Yes ... how about Adam?
In your Post #30, you claim: "We choose precisely what God wants based on the reasons he places before us."
Did Adam "choose" what God wanted? If so, then God would not have command Adam to not eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. If Adam did not "choose" what God wanted, then your claim that "we choose precisely what God wants" is in error.
God created Adam in His own image (no sin). And God told Adam:
Genesis 2:16-17 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.
Why did Adam eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil after God told Adam thou shalt not eat of it?
If God did not want Adam to eat, then Adam did not "choose precisely as God wants".
If God did want Adam to eat, then Gen 2:17 is in error and God's Word is meaningless.
God knowing Adam would eat and God providing redemption for all mankind because of Adam's transgression is not the same as Adam choosing "precisely as God wants". Adam sinned of his own choice.
God allows mankind to resist Him ... to turn away from Him even as He is holding out His Hand to us and calling us to Himself.
We have this life only to not resist Him when He calls us. And God uses the foolishness of preaching to save ... faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God. What do we do when we hear the word of God?
If we resist and suppress the truth in unrighteousness, we reap the consequences.
If we do not resist and do not suppress the truth in unrighteousness, we reap the blessings.
In your Post #30, you claim: "We choose precisely what God wants based on the reasons he places before us."
Did Adam "choose" what God wanted? If so, then God would not have command Adam to not eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. If Adam did not "choose" what God wanted, then your claim that "we choose precisely what God wants" is in error.
God created Adam in His own image (no sin). And God told Adam:
Genesis 2:16-17 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.
Why did Adam eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil after God told Adam thou shalt not eat of it?
If God did not want Adam to eat, then Adam did not "choose precisely as God wants".
If God did want Adam to eat, then Gen 2:17 is in error and God's Word is meaningless.
God knowing Adam would eat and God providing redemption for all mankind because of Adam's transgression is not the same as Adam choosing "precisely as God wants". Adam sinned of his own choice.
God allows mankind to resist Him ... to turn away from Him even as He is holding out His Hand to us and calling us to Himself.
We have this life only to not resist Him when He calls us. And God uses the foolishness of preaching to save ... faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God. What do we do when we hear the word of God?
If we resist and suppress the truth in unrighteousness, we reap the consequences.
If we do not resist and do not suppress the truth in unrighteousness, we reap the blessings.