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Free Will Again
OBrenda:
Eileen....Way to go Girlfried!
winner08:
I read Ray's paper on free will. I don't quite understand what he meant by we have no free will but we do have choices to make. I think you guys know what i am saying. If I am driving down the road and come to a left or right turn circumstance will dictate what way I will go. What is the difference between free will and choice?
Darren
musicman:
We do not have a free will and we can not make free choices. Choices are caused.
OBrenda:
Hey Darren,
I thought Ray meant, that we make choices all the time. But allot of the choices we make are influenced by a cause. For instance, a person that grows up with allot of money will make different choices and have different beliefs about money, than someone who grows up poor & hungry! Also that same rich person that never experienced lack, can survive hurricane Katrina and have their entire value system for money change over night!
I am not sure about this, maybe someone can shed some light but..
Not all choices we make may have an effect on our salvation, like choosing a red or blue cup to put your coffee in.
But we can not make any "free choices" good or bad outside the Will of God! We do have our own Will desires and understanding. And out of that we make choices that are influenced by many external things out of our control. If you want/will to go to the beach today and you wake up to a tropical storm your probably not going to go.
I see it like a pin ball machine, we are the little silver ball, lifes circumstances are all the bumpers and flippers that God has placed there to reach a destination we can't comprehend. But we sure know it when one of those flippers hits us in the head. ;D
cherokee:
--- Quote from: OBrenda on June 21, 2008, 07:29:55 AM ---I see it like a pin ball machine, we are the little silver ball, lifes circumstances are all the bumpers and flippers that God has placed there to reach a destination we can't comprehend. But we sure know it when one of those flippers hits us in the head. ;D
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OBrenda,
You sure nailed it here. :D
I can't count the times I have been hit in the head with one of those flippers. :'(
Peace and Love,
Suzie
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