If Daddy can turn the hearts of men, or let people's opinion of you be changed (find favour, can we still say that God respects free will?
e.g. made the Egyptians hate Israel
Psalms 105:24-25
The LORD made his people very fruitful;
he made them too numerous for their foes,
whose hearts he (foes) turned to hate his people,
to conspire against his servants.
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What is free Will?
ReplyDeleteDid the Egyptians have free will over their emotions? No
Complete free will is from God does not have him influencing our decisions.
Free will for one is not unlimited power to make decisions. Free will is given with certain boundaries. Adam is made to rule over Earth but he is not given choices in everything. Now If we have complete free will, what will we be? God..
Its necessary to understand that every decision is affected by others and by God.
Where and who we are born to, natural disasters, blessings, curses, the fall of the earth, Jesus dying on the cross for us. These are not free will given to us. All these are other people's decision that affects us.
Futhermore Our desires and callings that Daddy plants in our hearts, favour and prayers made by another person on us. All these are not in our parameter of free will.
What is respect?
I would define respect as not forcing someone to do something which he has a free will in. That means if Daddy allows compete choice over a decision, he doesn’t force us.
Now under my definition, this question is not really a question. Because if God disrespects and forces us, then it no longer becomes free will. And “can we still say that God respects free will?” In itself is not a question.
Yes I must say we don’t have free will in many situations…
And guess what? I like that Idea
Complete free will is insane, it means we can go off course and fall off the cliff.
It means we will spend eternity in hell. Humans will always want to earn their way, and we know we can’t win.
God’s heart for us is so big, with the greatest gift hanging on the cross and holy spirit in us.
Won’t we want someone we trust and who loves us so much to guild our way?
I think that is what I want, for Daddy to change my heart and guild me by the hand like a child through every uncertain path in my life. So although we sheeps have been given the opportunity to roam about the pastures, our freedom is bounded by fences. Fences not to limit our food but fences to keep us in The Zone and for hungry wolves not to come. Certainly thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
If we know Daddy’s heart for us, I will want to trust him to CORRECT my thoughts and CHANGE my emotions. In a sense I don’t want free will hehe
Here’s a thought for you. Daddy didn’t want to create robots, so he let us choose our ways even though he knows we will go down the road of destruction. And now he is so happy that we are leaning and trusting on him, being led by the spirit.
God loves us too much for us to go our own way. He took away our FREE WILL which is utter destruction in hell and without our consent took away all our sins and problems. Oh I don’t regret leaning on Daddy and having no free will knowing how much He loves us.