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Will God go against our free will?

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If it does not align with His Word...... :nono :nono :nono

But if you persist in your free will knowing that it goes against His Word, then you have to face the consequence. Yes God will allow that.

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God will not jump into you head and control your actions against your will , but if you go out with the intent to be bad one day you might just hit all the red lights and get a few flat tires.

God puts things on our heart and we follow or do not, its our choice, here is a good example. I was running late one day for getting off work for my lunch break. I got off the phone with the customer, I clocked out, and got into my car to drive to a fast food place. a ways up the road was a wreck.

Could that have been me in that wreck? MAYBE. I like to think that previous phone call lasted exactly as long as God intended it to so I the thing that got hit was someones Camper/Trailer pull along thingy and not MY car, or THEIR truck.

Did God jump in my head and control me not letting me drive? no he put things on someones mind to call when they did while i was at work. The person might not even be a christian , God uses whom he chooses. So for whatever reason, i was held up that day and spared from a possible bad accident on the high way.

Just think of how often this happens and we over look it! God is always watching out for us when he pray for safety.
 
ChevyRodeo said:
God will not jump into you head and control your actions against your will , but if you go out with the intent to be bad one day you might just hit all the red lights and get a few flat tires.
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Good point.
Precisely the same sort of thing that God did with Jonah.
Jonah didnt want to go to Ninevah, but God wanted him to go anyway, so Jonah gets on a ship trying to escape, so God causes a storm to make him do what He wanted Jonah to do.

I had an instance back in the late 80s when I was visiting a woman with a group in a nursing home.
The Lord hit me really hard to tell this bed ridden woman whom Id just met one little sentence. I felt really uncomfortable because I just met her and didnt feel right being the one to say such a thing to her....even if it was to comfort her.
So the group is leaving and I started walking towards the door but about half way across the room my legs simply stopped moving. I backed up and tried again hoping at that point that it was just some weirdness, but again my legs simply stopped moving in the direction.
So finally I turned around and looked at the woman...everyone else had left the room...and I told her that I guess God wasnt going to let me leave the room until I told her what I guess I was supposed to.
So I said it, wasnt much in my mind to say, but apparently SHE needed to hear it because her face lit up and she threw out her arms to give me a hug.

God can make us do right when we need to do it and dont want to sometimes.
 
Dave Slayer said:
Will God go against our free will?
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Dave,

I am not aware of your personal beliefs and thereby why you asked the question in the OP.

The following two scriptures set forth the dual action that occurs under the Spirit of grace.

Phil 2:12-13
work out your salvation with fear and trembling; 13 for it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure. NASU

Gal 5:16-17
16 But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh. 17 For the flesh sets its desire against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these are in opposition to one another, so that you may not do the things that you please. NASU

Samson's statement to his father concerning the first young woman he desired to marry, "She pleases me well...", tells the answer to your question.

Joe
 
Dave Slayer said:
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God uses whom he chooses to use, but he will never take away our choice. Look at the story of Joana. If God wants something done bad enough it WILL BE DONE.
 
If you go to the video store and your dad says "You pick a DVD son!" and you say 'Wow cool! I think I'll pick V For Vendetta!" then your dad says "Well sure, you can pick V For Vendetta, but I'll have to torture you for all eternity unless you pick Twilight"

NOOOO NOT TWILIGHT! I think I'd take the eternal torture :P

Anyway, it's not free will in the conventional way you'd think of it, he basically puts the punishment for not doing exactly what he wants at an infinite level then says "CHOOSE!", as if any person in their right mind actually has a choice lol.

Still, yes, from a Christian standpoint you technically do have free will.
 
I think he lets us do what we decide to do, and we experience the consequences of what we do. Those consequences can be very painful and put great pressure on us to repent of our sin.
 
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