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Kat:

Rick,

Looking at the meaning a resolution - a firm decision to do or not to do something..

No person would think a resolution is an absolute statement of fact and was certain to come about, mainly because we all have had experiences from circumstances of not being able to follow through on one thing or another. So a resolution is more like an expressed desire to strive and accomplish a goal... I don't think that is a sin. This is no more about a person's free will than anything else a person believes or hopes for is. Yes all people are vain and egotistical, that is the nature of the beast. Here is an email on this.

http://forums.bible-truths.com/index.php?topic=2302.0 ---------

> Hi L. Ray,

> One question? Only one. Very simple. If God controls everything,
> then what is sin?

> Blessings,
> Chad

Dear Chad:

Sin is sin regardless of whether "God controls everything," or God

controls nothing.  Sin is lawlessness, missing the mark, coming short

of the glory of God, etc.  God never ever does any of these things. Men

do. God made men so that they would "miss the mark," "fall short," and

be "lawless."  It is not a sin for God to have made man so weak as to

prevent him from having the power to resist sin. There is a great purpose

for God creating man so that he cannot overcome the lusts of his carnal

weak mind, which God created. For the details, read the rest of our site.

God be with you,
Ray

rick:
What possible power does man believe that he possesses which causes him to

"…oppose and exalt himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God [‘as a god’] sits in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God [‘is a god’]" (II Thes. 2:4)?

As long as this phantom god rules one’s heart, Jesus may only be "with us," but not really "IN us." For Jesus our King to sit in the heart of our temple, the man of sin must be put out, seeing that, "no man can serve two masters," and "what fellowship has light with darkness?"

rick:
Factor number one--CIRCUMSTANCES: What did the Holy Spirit of God inspire (cause?) James to explain as a major factor in what determines the true outcome of man’s will? Answer: "Whereas you know not what shall be on the morrow."

God changes the minds and wills of mankind around the world, a billion times a minute, through circumstances that "you know not" are actually the cause of your choices and your changed choices. We are often if not most of the time completely unaware of what actually caused us to do or say or think as we do.

rick:

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Rick,

Looking at the meaning a resolution - a firm decision to do or not to do something..


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That my point Kat, its not in man to make a firm decision to do or not to do and find complete success in his decision because it depends all on God.

That is the sum of my point. I would also like to say in either case no one is better than the other one, for all have fallen short of Gods glory.

God bless.

rick:
The theory of free will argues that anyone possessing this God-defying power can freely choose his own course in life by making his own decisions and choices that are CAUSED by no thing or no one. Every free-willer is said to have the power to do or not do, to think or not think, anything they wish, without anything causing them to do contrariwise. So surely Jesus possessed this power as well, did He not? Not.

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