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Was Adam imparted free will from the beginning of Creation?

Hopeful 2 said:
If you want God's will to be done, shouldn't you be doing God's will ?
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This may come across as if God is not causing His will to be carried out if we don't consciously decide (choose according to our will) to do it. Adam chose to listen to Eve. He chose to eat of the tree of G&E. Adam didn't choose to be created. He didn't design the tree of G&E then create it. He did not arrange for Satan to be introduced to the garden. It seems some things Adam decided and other things were beyond his control to decide on. But I would say that in all these things and beyond, God's will is being carried out according to His script.
 
Hopeful 2 said:
Then I would be like the people Paul told the Corinthians to cast out.
NO way-no Jose.
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Well, you do not want to be like this;
7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

8 Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.

9 But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as their's also was.
 
Iconoclast said:
Only in your mind friend. You can imagine anything you want too. That is why many people enjoy fantasy instead of reality.
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Did Peter imagine this?

2 Peter 1
4Through these He has given us His precious and magnificent promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, now that you have escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.
 
one2question said:
This may come across as if God is not causing His will to be carried out if we don't consciously decide (choose according to our will) to do it.
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Of course.
If we don't do as He commands, His will is not being done !
one2question said:
Adam chose to listen to Eve. He chose to eat of the tree of G&E. Adam didn't choose to be created.
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Does that have some bearing on his free will...or ours ?
one2question said:
He didn't design the tree of G&E then create it. He did not arrange for Satan to be introduced to the garden. It seems some things Adam decided and other things were beyond his control to decide on.
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Certainly.
Fortunately, we have the ability to carry out our will, especially if it marches God's will.
one2question said:
But I would say that in all these things and beyond, God's will is being carried out according to His script.
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His script includes some people choosing to obey Him, even unto death.
 
Hopeful 2 said:
Of course.
If we don't do as He commands, His will is not being done !

Does that have some bearing on his free will...or ours ?

Certainly.
Fortunately, we have the ability to carry out our will, especially if it marches God's will.

His script includes some people choosing to obey Him, even unto death.
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When pharoah disobeyed Gods command to let His People go, was Gods will being done ? Was it Gods will for him to disobey ?
 
brightfame52 said:
When pharoah disobeyed Gods command to let His People go, was Gods will being done ? Was it Gods will for him to disobey ?
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God knew pharaoh would disobey, so God's will had nothing to do with it.
God simply used what was naturally occurring for His own purpose.
 
Iconoclast said:
Well, you do not want to be like this;
7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

8 Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.

9 But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as their's also was.
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Wouldn't that truth be the truth Jesus said could make you free from service to sin ? (John 8:32-34)
 
Iconoclast said:
Jesus said to cut off hands, pluck out your eye, have you done that?
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Yes, I have obeyed Jesus Christ's OT "picture" of the NT's separation from the wickedness of my past.
My old body was destroyed, (Rom 6:6) at it's "immersion" into Christ and into His death and burial. (Rom 6:3-7)
"And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts." (Gal 5:24)
"Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new." (2 Cor 5:17)
Those parts of me that acted out my old mind's lusts are gone.
 
Iconoclast said:
Jesus said to cut off hands, pluck out your eye, have you done that?
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He wasn't being literal. If one wanted to actually disable their body from sinning they might have to actually destroy themselves because the source of the sin isn't just in the deed itself, but in the heart.

28But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Now should we actually rip our heart out of our chest, or more figuratively speaking, lobotomize ourselves from having bad thoughts? Of course not. That is not the point he was making.
 
Runningman said:
Did Peter imagine this?

2 Peter 1
4Through these He has given us His precious and magnificent promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, now that you have escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.
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Thats about regeneration and the New Birth.
 
Hopeful 2 said:
Of course.
If we don't do as He commands, His will is not being done !

Does that have some bearing on his free will...or ours ?

Certainly.
Fortunately, we have the ability to carry out our will, especially if it marches God's will.

His script includes some people choosing to obey Him, even unto death.
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Yes, Adam appears to be created with the ability to choose certain things within a certain God ordained scope but not beyond. Adam had the choice to keep eating unto eternal life. And yes he had the choice to eat (of another tree) unto death. The ability to choose was even given to Satan, but not absolute freedom to do what he wanted. His Creator he was having a conversation with said he can get involved with Job but set boundaries. Satan willed to destroy Job but couldn't as God's will was to preserve Job's life. Both Satan and God did not have absolute free will just as both were not sovereign. It appears that only One has complete freedom to choose to do everything they desire and the unlimited ability to carry it out.
 
Hopeful 2 said:
Yes, I have obeyed Jesus Christ's OT "picture" of the NT's separation from the wickedness of my past.
My old body was destroyed, (Rom 6:6) at it's "immersion" into Christ and into His death and burial. (Rom 6:3-7)
"And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts." (Gal 5:24)
"Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new." (2 Cor 5:17)
Those parts of me that acted out my old mind's lusts are gone.
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No...you are deceived/ You fail God everyday. You are not perfect before God everyday.
 
Runningman said:
He wasn't being literal. If one wanted to actually disable their body from sinning they might have to actually destroy themselves because the source of the sin isn't just in the deed itself, but in the heart.
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correct. That is the point.
Runningman said:
28But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
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I suggest everyone here has done that.
Runningman said:
Now should we actually rip our heart out of our chest, or more figuratively speaking, lobotomize ourselves from having bad thoughts? Of course not. That is not the point he was making.
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You understand it correctly.
 
one2question said:
Yes, Adam appears to be created with the ability to choose certain things within a certain God ordained scope but not beyond. Adam had the choice to keep eating unto eternal life. And yes he had the choice to eat (of another tree) unto death. The ability to choose was even given to Satan, but not absolute freedom to do what he wanted. His Creator he was having a conversation with said he can get involved with Job but set boundaries. Satan willed to destroy Job but couldn't as God's will was to preserve Job's life. Both Satan and God did not have absolute free will just as both were not sovereign. It appears that only One has complete freedom to choose to do everything they desire and the unlimited ability to carry it out.
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Agreed.
 
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