Job 12:16 With GOD is strength and wisdom: the DECEIVED and the DECEIVER are his.
Jeremiah 20:7 O LORD, thou hast DECEIVED me, and I am DECEIVED: thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am in derision daily, everyone mocketh me.
Ezekiel 14:9 And if the prophet be DECEIVED, when God have spoken a thing, I the Lord have DECEIVED that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand on him, and will destroy him from my people Israel.
Do we have free will; or, are we just and instrument in God's hand?
Adam showed he had free will and we live with its consequences. God did not tell a direct No since He had breathed into him to know the consequences- he has foreknowledge. 'The seed in itself' is what soul means. Man's ability to know the truth by the light of the word (Word which was God) makes his inner man. He has ability to know and it is evident in his sudden sense of shame at his nakedness.
God's commandment was, "And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:/ But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die."(Ge.2:16-17)
Moses's exhortation: "
I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:" (De.30:19)
Holiness of God sets free will but whosoever is from God does not sin, since 'be ye holy for I am holy' has been shown as doable by Jesus Christ
Jeremiah 20:7 O LORD, thou hast DECEIVED me, and I am DECEIVED: thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am in derision daily, everyone mocketh me.
Ezekiel 14:9 And if the prophet be DECEIVED, when God have spoken a thing, I the Lord have DECEIVED that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand on him, and will destroy him from my people Israel.
Do we have free will; or, are we just and instrument in God's hand?
God Bless You
Adam showed he had free will and we live with its consequences. God did not tell a direct No since He had breathed into him to know the consequences- he has foreknowledge. 'The seed in itself' is what soul means. Man's ability to know the truth by the light of the word (Word which was God) makes his inner man. He has ability to know and it is evident in his sudden sense of shame at his nakedness.
God's commandment was, "And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:/ But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die."(Ge.2:16-17)
Moses's exhortation: "
I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:" (De.30:19)
Holiness of God sets free will but whosoever is from God does not sin, since 'be ye holy for I am holy' has been shown as doable by Jesus Christ
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