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Sometimes the use of force is the only moral thing to do. If someone attacked my wife or child, I would be doing a great evil if I did not protect them. And most likely, I would have to use force to protect them The LEGITIMATE use of force to restrain evil is good.

A better way to say it would be that only God has ABSOLUTE FREEDOM. Our will is intact, but it does things by permission, God needs no permission to do anything. He alone is Autonomous

What does the Bible say? I don't know a passage that answers that question, can you help me out?

Good answer. I believe everything you just said. But I also believe that God does not take pleasure in the death of the wicked, and the basis of reprobation is not that God hated them ( I mean hatred defined as we normally define it in English, not the biblical sense of hate) before they were...

I do not even think that all Calvinists interpret the word hate in the Romans 9 the way Tyndall 1946 interprets it. To say that Edom was hated with an everlasting and unconditional hatred is almost like saying Edom was evil because God hated them and desired to punish them. I do not think...

That is, if I hate them in the way you are defining it.

Looks like a couple posts got deleted. Utilyan quotes 1 Cor. 10:13 as an argument against sin nature/ human inability and I mentioned that the verse is only a promise to Christians, not to unregenerate people in the flesh. It looks like someone took it as me attacking Utiliyan, which it wasn't...

And as far as the LORD laying Edom waste, Obadiah tells us why. Not because of unconditional hate, but because of JUST PUNISHMENT. Sound hermeneutics. Scripture interprets scripture

How do I know the mind of God? I only know what is revealed IN SCRIPTURE the same as you. Are you saying we cannot know what the Scripture reveals? The Spirit reveals the truth of SCRIPTURE through illumination Since you translate the text as unconditional hate, then are we to hate father...

The but hat was part of a post that I started. "but that (missed the t) means God chose Jacob over Esau, not that God hated Esau the way we normally define hate" and then cite the scriptures where the word is used that way. I saw that Saved By Grace answered you aptly and well in post 84. I...

but hat Here is something for those who argue that the drawing is the preaching of the gospel only. The people in John 6 heard the gospel straight from Jesus' lips, but most did not come. Jesus explained this by saying that no one is able to come unless drawn. This is in explanation to why...

Sadly, I say no.

1. Yes, I believe that the Jews return to the land is a fulfillment of prophecy 2. Yes, I believe in a literal second coming of Jesus to earth to reign. 3. Yes, see number 1 4. It seems that the Bible teaches that the temple will be rebuilt before the Second Coming. 5. Not sure, but...

1 Corinthians 10:13 was written to Christians, not people who still walk after the flesh. So yes, Christian's have been set free from the dominion and power of sin. Not so with those in the flesh. As to the rest, would you please give a brief exegesis of Romans 7:20-24. Don't tell me what it...

So they were reconciled to God before they came to Jesus? I think it is the death of Jesus atones the sinners who come to Jesus, who of course were first drawn by the Father.

Christ tasted death for every man. But God intended it to save those who believe. God did not intend it to save all, because He foreknew not all would be saved. But that does not mean their unbelief and hardness of heart was His Will for them. The death of Christ saves those who believe AND...

Sin nature is not an excuse to sin, it is a recognition that we need the Grace of God FROM FIRST TO LAST. It is a recognition that without Christ we are without strength, without hope, without life. Salvation changes all that though

What does Jonathon Edwards say about free will?

Those who believe are given to Jesus by the Father

What do you mean? Tons of lost people got saved in the Bible! Second point is correct, albeit redundant, though.