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- God's grace is a free gift, often described with terms like “undeserved” or “unmerited favor.” He doesn’t count peoples’ successes and failures to determine who receives his love or life. Instead, from the kind intention of his will, God gives all goodness freely, and in the Bible he describes himself as gracious.
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Jan 4, 2022 · Scripture is clear that God knows the future (Matthew 6:8; Psalm 139:1-4) and has total sovereign control over all things (Colossians 1:16-17; Daniel 4:35). The Bible also says that we must choose God or be eternally separated from Him.
Aug 7, 2014 · The Bible does teach that salvation is completely by grace, not works. And it teaches very clearly that humans wouldn’t will to be saved on their own, apart from the Holy Spirit. Left on our own, we are “dead” toward spiritual things (Eph 2:1, 5), and corpses can’t do much of anything last I checked.
Oct 28, 2022 · But we are saved by grace, and no one can boast (Ephesians 2:8–9). God is not obligated to save anyone (He has free will), yet He desires that all would be saved and come to repentance (1 Timothy 2:4, 2 Peter 3:9). He offers salvation to everyone (Titus 2:11) yet He will not force anyone to come to Him.
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I am not sure what Tyson means by ‘free will.’ So I may not be able to answer the question if he means something by free will that I don’t believe in. Let’s try out a definition and let the Scriptures shed light on this tension. I think Tyson will get the answer he is after, at least the best I can give it. The definition of free will that creates ...
Now if that is what Tyson means in his question, I can’t answer his question because I don’t think such a thing exists anywhere in the universe, except in the will of God. Only God has free will in the sense of ultimate self-determination. Here are a few of the reasons why I think that, because I don’t know whether Tyson agrees with that or not. Je...
Another reason I don’t think ultimate self-determination exists in human beings is 2 Timothy 2:24–25, where Paul says that the Lord’s servant should correct “his opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth.” Repentance is the flip side of the coin of faith. Faith is on one side of the coin an...
Another reason is that John says in 1 John 5:1, “Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God.” Self-willed faith does not bring about the new birth. Just the opposite. The new birth brings about faith. Faith is, therefore, not the result of human self-determination but of the new birth. One more reason (among many, many more...
Nevertheless — and I think this gets at what Tyson is asking about. We are responsible, accountable, for our preferences and our choices. If God is sovereign over the human will, are we responsible? Yes, we are. The Bible says so over and over again that we are. Our choices are our choices. They are true choices. We have a will. Our will is active....
Jan 4, 2022 · His grace is a free gift, our faith is a free gift, and our salvation is a free gift given to those whom God has chosen “before the foundation of the world” (Ephesians 1:4). Why did He choose to do it this way?
St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas wrote extensively on free will, with Augustine focusing on the importance of free will in his responses to the Manichaeans, and also on the limitations of a concept of unlimited free will as denial of grace, in his refutations of Pelagius.
Jul 26, 2016 · The remedy for this condition is the free and sovereign grace of God bringing about a root change in our fallen nature. This miraculous, blood-bought, Spirit-wrought change in what we perceive and prefer is described in several ways in the New Testament.
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