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Rapadura
Mon Apr 25, 2005 11:41 am

Re: is their really such a thing as freewill?
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I just want to be biblical, I don't want to live by man's false ideas of God.

It's good to be biblical. For scholars it's not very difficult to be so. But if a simple soul, being blessed by the Lords mercy, has a very intelligent remark but due to his being simple he cannot support it by scriptural texts and his remarks are not in contradiction to the revealed scriptures than why should we not accept it? Understanding God and conversing about Him in a bona fide way is not a matter of scholarship but a matter of being blessed by the Lord due to serving Him with devotion.

To me I have no assurance or hope in anything if God is not absolutley sovereign over everything, including my "free will"

I agree. But still, God will not interfere with our minute independence. He wants us to love Him out of free will, not out of force, because than it cannot be called love anymore.