Sentences with phrase «god about our free will»

There may be room for discussion about just how Descartes understood free «will, but it is out of the question to suppose, as Griffin does, that Descartes might have allowed that we are deceived by God about our free will.

«2 Hasker is right to say that Descartes would not have (explicitly) «allowed that we are deceived by God about our free will.»

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think about this: if God were to remove all evil from this world, he would have to remove free will.

Religious leaders free themselves from the obligation of talking about evil, by pretending that it's only a matter of free will and people can choose what they want and the consequences are only personal («between you and God»).

Everyone talks about Jesus (who is God, of course), but what about the beautiful messages about faith and predestination and free will?

I should have expounded, about asking what harm there is, the only harm is from man and his free will, as God hasn't judged yet, only tested.

and don't talk about free will because god takes that a way big time when he sends you to hell.

I know there are several different ideas about free will, prayer, God's plans, and the like.

(8) But since God can not bring it about that P go right with respect to A if P is significantly free with respect to A, if God knows that P will go wrong with respect to A if actualized and made free with respect to A, then God can not actualize a world in which P is made free with respect to A and performs the right action although this latter state of affairs is itself consistent (possible).

Once you free yourself of the mental slavery of the god concept, you too will hear statements about «the bible being vetted and proven true» and either laugh or shake your head in sadness and disbelief for your fellow man.

«Then at least,» I wrote at the time, «left to ourselves, we will be able, under the guidance of a new Holy Father (who will, I hope and pray, see it as his aim to complete the work of the pontificate which has just come to such an unexpected end), and with God's help, return in the light of a new Eastertide to the business of building up the Church once more, free of the attentions of the roving media protagonists who so rarely care a jot about what, for a week or so, is currently attracting their fitful attention.»

The injustice of the situation was troublesome enough, but when my friends insisted that Zarmina went to hell because she was a Muslim, I began wrestling with some serious questions about heaven, hell, predestination, free will, God's goodness, and religious pluralism.

This function of the will, though it is the responsibility of a person, is not meritorious in any way, for faith is not a work (Rom 4:5), but is simply being persuaded or convinced about what is true, which, in the case of eternal life, is being persuaded that eternal life is the free gift of God to all who believe in Jesus for it.

Don't know where your post is going with these incredibly stupid claims but I was talking about free will and the inconsistency that poses for an omniscient God.

When Christ promised that «you will know the truth and the truth shall set you free,» he was referring in part to the painful liberation — and attendant opportunity — that comes from grasping the truth about ourselves and then attempting, with the help of the God who loves us, to do something about it.

But even when he is speaking in the tones of Jeremiah, he will suddenly break in with the melody of Isaiah, offering hope that in repentance we can still go forward toward God in genuine hope; and he will do so in passages (here from «Transgressions and Infirmities») that powerfully recall the cadences of St. Paul: «On the whole, then, this may be considered a Christian's state: ever about to fall, yet by God's mercy never falling; ever dying, yet always alive; full of infirmities, yet free from transgressions; and, as time goes on, more and more free from infirmities also, as tending to that perfect righteousness which is the fulfilling of the Law.»

If one lets the no - inherent - free - will interpretation of the less than 0.5 % of the Scriptures set the precedence on what the word of God says about man's free will, then a person is forced to do some absurd reasoning / interpretation of the majority of scriptures that imply that man has the inherent ability to accept / believe or reject God's call / drawing, commands, instructions, promises and gifts.

@ellen, free will is a contradiction if there is an omniscient god... How do you explain the fact that your god knows about everything you will do and the fact that you think you have the ability to do otherwise?

For he can help us to get some spiritual distance on our cultural situation; he can increase our awareness of those aspects of our modern consciousness which cut the heart out of our Christian experience, and so help to free us from them; he can help engender in us a sense of humor about ourselves which comes from taking a less contemporary and more eternal perspective — a perspective in which our love of God, our gratefulness to Christ and our concern for our neighbor will have a chance to grow.

The plan has always been to bring about a group of people that do not reject God rather love God with their own free will.

How about how do you align an omnipotent god with free will (without redefining free will).

So, your vision of God is the ultimate helicopter parent???!!! What about that free will thing?

This is what I love about God that he gives everyone the free will to either choose Him or to reject him.

I get sick of fundies talking about their free will and their god's attributes.

And insofar as God has given free will to agents, his knowledge of what their future activity can only be expressed in propositions about what «might and might not» come to pass.

If you were my pastor I would be thanking God daily — I can not imagine how many young people under you will grow up and have normal, meaningful lives that don't preclude they have an «us and them» idea about the world — now that's freeing.

And though they eventually made up, their disagreement has lived on in American evangelicals» waxing and waning debates about God's sovereignty and the doctrines of election and free will.

Otherwise, the churches of the Christian tradition will have nothing to say to religious seekers in a culture where people are free to believe anything they wish about God... and do.

I am in basic agreement about the origin of violence being inherent within creation and God's gift of free will.

Your problem is you simply think you have a better vision as to how one can allow free will and still bring about unity with a holy God.

In fact, God doesn't care about our specific choices — God has given us free choice to do as we will and is committed to that freedom — although God cares passionately about the final outcome of our lives.

I pretty much agreed with most of what you have said and i think that the sinners prayer has been misused as a get out of Jail free card.A couple of things that people miss is that God is in charge.As soon as you offer yourself to God and accept Jesus Chris the holy spirit has liberty to work on you.Because he loves us he will discipline us so that we do repent of our sins.The downside of living a walk like that you are a hypocrite until you admit your sinfulness the holy spirit can not help us because of our pride.The second part was you talking about disciplining the flesh personally you cant discipline that which is corrupt our hearts are deceitfully wicked we need new hearts no amount of effort on our part will transform our hearts that is the work of the holy spirit he changes our hearts so that we no longer desire to sin we would rather serve the Lord with all our hearts instead.brentnz

They talk about «the inscrutable will of God» and say that «His ways are not our ways» and that «all will be made clear once we are free of this mortal flesh.»

Chris, there is nothing about God's omniscience that precludes free will, nothing at all.

So if the Jewish «god» already made the mistake (which «he» knew beforehand was a mistake since «he» was all - knowing) of making man with free will (as the story goes)... then this «god» turns around and gets all remorseful about making man...

My god thingy sounds about the same as the christian god thingy, but you don't have to shell out any money, free will and free religion and a heaven to boot, the FSM Trinity.

Here is not about free wills, here is about why God allowed this innocent fine people to die miserably.

What gave God a mind, free will, knowledge, certainty about right and wrong?

As long as they believe only their version of god is true, and only their version of god gave us free will... can you really not see what kind of convenient defense mechanism that affords them in an actual debate about their beliefs?

In fact there were also similar debates about the place of God, free will, fate, and angels in the Judaism of Paul's time.

Verse 31:6 talks about those who preaches to take human away from worshipping One True God (pure monothiestic) and those who purchases their stories to be misguided are the same... the one who purchases these stories are not being forced but they are purchasing by their free wills that human will be judged for this «free will» that how they have used this «free will» when it comes to The Creator OR Creators...

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The film opens with Rav Krushka, the beloved leader of an Orthodox Jewish congregation in London, delivering a sermon about the tricky place human beings occupy in the world, torn between the forces of spiritual good and darkness, but provided by HaShem (God) with free will — i.e., «the power to disobey.»

The Strange Journey will take you through a fundamentally fascinating story about human nature, free will, gods, and an increasingly relevant conversation about stewardship of the planet, if you're able to trek through the game's dated user interface and pages upon pages of text.

But he knows how to earn your attention, to make you care about characters, to make you interested in what happens before he starts holding forth on things like gods and destiny and free will.

If you could get in heaven because of your good deeds, why would JESUS had to have gone to the cross, you will not go to hell because you sinned, the bible says we all have sinned, you will go for rejecting GODS free gift, his son, JESUS, SEE, HE TOOK YOUR PLACE IF YOU EXCEPT HIS OFFER BUT IF NOT YOU PAY FOR ALL YOUR SINS, KIND OF LIKE COURT, BETTER TO TAKE AN ATTORNEY THAN REPRESENT YOURSELF, sorry for caps, GOD loved you so much he sent his son to die for you as payment for sin, you will answer to GOD for everything you do, JESUS lived a perfect life which was accepted by GOD for payment of sins, thats up to you if you except it, is bible vs man made religions, thats alot of commeon since, there are man made laws you go by or suffer for, plus, there are so many religions you can make one up to best suit you, it do nt work that way, plus, excepting JESUS is the best way to heaven, why would you think you caould live perfect your whole life, you cant, the devil will use religion to lead as many people away from CHRIST as he can, even in the garden, eve was decieved.if the bible is not true than no man has anyright to even say whats right or wrong, things some people do they think is fine and so on, is stealing your car wrong, why, who said, and why are they right, think about it, salvation is simple, man makes it hard, other religions say you have to earn it, fine, if they live that good, they should except JESUS, why not except him, my way is through JESUS, if thats wrong, what have i lost, other ways are thru something or anything else, what if they are wrong, high price to pay for opinion, what if your son took someoneles punishment, and it cost him his life, how would you feel, think about GODS feelings, you cant take a few verses from man religion and get anywhere, read the bible, if you believe theres a GOD in heaven, please do nt reject his son, all very good questions, thanks, i do nt want to be a problem, i just want you to be in heaven someday, i cant be good enough to there there on my own, so i looked to the perfect one, JESUS, you do nt worked to get saved, you work because you are savd.you get get back out in sin and backslide, but, if your really saved, the LORD lives inside you, it will bother you to do certain things, but you can get numb to it, plus, the bible says, you are not your own, you were bought with a price, JESUS BLOOD, free to you but cost him his life, GOD will chastise for repeated sin, you are his child, just like with your children, spend some time alone with GOD, ask him to show you, would love to talk to you guys over phone, i cant type, you can tell, theres so much more i can say please call me [PHONE NUMBER REMOVED] or email is [EMAILREMOVED]