Predestination is misunderstood...

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Genez

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You need to give me the verse that says He is. Otherwise, He isn't.
Look up the word fair. You will find it deals with equality. Are you saying God deals with everyone the same? Was God dealing equally with all people when He chose Israel and not all the other nations? Is God dealing equally placing one child in poverty in a third world nation and another into a wealthy family in the first world.
I'm not judging God as you and others have suggested. God is sovereign. He answers to no one.
It might be worthwhile to consider the blind man from birth whom Jesus healed. Jesus was asked why the man was born blind. Was it his sin or his parent's sin? The answer was neither, but he was born blind for the glory of God. God chose the blindness that He would be glorified. If God were fair, everyone must be born blind. If God is just, everyone must exist for His glory. Which one is true?
Book of Cameron....
"God is Unfair. "
 

PaulThomson

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I have no problem with desire being an element of will. But desire alone is not will.

I asked earlier for an example of something that God willed that did not come to pass. Can you share one?

The element of performance in will is in Daniel 4:35...He DOETH His will...

Paul a man. He cannot ensure his will will be performed.
I did.

Is. 5:1-7 God did all He could for Israel and Judah to produce justice, but they did not.

Luke 13:34 Jesus willed to gather Jerusalem like a hen gathers her chicks under her wings but they would not..
 

Cameron143

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Book of Cameron....
"God is Unfair. "
I've never said God is unfair. I said fairness isn't an attribute of God and then demonstrated it. But as discussion with you is no longer edifying, I'll bow out. Grace and peace.
 
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No, that is being created in His image. Being created in His likeness refers to our capacity as persons. People are created in both His image and his likeness.

26 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

It can speak of being created in His image only in the next verse as that is the creation of Adam's and Eve's soul which is invisible. But when we are fully fleshed out (no pun intended), we are created in His image and likeness.



No it isn't blocked, it is bound to sin. They are perfectly free to exercise their will and we know God allows them to do this because evil exists in this world.



Our bodies are made from the elements of the earth, not our souls (Gen:1:27), nor our spirits (Jn.3:6). Only God can destroy the soul because only God can create the soul.



No, it is our soul (if we are saved) that goes to heaven or Torment side of Sheol if unsaved. Or soul is the invisible essence of who we are. It is our soul that makes us human. It is the container of our personality and character.

Leviticus 17:11
For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood that makes atonement for the soul.’

The blood of the lamb saves our souls. We don't have spirits until we are saved and God's Spirit is omnipresent so is already in Heaven as well as here on Earth.



And again you don't know what you are talking about. The will is what enables us to express our desires. I can sit here and think all day long and never make a choice. That's quite often the problem with people who are indecisive, they over-think things instead of exercising their will because they are afraid of dealing with the consequences if they are wrong.

It is obvious you do no know what a will/volition is or how it works as many people here have told you, yet you continue to persist in your error. So be it. I won't be addressing any more of your posts. You have more than enough information from me and others to correct your mistakes.

Have a nice day.
Sir you have already told me to have a nice day.😊

No need to keep saying it. 😊

I can see where in disagreement but that's ok, I'm Not going to disrespect the God that you serve.

I do my best to always appreciate people are serving the correct God as me.

But listen sir,

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness:

First sentence

God said let us make man in our image.

Sir which part of this says let us make man in the same image as us.

And what is an image sir, in this case it's a picture sir.

Second sentence,.should then read and let us make them after our likeness to that picture.

This is what is going on with you.

You have a belief that is buried into your conscience, that is set in something you understood, in one direction.

This is what the conscience does sir.

It remembers something it understood more easily.

Sir God would not have referred to you as dust, if you had resemblance to God
 

Genez

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I've never said God is unfair. I said fairness isn't an attribute of God and then demonstrated it. But as discussion with you is no longer edifying, I'll bow out. Grace and peace.

Bowing out because you keep contradicting yourself.

Remember. This is not a private conversation. I do have witnesses.

You concept for the basis about the fairness of God was based upon human viewpoint.
 

Genez

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Sir you have already told me to have a nice day.😊

No need to keep saying it. 😊
That was based upon wishing you a Good Day. For the Day of Evaluation.
That's when all believers stand before the Lord... 1 Cor 3:11-15
When we are evaluated to see if our deeds were of God, or our own way of seeing things.

With that in mind?

Wishing you a good Day.
 

Magenta

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I've already explained previously. And as I don't believe reexplaining my position will make any difference, I'll bid you grace and peace.
Maybe some people think it was fair that Jesus died for their sins so they could be reconciled to God by grace (unmerited favor) .:unsure:
 

Cameron143

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Maybe some people think it was fair that Jesus died for their sins so they could be reconciled to God by grace (unmerited favor) .:unsure:
The difficulty for some is that they don't actually consider the definition nor can they apply the term to God because of the pejorative meaning they associate with unfairness.
I don't treat all my children equally. To do so could possibly bring harm. But I do try to deal with them all justly.
 
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That was based upon wishing you a Good Day. For the Day of Evaluation.
That's when all believers stand before the Lord...
When we are evaluated to see if our deeds were of God, or our own way of seeing things.

With that in mind?

Wishing you a good Day.
Let's discuss the word discussion, with the thought in mind we should both come to understand God, in the hope we can come to an agreement


So where talking about predestination and will.

Should we not be talking about God's will, before we can understand, How God determines anything, before we try to understand are own will.

Let us also understand man is under a curse, which is Gods will for man after we sought to have are own will,

This obviously declared that God does not like his will to be messed with.

It then should be obvious, that man before the fall had a will that had more freedom than it does now, before man was placed under a curse.

They where walking free in the garden.

They where free to choose,.

All of which was cut of.

Do ye understand this.
 

Magenta

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The difficulty for some is that they don't actually consider the definition nor can they
apply the term to God because of the pejorative meaning they associate with unfairness.
I wonder if Jesus thought it was fair. I mean, He all but begged God to find another way, sweating blood and everything.
 

Cameron143

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I wonder if Jesus thought it was fair. I mean, He all but begged God to find another way, sweating blood and everything.
I doubt the thought entered His mind. I'm more inclined to believe He was considering the joy set before Him.
 

Magenta

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I doubt the thought entered His mind. I'm more inclined to believe He was considering the joy set before Him.
More than once He petitioned God, to "take this cup from me."

Though, yes, He did submit His will to the Father's...
 

Cameron143

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More than once He petitioned God, to "take this cup from me."

Though, yes, He did submit His will to the Father's...
I don't deny that He appealed to the Father, but I don't think he was considering the fairness of it all, but the magnitude of it all. I base my previous comments on Hebrews 12:2.
 
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No, that is being created in His image. Being created in His likeness refers to our capacity as persons. People are created in both His image and his likeness.

26 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

It can speak of being created in His image only in the next verse as that is the creation of Adam's and Eve's soul which is invisible. But when we are fully fleshed out (no pun intended), we are created in His image and likeness.



No it isn't blocked, it is bound to sin. They are perfectly free to exercise their will and we know God allows them to do this because evil exists in this world.



Our bodies are made from the elements of the earth, not our souls (Gen:1:27), nor our spirits (Jn.3:6). Only God can destroy the soul because only God can create the soul.



No, it is our soul (if we are saved) that goes to heaven or Torment side of Sheol if unsaved. Or soul is the invisible essence of who we are. It is our soul that makes us human. It is the container of our personality and character.

Leviticus 17:11
For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood that makes atonement for the soul.’

The blood of the lamb saves our souls. We don't have spirits until we are saved and God's Spirit is omnipresent so is already in Heaven as well as here on Earth.



And again you don't know what you are talking about. The will is what enables us to express our desires. I can sit here and think all day long and never make a choice. That's quite often the problem with people who are indecisive, they over-think things instead of exercising their will because they are afraid of dealing with the consequences if they are wrong.

It is obvious you do no know what a will/volition is or how it works as many people here have told you, yet you continue to persist in your error. So be it. I won't be addressing any more of your posts. You have more than enough information from me and others to correct your mistakes.

Have a nice day.
When you try to understand your soul, it's also like trying to understand freewill.

On both cases you will make assumptions.

What we need is to discuss realistic reasoning on what we can clearly understand.

God formed man out of the dust and became a living soul from the dust.

This would also make the inner you a soul.

Well I can tell you the soul that sins is the soul that dies.

When Adam sinned he died.

Which means his soul also sinned.

Was it just his flesh that sinned sir.

So i don't want to make assumptions

Look

Genesis 2:7-9 King James Version (KJV)And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

Man became a living soul from the dust not from the elements of heaven sir

If anything sir it would be your conscience that goes to hell.























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PaulThomson

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I've already explained previously. And as I don't believe reexplaining my position will make any difference, I'll bid you grace and peace.
Why not analyse the texts in context and show how they prove your point rather than mine. Why do so many people fear reading texts in context and sticking to what they actually say rather than reading into them what their preferred systematic theologian told them they should interpret the text as meaning.