimmyjimmy]

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[willowsbible]

God did not make robots, he gave then freedom to obey or disobey.

And yet that tree would imbue the first couple with the consciousness of good or evil and therein instill in them the awareness of the requisite understanding that precedes obedience or disobedience.

 

[willowsbible]

I don't know, but why don't you start a thread to address that?

Because you already did. That would therefore be rude of me.

 

[jimmyjimmy]

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[Hieronymus]

Yes. {insert OP question here}

Okay, but He still leaves us the choice to repent and (thus) believe in Him. (and / or the choice to believe in Him and repent.)
But He nearly did end it all, only the Noah clan was good enough to start over with.

I believe God's Will is to have humans around.
So He didn't give up, He even gave in (kind of): John 3:16

It's quite impossible to assess this, as God is beyond time, so chronology must mean something rather different to Him than it does to us.
This also touches the predestination question.

 

[jimmyjimmy]

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[Hieronymus]

Thanks, but that doesn't answer the OP.

John 3:16
God gives options to choose.