(January 31, 2018 at 2:22 pm)Chad32 Wrote:(January 31, 2018 at 2:17 pm)alpha male Wrote: I'm disagreeing with the assertion that god doesn't grant us any autonomy.
Well there's plenty of evidence from the bible that says I'm right. I mean, Adam and Eve get kicked out of Eden for disobeying him once. A guy gets stones to death for picking up sticks on the wrong day of the week. Moses and Jonah say pick someone else when Yahweh wants them to do something, and he forces them anyway. Not to mention Moses gets banned from the promise land for striking a rock, instead of talking to it. Where's the autonomy here?
Your examples are like saying that there isn't autonomy in a democracy because people who break the law are put in jail. Well, yeah they are, but those of us who do the right things have freedoms.
Here's an example of us being given autonomy and authority in this life, and even greater position in the next. We judge the world, and judge the angels.
1 Cor 6
2 Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world will be judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters? 3 Do you not know that we shall judge angels? How much more, things that pertain to this life?
