Featured Does God Have Libertarian Free Will?

Remembered one or one was brought to my mind.

"And thou, Capernaum,
which art exalted unto heaven,
shalt be brought down to hell:
for if the mighty works,
which had been done in thee,
had been done in Sodom,
it would have remained until this day."
Matthew 11:23

So He had thought about an (or more than one?) alternative scenario, and knew the result.

 

He can do anything. The fact He did it would make it by defacto consistent with His attributes and Nature.
His description of Himself to us was done from omniscience.

 

What does that mean for God to have libertarian free will?

God is infinitie, sovereign and absolutely omniscient, omnipootant. Immutable in His nature and will.

God is holy and infinitely good.

 

It is impossible for God to lie, and He cannot deny Himself. That doesn't sound like libertarian free will to me.

 

You nearly took the words from my.....keyboard?

 

You previous two missed post #11

 

but, surely this implies that God's "free will" is bound up with mans, which is a non starter.

 

this has got nothing to do with the "will" of God, but His Unchanging, Perfect Nature.

 

Steve, your question seems to be an attempt to anthropomorphize God.
Can anyone know the mind of God in order to declare what He chooses and how He chooses?
Libertarian is such a man-made concept. It is impossible to shove God into a human created box.

 

who, or what is God's will "bound" to?

 

he can do anything consistent with his attributes and nature!

 

Think real free will would mean that there is nothing external that can force one change their mind!

 

what God desires to do is always the right and perfect thing...

 

This is pretty clear teaching, thank you.

 

You going to just keep repeating yourself?

 

I can rejoice in that there is now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus (Romans 8:1)., but would you mind explaining please your phrase "But our wills are not 'freed'."

I know I don't love God as much as I profess to but do love that sin a little too much.
When I am fessed up and clear headed I cannot understand why it is so easy for me to be hypocritical.

 

I suppose that depends upon the perspective, Jon.

To me, man's will is bound by his love for sin and the pleasure of it.
Upon the new birth, I see that will being freed from one thing, and bound to another.

As believers, we have now become the servants ( willing workers of it ) of righteousness ( Romans 6 ), whereas before we were the servants of sin.
So, "technically speaking", I do not see man's will set to neutral by God ( freed by "Prevenient Grace" ), but I instead see it as described above.


To state it straightforwardly, I agree with you.

 

Romans 7:14-25
Galatians 5:16-17.

It happens to all of us, my friend.