Free Will And The Sovereignty Of God Essay
Free Will & The Sovereignty of God
Free will is a common debate among the believers and non-believers, what is free will, how can you truly obtain free will, what does free will mean, what does free will stand for? Numerous questions, yet they all have yet to be correctly answered, with honesty, integrity, no bias, and proof. Isn’t that what everyone asks for when you debate? Proof? Perhaps all this time they’ve been simply not looking in the right place, or maybe they misinterpreted the word of God?
Free will isn’t ability, it’s Liberty, we all have a limit to our ability, only God has unlimited ability. People ask why God allows us to choose, why doesn’t He just control everything we do so that no bad, no evil would ever happen. Ultimately …show more content…
the truth is that God wants us to choose to love Him, not force us to love Him, if we choose to love Him we follow His rules, His standards. We won’t ever succeed in meeting all of those standards without failing, and falling. It’s what makes us human, and that’s where our ability comes in, we have the liberty to choose but our ability to block out any and all sin is very limited, as our flesh is what causes us to do so, we eventually fall victim to our fleshly desires, we don’t have the ability to completely control our flesh. After the fall of man we were aware of sin, aware of our fleshly desires evidently costing us our ability to be pure.
We are tempted, we fail, we fall, we aren’t perfect; but that’s where God’s Grace & Mercy & Sovereignty comes in.
When we become followers in Christ, when we are baptized in the blood of the lamb, we are born again, a new creation. His blood gives us the ability to wash away our sins, His spirit gives us the ability to choose not to sin. Because of His mercy, and His grace we have the tools we need to have free will, to make our own choices. There’s that saying that God is a gentleman and that Satan is not; it originates from that idea and feeling of free will through God, the Devil puts us on a proverbial leash and drags us behind him through sin, pain, suffering; everything that can potentially kill us and mark us for hell, if we don’t come to Christ. “I am the way, the truth and the life. No one can come to the father except through me.” (John 14:6) “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’ The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.” (John 3:5-8) and then we have that one verse every christian knows from the time they are able to talk; “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.” (John
3:16-17)
We need Him in our lives, we need His power over us. God loves us. He will never leave us nor forsake us. He wouldn't leave us to fend for ourselves and doesn't want to see us hurt, but He won't force us to do anything we don’t want to do. He won't force us to be perfect little angels. He won't force us to follow Him, to follow His ways. If He cares for the sparrows, why wouldn't He care for us? His children, His creations? He loved us so much He gave His only son that we may live with not just liberty but ability.All I can say is that we can’t have free will without Christ in our lives to help us, guide us and interveign. We need Him more than oxygen, He is our freedom, He has broken our chains of sin and shame, what more could you ask for; what more could you want; what more do you need to believe?
Free will is a common debate among the believers and non-believers, what is free will, how can you truly obtain free will, what does free will mean, what does free will stand for? Numerous questions, yet they all have yet to be correctly answered, with honesty, integrity, no bias, and proof. Isn’t that what everyone asks for when you debate? Proof? Perhaps all this time they’ve been simply not looking in the right place, or maybe they misinterpreted the word of God?
Free will isn’t ability, it’s Liberty, we all have a limit to our ability, only God has unlimited ability. People ask why God allows us to choose, why doesn’t He just control everything we do so that no bad, no evil would ever happen. Ultimately …show more content…
the truth is that God wants us to choose to love Him, not force us to love Him, if we choose to love Him we follow His rules, His standards. We won’t ever succeed in meeting all of those standards without failing, and falling. It’s what makes us human, and that’s where our ability comes in, we have the liberty to choose but our ability to block out any and all sin is very limited, as our flesh is what causes us to do so, we eventually fall victim to our fleshly desires, we don’t have the ability to completely control our flesh. After the fall of man we were aware of sin, aware of our fleshly desires evidently costing us our ability to be pure.
We are tempted, we fail, we fall, we aren’t perfect; but that’s where God’s Grace & Mercy & Sovereignty comes in.
When we become followers in Christ, when we are baptized in the blood of the lamb, we are born again, a new creation. His blood gives us the ability to wash away our sins, His spirit gives us the ability to choose not to sin. Because of His mercy, and His grace we have the tools we need to have free will, to make our own choices. There’s that saying that God is a gentleman and that Satan is not; it originates from that idea and feeling of free will through God, the Devil puts us on a proverbial leash and drags us behind him through sin, pain, suffering; everything that can potentially kill us and mark us for hell, if we don’t come to Christ. “I am the way, the truth and the life. No one can come to the father except through me.” (John 14:6) “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’ The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.” (John 3:5-8) and then we have that one verse every christian knows from the time they are able to talk; “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.” (John
3:16-17)
We need Him in our lives, we need His power over us. God loves us. He will never leave us nor forsake us. He wouldn't leave us to fend for ourselves and doesn't want to see us hurt, but He won't force us to do anything we don’t want to do. He won't force us to be perfect little angels. He won't force us to follow Him, to follow His ways. If He cares for the sparrows, why wouldn't He care for us? His children, His creations? He loved us so much He gave His only son that we may live with not just liberty but ability.All I can say is that we can’t have free will without Christ in our lives to help us, guide us and interveign. We need Him more than oxygen, He is our freedom, He has broken our chains of sin and shame, what more could you ask for; what more could you want; what more do you need to believe?