"Only God can save and He has chosen to save those that believe in His son."

[AustinC]

I have a dog. I am sovereign over my dog. He eats when I feed him; drinks when I give him water, and he lives in my backyard. He has his own bedroom (garage) and he enters it when I tell him to.

He loves to go camping. When I take him camping, I put him on a leash with a 20 foot radius, therefore he can roam at his will for a diameter of 40 feet. Do I lose my sovereignty because I give him limited freedom of choice? No, I do not.

God has everyone of us on a leash. We can go so far and no further. Our heartbeat is in His hands. With barely a thought He can bring us home, or send us to eternity with satan and his angels. God did not lose His sovereignty when He put me on a leash in this world, nor did I become sovereign over anything except what HE put under ME, according as He willed. Therefore, He always was, is, and always will be the Sovereign Lord and I have, and will always have, the liberty He chooses for me to have. "Where the Spirit of the LORD is, there is liberty."

If you have ever read anything I post, you would know that what you wrote shows us that your dog does not have free-will. He is confined by the master's decisions and cannot leave those boundaries. Therefore, since we were bound and enslaved by sin, we had no capacity to choose God as our new Master. We were damned to be abused by sin.

"But God..."

Thank you so much for your analogy. You show us that we do not have free will.

 

[MrW]

I have said before I get confused on this site, trying to figure out what goes where, and finding posts I've already made.

I have figured out this thread is on the Calvinism & Arminian Debate forum, and I've little interest in that debate.