I have never said man does not have a choice. Man chooses out of their nature. The natural
man is evil. Scripture says so and people scream about it and say man is not that bad.
The natural man is a slave to sin, blinded by the god of this world.
I do not agree that people are forced, try being honest.
man is evil. Scripture says so and people scream about it and say man is not that bad.
The natural man is a slave to sin, blinded by the god of this world.
I do not agree that people are forced, try being honest.
DT 30:19, “This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live.”
MT 23:37, “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing.”
JN 3:16, “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”
1TM 2:3b-4, “God our Savior wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth.”
Thus, those who choose death, curses, not to be gathered, not to believe in Jesus, and not learn the Gospel truth and be saved are accountable for that choice and will reap the just consequence for their evil in hell. This view harmonizes God's all-lovingness with His omnipotence, which yours does not--beginning with a false choice between death and curses.