RE: Free Will: Fact or Fiction
September 25, 2012 at 5:58 pm
(This post was last modified: September 25, 2012 at 5:59 pm by Reasonable_Jeff.)
I don't see that anyone really has free will. This seems to be more of an illusion than reality.
Did you choose your parents or what they would teach you? Did you choose the time period and culture that you would be born in? Did you choose the opportunities that would be made available to you in life? Did you choose your personality or preferences?
On top of all that, you at all times choose what you most desire, our decisions are chained/limited by what our greatest desire is (you can have conflicting ones).....but we can't even choose our desires.
I believe only God can change your desire. I believe that by nature people do not find God appealing.
It's only by God's intervening that anyone would see a relationship with Him as desirable or even plausible.
I believe that (for real Christians) God changes the desires of your heart and allows you to see Him as He is....glorious.
These are my opinions as a Reformed Christian. I am not stating them as fact so please no "prove it" statements. I'm simply wanting to throw in as it were.
Did you choose your parents or what they would teach you? Did you choose the time period and culture that you would be born in? Did you choose the opportunities that would be made available to you in life? Did you choose your personality or preferences?
On top of all that, you at all times choose what you most desire, our decisions are chained/limited by what our greatest desire is (you can have conflicting ones).....but we can't even choose our desires.
I believe only God can change your desire. I believe that by nature people do not find God appealing.
It's only by God's intervening that anyone would see a relationship with Him as desirable or even plausible.
I believe that (for real Christians) God changes the desires of your heart and allows you to see Him as He is....glorious.
These are my opinions as a Reformed Christian. I am not stating them as fact so please no "prove it" statements. I'm simply wanting to throw in as it were.
