If everything in our life was predestined by God, then you would have to attribute the evil a person commits to God. This is blasphemy!
Not everything in your life is predestinated, but salvation is, because you either belong to God, you are one of His sheep or you are not one of His sheep.
"For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds be reproved, But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought by God." John 3:20-21.
"It is written in the prophets, "And they shall all be taught by God." Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto Me." John 6:45
It's quite simple. every man is taught by God and hath learned of the Father and any man that is taught by the Father comes to Jesus Christ, no exceptions, and we know that only the Father can draw a man to Jesus Christ, and once drawn Christ loses none, so if you do not have Jesus Christ as your Lord and saviour then you havn't been taught by God. Because it says all that are taught by the Father come to Jesus Christ.
1. How can Love exist without free will?
God is love.
2. How can we co-reign with Christ and not have free-will?
We don't reign at the moment, we are heirs to the promise.
3. How can one truly reign at all without free will?
Our will is limited at the moment, I don't think we can imagine what eternity will be like.
4. What does it mean to be made in the image of God, and what role does free-will have in this?
We are made in the image of God, but Adam and Eve lost their first estate, and we inherited their fallen status, and all the curses that went along with that.
5. Does God really need to control everything in order to be secure?
He does control everything, nothing can exist without Him, this would be correcty; for something to be secure it must be controlled by God.
6. How do you have a relationship without free-will?
A relationship with God, is not our choice, Jesus Christ says, it He that chooses us, not that we choose Him, I still have the same amount of limited free will, whichever way, I can choose to put suger in my coffee, but I cannot choose to save myself.
7. Is it impossible for God to be able to both foreknow and predestine just because we think it is impossible?
Bible is the word on this, it appears as salvation is predestinated and God chooses when to elect and sanctify.
8. Does God need to conform to our understanding of Biblical concepts or to His?
It just whats written, scripture is the final word.
9. Do humans try to hold God to their understanding of the Bible?
10. Does God look a lot like the God humans can wrap their mind around, or does He look like God?
No one has seen God, last time God spoke from on high He said "Hear Ye Him", listen to Jesus Christ, isn't that enough, I mean He gave His life, A divine sinless Son of God comes down to this rotten sinful earth and gets abused, tortured and crucified on a cross, is that not enough? Is His holy blood, given freely for all sin, not enough? Like how much do people want? Is their something more people would like thrown into the deal? Eternal life, the resurrection, forgiveness of all sin, and there is nothing required but the faith of a child, just a simple belief of the heart and a few words of confession, and that's all....And that's not enough, people want to reject, God, reject the only begotten Son of the Lord of the Universe, saves all of mankind defeats all the devils and Satan himself, conquers death and the grave, and that's not enough, people want some more free-will, some more independence from God? Well no thanks, not me, I've seen where independence and all the free will and the world gets you, and i dont want it, Im gonna listen to Jesus Christ just like the Lord said, and I don't need any free will for that because the lord Jesus has bought me anyway, and did not do a single thing, nothing, I had nothing to offer and still dont, no will on my part whatsoever, all the Lord's work, Praise the Lord for that, Amen.
