6336	Forums / Theology Forum / Re: Free Will?	on: May 23, 2008, 10:30:35 AM
Quote from: osiris041282 on May 23, 2008, 10:05:25 AM It is a slippery slope P-man, and one I've been sliding on for a while.  But this is most likely going to be an issue which we agree to disagree. By Free Will in the truest sense is exactly that.  It is what separates man from the angels and beasts... free will is ingrained in our souls, it is what makes us human... Perhaps I get hung up on the "double predestination" aspect, but like you said it is one or the other.  So if one believes that God ultimately has our lives planned out before us, then you are also saying God causes us to sin and causes us to reject Him, which seems incompatible to me... So free will is exactly that, God gives us reign over this world, we have the power to choose or reject Him, we make the decisions in our daily life, and ultimately must answer for those decisions.  Not saying this isn't possible, but based on my experience I don't think God would force someones hand, then blame them for that... MBG, to quote the addidas commercial "impossible is nothing"...obviously we are limited by physical and natural laws(or are we?) but Christ said: John 14:12 I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. and the oft quoted verse in Phillipians4 "I can do all things through Christ which strengthens me" So for the Christian at least, perhaps we do not have that line between possible and impossible....  How much resistance do you have that can keep you from dieing if you jump off a building with Jesus? What i am saying here is Do we measure responsibility by the greater the sin the more resistance is required and the greater reward is the measure?