stovebolts
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Freewill is always an interesting topic! Personally, through the years I've summed up freewill like this.
First, what is freewill? I see it as the ability to autonomously make a choice from our own will. Without freewill, one would only have the illusion they had a say in any matter when in reality, they didn't. In short, without freewill one is reduced to being a puppet with the inability to make any choice, weather it being obeying Gods commands or when to stop pouring the milk into your cereal bowl.
However, I do see a paradox with freewill because while we can make choices and decisions, we can only do so with that which God created. As a result, our choices are limited and because they are limited, we really aren't free to do as we will.
God asks Paul, "How long will you continue to kick against the goads", which is to say, " How long will you continually make decisions that only cause you pain and suffering"?
So is see that God has set in place through His creation a means to guide us toward His will and abandon our will that we would live in harmony with Him.
First, what is freewill? I see it as the ability to autonomously make a choice from our own will. Without freewill, one would only have the illusion they had a say in any matter when in reality, they didn't. In short, without freewill one is reduced to being a puppet with the inability to make any choice, weather it being obeying Gods commands or when to stop pouring the milk into your cereal bowl.
However, I do see a paradox with freewill because while we can make choices and decisions, we can only do so with that which God created. As a result, our choices are limited and because they are limited, we really aren't free to do as we will.
God asks Paul, "How long will you continue to kick against the goads", which is to say, " How long will you continually make decisions that only cause you pain and suffering"?
So is see that God has set in place through His creation a means to guide us toward His will and abandon our will that we would live in harmony with Him.