By the way, Mr.Shiloh, did you miss my post 5250 that was in response to the biblical claim to which you alluded, which was: "God cannot lie"? It appears I shouldn't have given you the benefit of the doubt after all about being able to reconcile a very apparent contradiction: God's Omnipotence, yet at the same time not so omnipotent since clearly his power of will is limited. How can God at once do all things and at the same time cannot do everything? If you can't reconcile Tit 1:2 with the omnipotence passages I cited in my aforementioned post, then I guess we'll have to add this Pauline passage to the list of lies God has told about himself. With all your early childhood theological training, one would think that you would have a ready answer for such theological problems. And, for that matter, a ready answer for how could God himself be a free moral agent if he isn't free to do anything he wants? And if God himself doesn't have free will, what would make you think any of moral creatures created in his image have it?