Featured Do We Have Free Will 2

You would not have been saved had you not exercised your free will to choose God.

Is that correct?

If so, by exercising your free will to reject God, after you initially chose God, can you remove yourself from being saved?

 

A double minded man could go back and forth their whole life. They may not know their own heart. God only knows the outcome. Do you know very many who can never make up their mind?

 

I take this to mean you agree that a Christian can lose his salvation in the same fashion that he gained his salvation...by virtue of free will.

 

So God's word is dead, . . . John 6:68, Romans 10:17, Hebrews 4:12.

 

Very true. That does not mean we fully agree.

 

How does someone, of their own free will, simply choose to change their mind about what they fundamentally believe to be true?
How does someone wake up one morning and suddenly change his mind and believe that the Sky is Green and the Grass is Blue?

Certainly that is easier than one day believing that YOU are master of your destiny and death is "nothingness" and 'god' is an invisible unicorn that makes the simple minded feel good ... and the next day CHOOSING (theoretically of your own free will) to suddenly believe that God is real, those that reject God are the fools, there is a life after death, and Jesus Christ is your Lord and Savior?

How is this "free will choice" to turn everything you believe upside down really supposed to work?

 

Yes. Every human chooses to hide from God, every time. It is what our free natural fallen will wants to do. “Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed.” That is why “it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God” and why God must “remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh” and why “No one can come to [Jesus] unless the Father who sent [Him] draws them”.

 

I don’t really see that in the man whose first words to God were to throw Eve under the bus for what Adam had done, and then to blame God for giving him Eve in the first place. After this, he goes on to raise two sons where one immediately kills the other. There may have been room for a little more “regeneration” in Adam.

 

Sorry, but I am just not following you here.
I was only speaking of Adam and the events recorded in Genesis about him.
Technically, God gave Adam several chances to repent.
”Where were you?” was not a question that God did not know the answer to. “Who told you that you were naked?” and “Did you eat from the Tree?” were both questions that God already knew the answer to (omniscient), so they were all really invitations for Adam to confess and repent.

 

Thank you for the clarification.
I agree with everything you wrote with the possible exception of the implication that Adam was saved without repentance. That feels like an argument from silence.