free will

According to your Calvinist teacher(s), whom I am currently reading about via this enlightening criticism of your doctrines, you all teach that God predestines people to sin. Thus, aka, God makes people sin. You say God chooses people to be saved, so why would you not say that God chooses which...

This is a discussion that was originally in the Baptist only section but now is opened to all Christian denominations. Do you believe God grants man the ability to choose to follow His son or go their own way? (Which is what free-will means, the ability to choose on your own) Why or why not?

After years of working through my Soteriology and pouring over the scriptures I have come to the place that neither Calvinism nor Arminianism fully encompass the biblical view. They both have things I disagree with. That being said I searched and searched for a biblical sound doctrine that was...

Do we have free will to choose to believe and follow God? Hi all some interesting scriptures shared from a good brother. SOME INTERESTING SCRIPTURES ON FREE WILL PHILEMON 1:14 (different translations) (ARV 2005) but without thy mind I would do nothing, that thy goodness should not be as of...

A study on coming to Christ And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely. And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life. No man can come to me, except the Father...

The way the gospel works. In the gospels, Jesus tells us to preach the gospel. Preaching means to announce. So when people hear the gospel followed by whoever believes has eternal life, those who believe know God saved them. And when told to repent and undergo baptism, it confirms their faith as...

Central to God’s plan and desire for people is that we learn to love. He wants us to love Him, and He wants us to love each other. That love is central to God’s plan is expressed in many ways in Scripture: NIV Matthew 22:37 Jesus replied: "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with...