Morning At Last

The following is a repost that a friend of mine made in a forum we both visit.  I don’t necessarily agree with everything he says but I think it’s something we should all take a look at. When I realized that God really is sovereign, it threw things like self will or free will into a tizzy.  How could both of them be true?  Craig takes a crack at it and comes up with a pretty interesting answer.

When the Lord revealed Universal Salvation, I concluded that free-will was a joke, but upon further investigation, it was not free-will but the doctrine of self-determination which was the joke.

Free-Will says we can live and move and have our being within a boundary and habitation in which it is placed, but Self-Determination says we can go beyond that boundary and habitation in which we’re placed. One is true, the other is not. We cannot self-determine, no matter what we choose, we do it always within the habitation and boundary that God has placed us.

Why would this be an important distinction? It all comes down to judgment (God’s Judgement). If we had no free-will, then there is no such thing as sin. If we had no free-will, then God cannot judge us, nor can he ‘repay’ or ‘recompense’, as Scripture says He does.

From that point, the only thing a person can do is disregard Scripture and then finally they disregard anything to with Christ, Christianity. and you are left with a pantheistic belief system, that strips God of His Fatherhood, and makes Him once again some out of reach, impersonal ‘higher power’. and numerous of other slippery slopes that are very much valid.

You remove freedom of will, you remove the need to renew our minds, forgive one another, even love one another. Without freedom of will, there is no accountability and responsibility. A seered conscience, not knowing the difference between good and evil, infants being thrown to and fro by every wind of doctrine that tickles their ears, and the latest fad in pyschological philosophy.

Everyone reserves the right to be wrong, but I do not settle for being wrong when the Lord has said we can know what is right, and if we ask for Wisdom, He gives it lavishlessly.

Craig Nolin