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nightmanII
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Mon Jan 01, 2007 8:26 pm |
 
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What do you think a persons life experiences is chalked up to free will or predestination? |
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Carmen
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Mon Jan 01, 2007 8:28 pm |
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Before I answer your question would you please define for me 'freewill" as you understand it?
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Carmen
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Mon Jan 01, 2007 8:38 pm |
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Your terminology is a bit confusing. You define free will as the ability to choose. However the correct definition of free will is the ability to make choices without:1) Inclination: which is an inward disposition at any given moment when presented with a choice.
2) Coercion: which is an external force that comes to bear when presented with a choice. In accordance with the correct definition, free will is non exisent. The scriptures teach that man is not in posession of free will because when presented with a choice he is subject to both of these forces.
Inclination - man has radically fallen and not able to redemptively choose that which will please God unless he is acted upon externally through the medium of grace. Thus he is subject to both inclination and coercion. Jonathan Edwards argued this point successfully from both the biblical and philosophical standpoints in his work. "On the Freedom of the Will" (Note: we have this work in our online Library - http://graciouscall.org/books-edwards-will-freedom.shtml)
Predestination refers to the biblical teaching that unless God works in an supernatural, external and internal way in the life of an individual, he will never choose Christ and therefore redemption. This God has chosen to do in the lives of some but not all. This is called "Election."
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