So what, God just came to save us and that’s it. Not so fast! Notice that God chose to send his Son and not regretfully or reluctantly. Does that mean that God has freewill too? Yes. If God has freewill then why did he give it to us? He gave it to us because he wanted us to “…Not perish but have eternal life.” Without freewill we would be robots that would break, rust, and corrode. The Bible has many examples of freewill, such as: in Genesis where Lucifer made a choice to be “greater than God.” And as a result he fell from heaven but some of the angels also chose to go with Satan. Second is both Adam and Eve had a choice to pick or not to pick from the Tree of Life before sin entered the world. You might recall that I said that the correct definition was being able to control our thoughts, but the real definition is that freewill is being able to choose to accept or deny the love of Christ. Because God loved us so much he created a world where man could love God back. But we would still have to make a choice of whether we should or should not love him. And this is the reason sin is in the world. Sin is a result of freewill, which means that eternal life is a result of
So what, God just came to save us and that’s it. Not so fast! Notice that God chose to send his Son and not regretfully or reluctantly. Does that mean that God has freewill too? Yes. If God has freewill then why did he give it to us? He gave it to us because he wanted us to “…Not perish but have eternal life.” Without freewill we would be robots that would break, rust, and corrode. The Bible has many examples of freewill, such as: in Genesis where Lucifer made a choice to be “greater than God.” And as a result he fell from heaven but some of the angels also chose to go with Satan. Second is both Adam and Eve had a choice to pick or not to pick from the Tree of Life before sin entered the world. You might recall that I said that the correct definition was being able to control our thoughts, but the real definition is that freewill is being able to choose to accept or deny the love of Christ. Because God loved us so much he created a world where man could love God back. But we would still have to make a choice of whether we should or should not love him. And this is the reason sin is in the world. Sin is a result of freewill, which means that eternal life is a result of