A Short Followup

Sorry ... I've been thinking again about our "free will" that God has bestowed on each of us.  This relates to my last post concerning the fact that free will ... if it is truly free ... will always have a twin brother accompanying it.  Choice.

Consider all the things you have done in your past.  They were choices you made.  Some good and some not so good.  And God watched you make every one of them, even the sinful choices you made.  He may have tried to talk you out of committing the sinful ones ... but He "could not" stop you from committing even one of them ... but only because He "would not" change your free will.

God has given you that ... "right" ... no matter what.  He has determined, that is something He can not and will not interfere with.  If He did ... it wouldn't be your will.

In my last post I asked this question ... "Can a Christian walk away from God and loose his salvation?"

The argument usually given by those who believe in ... "once saved, always saved" is emphatically ... no.  So I answered my own question with this ...

"When you first hear the Gospel you have a choice; you can choose salvation and accept Jesus or you can choose to walk away.  If you had that right of choice then, don't you think you still have that same right to walk away from God anytime you choose?  If you don't still have that right … when did you lose it?"

Okay ... let's look at what is going on here.  I'm still speaking about your ... choice. 

I want you to tell me how many times in your life when you made a decision to do something ... God stepped in and removed your free will choice ... and did not allow you the right to go ahead and follow through with it?

I would say ... never.  He allows you to make mistakes.

So ... if God didn't remove your choice or choices in everyday life, even sinful choices we know He wouldn't want you to make ... how can you believe that God takes away your own free will choice to continue on ... "in the faith" or to leave it.

But if, by chance He did that ... when did He do it?

Again ... when did you lose that right?

I leave you with the words of God on this subject ...

"Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord ..."  (Isaiah 1:18)


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