I find it interesting that people who do not know the bible will make bold claims such as "free will is myth". Really? Perhaps you are referring to the fact that free will is not free of consequences. That is just common sense. You are taught in elementary that every action has a reaction (Albert Einstein) but yet, many believe that their behavior and decisions do not apply here. That is a fallacy and a weak argument when it comes to theology.
When Humankind was made, we were given free will. That means by the very definition that we have a choice. So to have a choice, we must have an alternative to God's will. In Adam and Eve's case, they were told not to eat of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, and they chose to do it anyway. We can make claims that Satan made them do it, but that is in fact also a fallacy. It was a choice that Eve made and then she offered to Adam and he made to disobey. Cain chose to kill Abel and so on and so forth....So the consequence is what we now see running amok all over creation. They had free will, so they had to have a opportunity to have to make a choice between doing what God said or doing what their own understanding led them to.
Fast forward to now and we still have free will but we do not have freedom from consequence, just like those in the garden did not. Even accepting Jesus is a choice. Nothing is forced upon anyone. So, using the fact that their is consequence to not accepting Jesus is not disproving free will...it is only validating that every action has a reaction and every actions has a consequence, positive or negative. It is driving in the point that the only way to heaven is through Jesus and it is confirming that God stands by what he says and when He said that we have free will, He stood by that claim even if we make bad decisions. Let us not get so philosophical that we try to make up stuff as we go.
When Humankind was made, we were given free will. That means by the very definition that we have a choice. So to have a choice, we must have an alternative to God's will. In Adam and Eve's case, they were told not to eat of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, and they chose to do it anyway. We can make claims that Satan made them do it, but that is in fact also a fallacy. It was a choice that Eve made and then she offered to Adam and he made to disobey. Cain chose to kill Abel and so on and so forth....So the consequence is what we now see running amok all over creation. They had free will, so they had to have a opportunity to have to make a choice between doing what God said or doing what their own understanding led them to.
Fast forward to now and we still have free will but we do not have freedom from consequence, just like those in the garden did not. Even accepting Jesus is a choice. Nothing is forced upon anyone. So, using the fact that their is consequence to not accepting Jesus is not disproving free will...it is only validating that every action has a reaction and every actions has a consequence, positive or negative. It is driving in the point that the only way to heaven is through Jesus and it is confirming that God stands by what he says and when He said that we have free will, He stood by that claim even if we make bad decisions. Let us not get so philosophical that we try to make up stuff as we go.
I find it interesting that people who do not know the bible will make bold claims such as "free will is myth". Really? Perhaps you are referring to the fact that free will is not free of consequences. That is just common sense. You are taught in elementary that every action has a reaction (Albert Einstein) but yet, many believe that their behavior and decisions do not apply here. That is a fallacy and a weak argument when it comes to theology.
When Humankind was made, we were given free will. That means by the very definition that we have a choice. So to have a choice, we must have an alternative to God's will. In Adam and Eve's case, they were told not to eat of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, and they chose to do it anyway. We can make claims that Satan made them do it, but that is in fact also a fallacy. It was a choice that Eve made and then she offered to Adam and he made to disobey. Cain chose to kill Abel and so on and so forth....So the consequence is what we now see running amok all over creation. They had free will, so they had to have a opportunity to have to make a choice between doing what God said or doing what their own understanding led them to.
Fast forward to now and we still have free will but we do not have freedom from consequence, just like those in the garden did not. Even accepting Jesus is a choice. Nothing is forced upon anyone. So, using the fact that their is consequence to not accepting Jesus is not disproving free will...it is only validating that every action has a reaction and every actions has a consequence, positive or negative. It is driving in the point that the only way to heaven is through Jesus and it is confirming that God stands by what he says and when He said that we have free will, He stood by that claim even if we make bad decisions. Let us not get so philosophical that we try to make up stuff as we go.