Like Ray always tries to tell people ....some people have real difficulty letting go of "free will".
This little article from Babylon made me think about Free Will more and it seems to me now that free will is a sensory illusion. We think we know what it is but we do not.
As an example...you look at this word and say...it is
RED..... but in
actual fact it is not red.....it is only reflecting red light ....the thing you are looking at....
is anything but red. Think about the world now
White is called pure because it
reflects All of the colors in it while black absorbs or hold "the colors" and sends nothing to the eye.
Yet we all walk around believing the world "looks" and really is this way.
We are made and are unaware of this delusion of free will until our eyes are opened. The remaining world are going through their life experience on earth with this concept of free will and "think" they are in control.
I think in another thread asked why man was called foolish....he is foolish only in relation to himself. God made man so later we can each reflect on our earthly life experience and understand His deeper truths.....only at judgement do we see ourselves as we really are here on earth.
Heaven is not a physical place but it is where we have relinquished all "our"control and are in total agreement with our Lord Jesus and the Will of the Father. We then can rest and look down the corridor of time and see the good of doing what the Father wills.
Even now we who are beginning to understand see in the news around the world and even in our personal lives...
the really stupid (foolish) things that people are saying and doing.
(Jam 4:14 WNT) when, all the while, you do not even know what will happen to-morrow. For what is the nature of your life? Why, it is but a mist, which appears for a short time and then is seen no more.
(Luk 23:34 KJVR) Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. And they parted his raiment, and cast lots.
Beloved