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Your error is in thinking that, if Satan and his demons will one day be forced to worship and glorify God, that therefore worshiping and glorifying God by humans exercising their free will is not any great obligation.

Exercise is a key element in honoring our body as a temple of the Holy Spirit. Some jobs involve plenty of physical labor, but sedentary jobs can cause health issues. Thus, neglecting your health and allowing extreme laziness (sloth) or a completely sedentary lifestyle cause weakness can be...

No, not most. Parasites are an exceptionally rare cause of obesity. Obesity is overwhelmingly driven by genetics, diet, and lifestyle, with only an estimated 10% to 15% of chronic gut cases linked to specific weight-altering parasites (like Giardia). In fact, many intestinal parasites are...

Do you have scripture to support your claim that Satan and demons worship God?

To fear God, give glory to God, and worship God contain the qualities of loving and enjoying Him. You would need to love and enjoy God to fear, glorify, and worship God.

No reconciliation is needed. Both principles are true and congruent. @Marooncat79 said: The chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever. If we glorify and enjoy God, that is doing the will of the Father in Heaven, thus, we will not be working iniquity and be told to depart from...

My scenario was based on a person who is drunk, not a person with a medical condition. I said: If a man is staggering, slurring his words, and stumbling around — we ask why? Someone says, he was drinking whiskey at the tavern all day. So the staggering, slurring, and stumbling are not...

Yes. Obesity is usually a sign of sinning by eating too much, not exercising, etc. If a man is staggering, slurring his words, and stumbling around — we ask why? Someone says, he was drinking whiskey at the tavern all day. So the staggering, slurring, and stumbling are not necessarily sins...

To be fair, free will is not necessarily always running away from God, disobeying His laws, or pursuing inherent sinful lusts. Many unsaved individuals begin to seek God, obey His laws written in their conscience, and exercise rigorous restraint toward sinful lusts. In some cases, people like...

Gluttony was a sin of Sodom. Ezekiel 16:49 Now this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed, and complacent; they did not help the poor and needy.

I am in favor of divine healing. I am opposed to war.

What I consider a colossal error might not be perceived as such by other Christians. Believing in divine healing and opposition to war are aspects that are important to me.

You must understand that nobody can violate your free will. All someone can do is try to prevent a free will decision from being fulfilled. A person in prison still has free will, but their options for exercising it are limited. By their free will they choose to comply with the warden’s rules...

Nobody is perfect in all their doctrines. Charles Finney is fantastic in most of his writings. I also like Andrew Murray, John Wesley, Oswald Chambers, Charles Spurgeon, DL Moody, Erwin Lutzer, David Jeremiah, Chuck Swindoll, Charles Stanley. Every Bible teacher has a few colossal errors that...

Every verse that commands people to do something. Every verse that commands people to not do something. Every verse that talks about choice or choosing. God would receive no glory or honor if people were robots who are forced to obey God. Joshua 24:15 And if it seem evil unto you to serve...

God does honor our free will, but is not pleased with the sin we may commit when we exercise our free will. Demons do not honor free will, they possess and force individuals to do bad things. When God does something to get our attention, He is not violating our free will. God lets us suffer...

Jonah chose to not go to Nineveh and God honored his free will, but persuaded Jonah to obey. God honored Saul’s free will to go to Damascus to punish Christians, but prevented him from achieving his aim. So, it is not a lack of free will that is involved, it is God doing things to thwart or...

If the state of the unsaved was actually “total depravity”, wouldn’t that mean a saved person’s state is “total non-depravity”? We know that’s not true. Unsaved people differ widely in how evil they are and saved people differ widely in how righteously they behave. Since Jesus preached...

How on earth could free will apply only to salvation? How could we have independent choice about salvation, but be robots concerning everything else in life?

You cannot directly argue someone into true faith, because faith is fundamentally a matter of the heart and personal experience, not just intellectual assent. While debate can clear intellectual hurdles and dismantle logical barriers, genuine belief requires an internal, relational shift that...