So I'm real excited to start my first blog today...thanks to my dear friends PT and Nea! I hope that I will keep up with it and continue to write and affect those who read my blog! So here goes....
Today at PT's house, we got in the conversation about predestination and free will. I knew that I believed in free will, but I didn't have a full force argument as to why. So I CHOSE to look up some verses and theologist views to expand my thoughts. I did find that in some manner predestination is true. God has a plan and His will, will be done. For instance, to fulfill his prophecies (sending Jesus to die for our sins), He did determine redemptive history. (Luke 4:43) But does it mean that it is predestined for us to go to heaven or hell??? Definitely not! God doesn't micromanage our lives. If the Gospel is presented to us we have the choice whether to receive it or not. His grace is enough to set us free!!! (Joshua 24:15)
All in all, God gives us the choice to follow Him and choose to accept Jesus as our Lord and Savior!
This is just one way to armor yourself with the Word of God. I have been stuck in many situations where non-believers have questioned my faith. The only way I have found to defend myself is to be "well-suited" with the Word. "...the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God..." -Ephesians 6:17
This will rock your world...
THE PROBLEM WITH PREDESTINATIONAccording to Reformed Theology when someone, lets call her Molly, accepted Christ it wasn’t really because of her own free will, but because God created her specifically to accept Christ, without a choice.
Now suppose Molly's grown son dies without accepting Christ. Reformed Theology tells us that God created Molly's son specifically to spend eternity separated from God, in hell. Therefore all the years of prayer, anguish and hope that Molly’s son would someday accept Christ was a waste of time.
It’s one thing to have a loved one that rejects God because of his own choice, but it is another to believe that person never had a chance because God never permitted or allowed them a chance.
To follow predestination to its logical conclusion we should not feel any sense of grief or sadness when an unsaved friend or relative dies and spends eternity in hell. Rather we should rejoice because the person is going to hell, just as God intended.
(www.freewill-predestination.com/freewill.html)
