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accountable vs responsible?
Rito1980:
If i shove someone out a window then im responsible for being bully. But that person is accountable for letting their guard down. I know that sounds cruel but god "loves you" so thats all that matters right? Hope that helps. :)
lilitalienboi16:
--- Quote from: Rito1980 on March 27, 2013, 07:36:35 PM ---If i shove someone out a window then im responsible for being bully. But that person is accountable for letting their guard down. I know that sounds cruel but god "loves you" so thats all that matters right? Hope that helps. :)
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Letting your "guard down," whatever that means, is not a sin. Pushing someone out the window on the other hand... THAT is very much a sin and murder most likely. In your case, you would be accountable for your actions of murder while God would be responsible for having brought you into existence knowing one day, that your spiritual weakness by His purpose would lead you to commit murder.
Hope that helps :)
Rito1980:
Alien you dont get it. If murderers or drug addicts sin its because God placed certain genetics and bad upbringings and enviroments to cause them to be that way.He even causes illness and accidents. He drives people to dispair till the finally comit suicide etc. We are just a tool.
God be with you.
--- Quote from: lilitalienboi16 on March 29, 2013, 12:05:29 AM ---
--- Quote from: Rito1980 on March 27, 2013, 07:36:35 PM ---If i shove someone out a window then im responsible for being bully. But that person is accountable for letting their guard down. I know that sounds cruel but god "loves you" so thats all that matters right? Hope that helps. :)
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Letting your "guard down," whatever that means, is not a sin. Pushing someone out the window on the other hand... THAT is very much a sin and murder most likely. In your case, you would be accountable for your actions of murder while God would be responsible for having brought you into existence knowing one day, that your spiritual weakness by His purpose would lead you to commit murder.
Hope that helps :)
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Dave in Tenn:
He makes the blind. He makes the blind to see. All this life is just a vapor. It's all good in the end.
Seems to me the best thing is to 'die' before I die.
Dave in Tenn:
--- Quote from: Reg on March 23, 2013, 12:09:17 AM ---I understand that man has no free will...God's will reigns supreme whether or not we realize it. I have been reading in the lake of fire series that God is responsible for the sin because he created man to be flawed so God has thus provided a solution (Jesus-salvation of all).
I am having trouble understanding how man is accountable. Saying that we willingly sin is confusing since we have no free will..I looked up the definition for accountable and the definition includes the term responsible! What we do is based on or whole sets of history, environment etc. not our choice made from nothing but free will? So confused here.
Reg
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Responsibility and Accountability are closely related, but not full-on synonyms. I'm not sure I can adequately explain it, but it's helpful to me to look at it in this 'noun' form.
One can 'take responsibility' but one cannot 'take accountability'.
Don't forget, we DO have a will! It's just that it's not FREE. We DO the things we DO, even if we cannot have chosen differently at any point in time. We can't draw good water out of a bad well. But the LORD is not done with us.
1Co 15:10 But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
Paul gave account (and was accountable) for this 'labouring more abundantly than they all', but he recognized God's responsibility for the Grace that was with him. That's just one of many places where Paul expresses in different ways that we DO the things we DO because of the things God is doing and has done.
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