~ This is the very first Message board
that I've been on which does not believe in FREE Will.
When I ask the others what their Will is FREE of ? No one has ever answered.
But they want to teach me that we have a FREE Will. Which is not of the Bible.
I tell them yes, we have a will to choose.
But our Will is not FREE of any Choice!
They can't stand me! ~
Your issue is one of semantics, perhaps it should be called "Freedom of Choice."
Princeton definition of Will: "determine by choice; "This action was willed and intended"
With all due respect, the idea that "we have a will to choose" seems preposterous to me.
We are here for God's good pleasure, our steps are ordained by the Lord, For it is God who wills
"I have known, O Jehovah, that not of man [is] his way, Not of man the going and establishing of his step."
I remember the cloudy days of deception back in Babylon wherein I thought I had a will to choose. I loathe those days and will never go back. Someone once said "the Truth shall set you free." The day I realized I have no will, I felt freedom like never before.
And I praise God that my salvation, my "if by any means I may partake of the earlier resurrection," is not dependent upon any will of mine to choose, but rather by the order of the Lord and his perfect choosing. No matter what happens, I will be IN God, in the end. And there is nothing I can do, or choose to do, to change that.