Can We Really Exercise Free Will?

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I believe brightfame52 relies heavily on AI.

AI is deceiving people and it will get much much worse with satan inside

AI should not replace the sound mind given by God

That's exactly what is happening is people are and will be ditching the Lord to follow AI.
AI is the new serpent. People are and will be believing anything AI tells them to believe.
 
Yeah all the people acting ugly will achieve even high levels of ugliness using AI
Time will tell I guess, but ai is set to really advance soon, so we will have to see what happens, but I wouldn't listen to all the critics just yet, so many people on YouTube make a living from stories that scare people.
 
Time will tell I guess, but ai is set to really advance soon, so we will have to see what happens, but I wouldn't listen to all the critics just yet, so many people on YouTube make a living from stories that scare people.

We've already seen how several of the big AI companies cannot even control their own AI
It will end badly. You can count on that.

But we are at the end of this age when things go very horribly wrong on earth and billions die so the arrive of AI coincides with the times in which we live.
 
JimiSurvivor,

your attempt to flatten the text of 2 Peter completely ignores the explicit behavioral and ontological distinctions that Peter himself builds into the fabric of this epistle. You claim that reading an ontological difference between the true believers of Chapter 1 and the apostates of Chapter 2 is "inventing an interpretation.
A. "I have provided more than adequate grammatical/linguistic proof that Peter's use of the term epignosis, is in line with the writings of other Apostles such as Paul, in that it indicates a superior kind of knowing than mere GNOSIS. By contrast, EPIGNOSIS, indicates a kind of knowing that if fully informed complete as well as personal and experiential. Therefore, it could hardly refer to the superficial details of Christ's life which His neighbors in Nazareth would have known yet you continue to deny this because it does not agree with your presuppositions.

B.
THAYERS GREEK LEXICON defines epignosis (ἐπίγνωσις) in the following way: precise and correct knowledge; used in the N. T. of the

(1). knowledge of things ethical and divine: absolutely, Philippians 1:9; Colossians 3:10; κατ' ἐπίγνωσιν, Romans 10:2;

(2). with the genitive of the
thing known, Colossians 1:9; Colossians 2:2; Philemon 1:6; τῆς ἀληθείας, 1 Timothy 2:4; 2 Timothy 2:25; 2 Timothy 3:7; Titus 1:1; Hebrews 10:26; τῆς ἁμαρτίας, Romans 3:20;

(3). with the genitive of the
person known; — of God, especially the knowledge of his holy will and of the blessings which he has bestowed and constantly bestows on men through Christ: Ephesians 1:17; Colossians 1:10; 2 Peter 1:2;

(4). of Christ Himself, i. e. the true knowledge of Christ's nature, dignity, benefits: Ephesians 4:13; 2 Peter 1:8; 2 Peter 2:20;

(5). of God and Christ: 2 Peter 1:2; Θεόν ἔχειν ἐν ἐπιγνώσει i. e. to keep the knowledge of the one true God which has illumined the soul, Romans 1:28. (Polybius, Plutarch, Herodian, (others); the Septuagint. occasionally for דַּעַת; 2 Macc. 9:11.)


C. The following is a list of passages in which the word epignosis is used to indicate EXPERIENTIAL acknowledgement

(1). Romans 1:28, “And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge through experience epignosis God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper.”

(2). Romans 3:20, “because by the works of the Law no flesh will be justified in His sight; for through the Law comes the acknowledgement (epignosis) of sin.”

(3). Romans 10:2, “For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not in accordance with an (experiential) knowledge (epignosis).” They had a kind of knowledge but not one that was an authentic self-realization of their sin

(4). Ephesians. 1:17, “that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a lifestyle of wisdom and of revelation by means of an experiential knowledge (epignosis) of Him.”

(5). Ephesians 4:13, “until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and an experiential knowledge (epignosis) of the Son of God into a mature man into the measure of the stature which belongs to the fulness of Christ.”

(6). Philippians 1:9, “Now, this I make it a habit to pray that your divine-love might continue to flourish yet more and more by means of a total discerning experiential knowledge (epignosis).”

(7). Colossians 1:9-10, “For this reason also, since the day we heard of it, we have not ceased to pray for you and to ask that you may be filled with an experiential knowledge (epignosis) of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, so that you may walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, to please Him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the accurate knowledge of God.”

(8). Colossians 2:2, “that their hearts may be encouraged, having been knit together by means of divine-love, and attaining to all the wealth that comes from the full assurance of understanding, resulting in an experiential knowledge (epignosis) of God's mystery, that is, Christ Himself.”

(9). Colossians 3:10, “and have put on the new self, the one being renewed for an experiential knowledge (epignosis) according to the image of the One who created him.”

(10). 1 Timothy 2:4, “who desires all men to be saved and to come to an experiential knowledge (epignosis) of the truth.”

(11). 2 Timothy 2:25, “with gentleness correcting those who are in opposition, if perhaps God may grant them a change of mind leading to an experiential knowledge (epignosis) of the truth.”

(12). Titus 3:7, “always learning and never able to come to an experiential knowledge (epignosis) of the truth.”

(13). Titus 1:1, “Paul, a bond-servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, for the faith of those chosen of God and an experiential knowledge (epignosis) of the truth which is according to spirituality.”

(14). Philemon 1:6, “and I pray that the fellowship of your faith may become effective through an experiential knowledge (epignosis) of every good thing which is in you for Christ's sake.”

(15). Hebrews 10:26, “For if we go on sinning willfully after receiving an experiential knowledge (epignosis) of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins.”

(16). Therefore, with the exception Romans 1:28 and 3:20, the noun epignosis means “experiential knowledge”, -not knowledge about the events and facts ABOUT JESUS life but KNOWING HIM

Epignosis is used many different adjuncts such as God, Christ, divine-love, truth, divine assets and provisions and the will of God.
To experience means, “to personally encounter, observe or undergo something through a process, to have knowledge or practical wisdom gained from what one has observed, encountered or undergone,” and implies being affected by what one meets.
 
You absolutely have the right to have the will of The Lord God Himself . It is spoken it is written it is by the Holy Spirit . I don't who can God's will God's will stay the same and our wills get will can't get persuaded moved Away . He want Then to abide in His Will .. we are not trapped or paid off to be in the will of God mostly this seems like a religious question I know which one it was that they used to come at me and the main point of theead was one they couldn't answer 30 years ago but they adapted and I don't know the tactic and don't care to know
 
You absolutely have the right to have the will of The Lord God Himself . It is spoken it is written it is by the Holy Spirit . I don't who can God's will God's will stay the same and our wills get will can't get persuaded moved Away . He want Then to abide in His Will .. we are not trapped or paid off to be in the will of God mostly this seems like a religious question I know which one it was that they used to come at me and the main point of theead was one they couldn't answer 30 years ago but they adapted and I don't know the tactic and don't care to know
A couple typos above figure it out can insted cant is one. But this is a treead question or somebody's dealing with one saved always saved . And and then you would not have free will . God has a will for us will you by nature water our way we got the Holy Spirit we always forget to use the Holy Spirit well I don't but that's what I see I suppose you won't know until . cant imagine anybody saying how did I get here w)jesus? because one stops trusting in the Lord and because at one time did trust in past then put where He wants back in His will, there was no longer the Will of Whowever.
 
Apologies, I really did not mean to misrepresent anything you said. I enjoy conversations having to do with being in union with Christ.

Is there a difference between faith and believe?
So if someone states that believing is a work are they not in essence a saying faith is a work.
Just wondering your thoughts about this slight of hand with the language?