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Re: Temptation & Free Will [Re: HobbieTrapper] #7542732
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Temptation was even a part of Christ's life. I believe it is a necessary part of mortality. I also believe we all sin and make mistakes. Why else the principle of repentence and the atonement. The ability to learn to overcome temptation, and to learn to make correct choices in our life are the things that shape us and define the person we will become. Just my view.

Re: Temptation & Free Will [Re: HobbieTrapper] #7542768
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Originally Posted by HobbieTrapper
So did Eve have free will before being tempted or did temptation bring the free will?


I'm pretty sure Adam and Eve had a free will before being tempted.

This is something I've been thinking and wondering about for years. I doubt I'll ever have the answer fully resolved in my mind.

C.S. Lewis wrote that it is intrinsically impossible to create two sentient beings, one of which has a free will, without having the possibility of a conflict of wills. At some point, there is the possibility for being "A" to will something opposed to being "B". Of course, he explains it much better. So, when God created mankind with a free and independent will, the creative act necessarily brought with it the intrinsic possibility of eventual sin - a falling short of complete conformance to God's will. Thus, it was intrinsically impossible for God to create a world with free-willed creatures without the possiblity of pain and conflict. That all make sense to me. (When we say that God is omnipotent and can do all things, we mean that he can do all his holy will - not that he can do what is intrinsically impossible.)

But eventually, when we are glorified with our Savior Christ Jesus, we expect God's redeemed people to be fully sanctified and free of our sin nature . If we are to be without sin in that glorified state (and we are told we will be), then I believe we will lose the free will we have now. I believe when we are in that glorified state, every thought will be brought into "captivity" to the obedience of Christ. In that condition we must no longer have the ability to desire and will in opposition to God's will. That might seem like a loss - a reduction of our status - to lose our freedom and ability to oppose God. But it's probably not. I long to live in a condition where all my being agrees with God and I do not, and cannot, oppose him in any way. I'd rather be a slave and captive of Christ than have my own freedom to exalt myself against him.

I don't know. I think you've asked some VERY deep questions that are REALLY hard to answer. I hope you have better luck finding an answer than I have.

Some people just shrug their shoulders and say, " oh well... we'll never be able to understand - we are just finite humans and can't understand the mind of God - so why even try?" But for me... when you really love someone, you desire to explore, examine, wonder about, and seek to know every detail of the beloved. If you stop trying to learn about, know and grow in understanding of someone, I wonder how much you really love them.


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Re: Temptation & Free Will [Re: HobbieTrapper] #7542775
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Where do Adam and Eve fit into Neanderthal DNA? What about Denisovan? Were they the "others" that Cain had to go live with?


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Re: Temptation & Free Will [Re: HobbieTrapper] #7542778
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There must be more to this question than I am seeing on the surface. Seems very easy to me, I have a free will and I am tempted.

Same with everyone else reading this.

Re: Temptation & Free Will [Re: HobbieTrapper] #7542807
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Originally Posted by HobbieTrapper
Can we have free will without temptation?


Isn't the question backwards?
Can we have temptation without having free will?
I don't see how. If the will has no freedom, we are just automatons.


Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before.
Re: Temptation & Free Will [Re: HobbieTrapper] #7542809
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Originally Posted by HobbieTrapper
Originally Posted by Bruce T
Then no we would not need free will with no temptation but there will always be temptation.


So did Eve have free will before being tempted or did temptation bring the free will?

Well, Adam was allowed to do a lot of things like naming the animals that would seem to require free will, so I think they always had it, but this was perhaps the first time they had a choice that could lead them in a wrong direction.


Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before.
Re: Temptation & Free Will [Re: HobbieTrapper] #7542818
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Originally Posted by HobbieTrapper
Originally Posted by Bruce T
Then no we would not need free will with no temptation but there will always be temptation.


So did Eve have free will before being tempted or did temptation bring the free will?


I believe she had free will before because God told her not to eat the apple and bring free willed she did.

Free will is the ability to make choices otherwise we would be robots!



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Re: Temptation & Free Will [Re: HobbieTrapper] #7542830
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I like what you are saying Kart29, the psalmist said “as a deer panting for water, so my soul longs for You,” we are searching and seeking to know God better, being humbled the entire way, by the vastness and grandness of His glory and grace.

That’s what I like so much about these discussions on Trapperman, these questions should push us into Gods word searching for answers and what a good place to be pushed! And as is often the case we may come away without the answer to our questions as clear cut as we’d like, but still closer to God, which is right where I want to be.

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Re: Temptation & Free Will [Re: HobbieTrapper] #7542831
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Free will does not mean free from God. The new moral libs pretend God don't exist. Free is another trigger word (as in free money in the mail box). Newton only reasoned what gravity is, he never created it.

Kids are free to chase a ball, just not into a busy street. The devil is on the street going to and fro seeking ?.

Temptations come in many ways, sometimes by the eye when we are not even looking for it, we still have time to cut it off before it enters into mind and heart and before it conceives into sin.

We don't have the luxury of Flip Wilson's "The Devil Made Me Do It".

Re: Temptation & Free Will [Re: HobbieTrapper] #7542858
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Without free will I don't think Eve could of sinned

Re: Temptation & Free Will [Re: HobbieTrapper] #7542862
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Originally Posted by HobbieTrapper
Can we have free will without temptation?


Temptation is everywhere, freewill gives us the ability to act on it.

Re: Temptation & Free Will [Re: Posco] #7542872
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Originally Posted by Posco
I remember well the morning I got saved thirty-some years ago. Sitting all by myself, 4:00 or 5:00 o'clock in the morning ready to give up all hope when God was finally merciful to me. I told God I'd never sin again, and I meant it. Bring on the uncircumcised Philistines! God knew I meant it, but He also knew better. I had a mountaintop experience for a while and I basked in it but I couldn't stay there. That was that blush of first love. It eventually becomes trench warfare with the world, the flesh and the Devil.

Any of you guys think being a Christian is for sissies looking for a crutch, I say join the battle and get back to me. You're in for the fight of your life. As believers we have free will and it's constantly tested.

Amen to that


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Re: Temptation & Free Will [Re: HobbieTrapper] #7542907
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In Romans Chapter 7, verses 14-25, Paul is saying it's not normal for the flesh to do good, we have to force it. A good example of free will versus temptation, IMO.


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Re: Temptation & Free Will [Re: HobbieTrapper] #7542917
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Good conversation as believers should always have.
Faith seeking understanding as St. Augustine called it.

According to Scripture, God revealed the 1st truth of good and evil to Adam in the Garden, so Adam and Eve both knew good from evil, made their choices and the rest as God says, is history.

The LORD God commanded the man, saying, “From any tree of the garden you may eat freely;
but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it you will surely die
(Gen 2:16–17).

The best part is that by Revelation, we now know all this.

Blessings,
Mark

Re: Temptation & Free Will [Re: ] #7542921
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Originally Posted by Mark June
Good conversation as believers should always have.
Faith seeking understanding as St. Augustine called it.

According to Scripture, God revealed the 1st truth of good and evil to Adam in the Garden, so Adam and Eve both knew good from evil, made their choices and the rest as God says, is history.

The LORD God commanded the man, saying, “From any tree of the garden you may eat freely;
but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it you will surely die
(Gen 2:16–17).

The best part is that by Revelation, we now know all this.

Blessings,
Mark


That sounds like the tree IS the knowledge of good and evil. How did they know good and evil before?


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Re: Temptation & Free Will [Re: HobbieTrapper] #7542922
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There's alot of believers that avoid discussions because the hard core forgot how to converse with everyday people.

Posting paragraphs of scripture is great for reference, but plain talk is needed also.

Re: Temptation & Free Will [Re: HobbieTrapper] #7542933
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If they knew good and evil before what was the real purpose of Eve being tempted?


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Re: Temptation & Free Will [Re: HobbieTrapper] #7542942
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Anyone know how long Eve was alive before Adam and Eve ate the fruit from the tree? It seems like she was made and the next day or atleast pretty quick they ate the fruit and that was it.
They didn’t even have kids yet.

How long did Adam live before God took his rib and made Eve?


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Originally Posted by Jurassic Park
Anyone know how long Eve was alive before Adam and Eve ate the fruit from the tree? It seems like she was made and the next day or atleast pretty quick they ate the fruit and that was it.
They didn’t even have kids yet.

How long did Adam live before God took his rib and made Eve?



He was there long enough to name a lot of animals.


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