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Re: What Is The Point Of Free Will? by LordReed(m): 2:25pm On Dec 19, 2022
Steep:
you are being disingenuous, which "particular choice" I asked? You said any choice. This is an ambiguous answer.

Lolz quote where you asked which "particular choice".
Re: What Is The Point Of Free Will? by Dtruthspeaker: 2:45pm On Dec 19, 2022
Aemmyjah:


What am I saying and what are you saying?
You're ignoring the main thing
Freedom of choice

You are not giving God His Full Respect which is where all this liability issue commences from neither do you fully appreciate The First Good Gift He gave us, which is the Power of Life and Eternal Life even like a mannequin that lives forever while being aware of his environment.

Which upon due consideration, you find that you are no different from a non living mannequin of which your manufacturing processes reveal that you started that same way being unloving.

So take a second and remove all the evil are you not thankful that you are alive to experience what living is?

If you appreciate this, then you would see that this is where our responsibility/liability for ensuring our living also commences [b]which is that you are not permitted to Die!

WHICH IS THE FIRST LAW OVER MAN. Which is why God warned him to avoid the only thing in this box called world which could kill him, which is, that particular fruit EVEN SATAN COULD NOT KILL HIM.

Hence, complete and absolute obedience to that Law was the only and most important thing he needed to do to continue living, foreverly.
Re: What Is The Point Of Free Will? by Dtruthspeaker: 3:04pm On Dec 19, 2022
Creations are only free as the Extent/Limitation their Creator has given them.

Jokerman:
Freewill is an illusion.

No freewill, you'd either end in the lake of fire, or be with Jesus at the new earth and heaven, after this life choices.
Re: What Is The Point Of Free Will? by Dtruthspeaker: 3:11pm On Dec 19, 2022
TenQ:

When the manufacturer creates the laptop computer, does he load it with virus?
OR
Virus get into the computer because the USER connected an unverified software source accessing the computer?

If he wanted to, nothing stops him.
Re: What Is The Point Of Free Will? by TenQ: 3:13pm On Dec 19, 2022
Dtruthspeaker:


If he wanted to, nothing stops him.
But God wanted to CREATE a free Man.

It was the PURPOSE for Creation in the first place!
Re: What Is The Point Of Free Will? by Dtruthspeaker: 3:17pm On Dec 19, 2022
hayoholla:


grin. Incorrect bro. If there's no such thing as a computer "system", how will a computer virus exist grin. Try harder next time.

That is the power of a creator. This is a chicken and egg scenario.

A maker can create a computer virus first before making the computer or create the computer first before making the virus. But which came first, only the creator or creators can tell us.

But your answer was a change of post o for he did not ask whether a computer was made before or after the virus.
Re: What Is The Point Of Free Will? by Dtruthspeaker: 3:21pm On Dec 19, 2022
TenQ:

But God wanted to CREATE a free Man.

It was the PURPOSE for Creation in the first place!

You are right.

I am just trying to raise up the awareness that the opposite option is also there.
Re: What Is The Point Of Free Will? by Steep(m): 3:21pm On Dec 19, 2022
kingxsamz:

Lol, no.
For one to be perfect, that person cannot be prone to having flaws.
you don't get to decide what is perfect or not so long you are not the designer neither do you even know the purpose why it was made.


So why all the mess then? Even a human being would have done better. From being omniscient to putting a dangerous tree in the same garden you intend your creation to inhabit forever, to being omnipotent, yet, still unable to stop Satan, to the point that you had to drown the entire world and send your son to die. And in the end nothing changed.
you are silly, why would you make a car to move on land and still prevent it from moving?
Why should God prevent man from exercising his freewill. The presence of Satan in the garden presents man with the opportunity to show where his loyalty lies.


Whoever created the tree of life and allowed Satan the serpent to have access to the garden where two inexperienced adults were supposed to live is definitely responsible for everything.
And please address the "robber analogy" I gave.
Your robber analogy makes no sense, nobody is putting a gun on your head.
Re: What Is The Point Of Free Will? by Dtruthspeaker: 3:23pm On Dec 19, 2022
kingxsamz:


Lol, okay.
So someone goes to heaven, do they have the freewill to assault somebody?

See devil! It is always a bad thing that must come out from your mouth
Re: What Is The Point Of Free Will? by Steep(m): 3:24pm On Dec 19, 2022
LordReed:


Lolz quote where you asked which "particular choice".
I asked "which choice", instead of playing hide and seek why don't you answer it.
Re: What Is The Point Of Free Will? by Dtruthspeaker: 3:30pm On Dec 19, 2022
kingxsamz:


This was what the OP asked and you people mentioned freewill.

Now, I asked if there's freewill in heaven and you guys said yes, meanwhile, you claim one cannot commit sin in heaven.
So this only brings us back to the OP's question. Why would your "good god" create creatures who have potentials to commit sin?
Why didn't he just make them incapable of sin just as it is in heaven?

The op did not ask about heaven.
Re: What Is The Point Of Free Will? by Dtruthspeaker: 3:33pm On Dec 19, 2022
LordReed:


So why didn't the god just create such people in the first place?

Who told you He does not have such people in the first place?

And now He is doing a different thing. Promotion and demotion things which ever apply
Re: What Is The Point Of Free Will? by LordReed(m): 3:43pm On Dec 19, 2022
Dtruthspeaker:


Who told you He does not have such people in the first place?

And now He is doing a different thing. Promotion and demotion things which ever apply

Where are such people?
Re: What Is The Point Of Free Will? by LordReed(m): 3:47pm On Dec 19, 2022
Steep:
I asked "which choice", instead of playing hide and seek why don't you answer it.

LoLz. you are the one playing hide and seek. You asked:
Steep:
make a choice about what?
Does this look like you asked, "which choice"?

And still you haven't answered the simple question, will these transformed have the ability make a choice in the heaven?
Re: What Is The Point Of Free Will? by Steep(m): 3:53pm On Dec 19, 2022
LordReed:


LoLz. you are the one playing hide and seek. You asked:

Does this look like you asked, "which choice"?

And still you haven't answered the simple question, will these transformed have the ability make a choice in the heaven?
yes They can make a choice but not choices like before. In the new creation the order of things would be different.

Revelation 21:5 And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.
Re: What Is The Point Of Free Will? by Dtruthspeaker: 3:57pm On Dec 19, 2022
LordReed:


Where are such people?

Any where God kept them to be.
Re: What Is The Point Of Free Will? by Aemmyjah(m): 4:18pm On Dec 19, 2022
Dtruthspeaker:


You don't know God! grin You thought He was joking when He Said nothing is impossible with Him. It's there in the Bible



And you are doing what your Maker (God) Programmed you to do just as your robots are doing what you programmed them to do.

Robots and mannequins are your own toys, you, plants and animals are God's Own toys.


Lol
If you are a toy in God's eyes, na your own problem
If you think you are in the same class as animals and plants, it is your own problem

As for me, like the psalmist, I say 'What is man...'
He has made us a little lower than the Angels
He made me in his own image
He sent his son to die for me
He gives me life and every good thing
He's done good for me, doing good for me and in the future, great things he'll do.
We don't do wonderful things for toys or anything we invent
We can show our love for him
We can pray and worship him
We can draw close to him

God did not program Man to demonstrate obedience and loyalty like ROBOTS
Re: What Is The Point Of Free Will? by Aemmyjah(m): 4:20pm On Dec 19, 2022
Dtruthspeaker:


Haba! Don't deny The Truth because you do not want to accept it.

You saw and we all see that they became evil and proved they were evil by doing evil ONLY AFTER THE FRUIT HAD BEEN EATEN?

You do not aaccuse your wife of pregnancy and cheating until AFTER she must have had sex with another man.


It was greed that motivated the woman to eat
It was not greed that motivated the man but cos he loved his wife more than Jehovah
Who planted the greed in the woman? It was Satan
That is when evil began. Jesus describe him as a manslayer and he did not stand fast in the Truth
Re: What Is The Point Of Free Will? by Aemmyjah(m): 4:21pm On Dec 19, 2022
kingxsamz:


Lol, I'm still waiting for your answer to my question.
Also, you can't be perfect and still make mistakes.

Lol
No human tody is perfect
Sorry I must have skipped that
What was your question I didn't answer?
Re: What Is The Point Of Free Will? by Aemmyjah(m): 4:23pm On Dec 19, 2022
Dtruthspeaker:


The other day you told those atheists that you and animals specifically monkeys are the same save the software of talking.

And guess what, just as you are liable for your choices, they too have the same liability.

Also, remember, even the stones talk.

Just as you have your dumb mannequins and talking mannequins, so also are you a toy to your Maker!

You are still a toy irrespective of whether you are self operating robot or mascot.

A toy is always manipulated to do the will of his Master whether good or man
If what you're saying is true, then God is to blame for all badness but you're wrong cos man is fully responsible for all his actions and he will reap what he sow, not his Maker
Re: What Is The Point Of Free Will? by kingxsamz(m): 4:28pm On Dec 19, 2022
Dtruthspeaker:


See devil! It is always a bad thing that must come out from your mouth
Lol, madman don come. grin
Re: What Is The Point Of Free Will? by Aemmyjah(m): 4:33pm On Dec 19, 2022
Dtruthspeaker:


That is the power of a creator. This is a chicken and egg scenario.

A maker can create a computer virus first before making the computer or create the computer first before making the virus. But which came first, only the creator or creators can tell us.

But your answer was a change of post o for he did not ask whether a computer was made before or after the virus.

Gee
Chop knuckle first
As I de hail u so
I just de wait for me and you to meet

According to your illustration, it was God that made the virus called sin right?
Re: What Is The Point Of Free Will? by LordReed(m): 4:35pm On Dec 19, 2022
Dtruthspeaker:


Any where God kept them to be.

And where is that?
Re: What Is The Point Of Free Will? by LordReed(m): 4:40pm On Dec 19, 2022
Steep:
yes They can make a choice but not choices like before. In the new creation the order of things would be different.

Revelation 21:5 And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.

"not choices like before" what does this mean?
Re: What Is The Point Of Free Will? by kingxsamz(m): 4:40pm On Dec 19, 2022
Steep:
you don't get to decide what is perfect or not so long you are not the designer neither do you even know the purpose why it was made.
So was it your god's plan to make things go the way they did? smiley
I mean, if he's a perfect being, everything would work according to his plan and he won't regret creating humans only to wipe them off without taking out the main source of the problem. That's imperfection. Buhari would have done better.

you are silly, why would you make a car to move on land and still prevent it from moving?
Why should God prevent man from exercising his freewill. The presence of Satan in the garden presents man with the opportunity to show where his loyalty lies.
Making a car move on land is different from putting your child on the highway to see if it gets hit by a car. grin
On top of that you're omniscient and know how to prevent Bleep ups.
If you see nothing wrong with your god putting Adam and Eve in the same place with Satan and that evil tree, then you shouldn't have a problem keeping a loaded gun in the midst of your children. smiley


Your robber analogy makes no sense, nobody is putting a gun on your head.
It makes no sense or you have no better counter to it? Imao. grin
It's just an analogy, which actually happens in real life.
Re: What Is The Point Of Free Will? by Steep(m): 5:21pm On Dec 19, 2022
LordReed:


"not choices like before" what does this mean?
It means things would be different.
Re: What Is The Point Of Free Will? by LordReed(m): 5:36pm On Dec 19, 2022
Steep:
It means things would be different.

Then it doesn't matter, the god could have done all that at the beginning.
Re: What Is The Point Of Free Will? by Steep(m): 6:04pm On Dec 19, 2022
LordReed:


Then it doesn't matter, the god could have done all that at the beginning.
you are going round in circles again. When you go through school you start from the first level right? After finishing the whole level do you still repeat the process again? Or you can as well ask why not walk into the university and collect a BSc certificate from the beginning instead of going through thus whole process.

The Sons of God are going through a process, once the process is complete, everything would be changed.
Re: What Is The Point Of Free Will? by LordReed(m): 6:17pm On Dec 19, 2022
Steep:
you are going round in circles again. When you go through school you start from the first level right? After finishing the whole level do you still repeat the process again? Or you can as well ask why not walk into the university and collect a BSc certificate from the beginning instead of going through thus whole process.

The Sons of God are going through a process, once the process is complete, everything would be changed.

LoLz! The process of billions of people enduring suffering over the course of thousands of years? Is that the process you are referring to?
Re: What Is The Point Of Free Will? by Dtruthspeaker: 7:08pm On Dec 19, 2022
LordReed:


And where is that?

Anywhere!
Re: What Is The Point Of Free Will? by Dtruthspeaker: 7:10pm On Dec 19, 2022
Aemmyjah:


Gee
Chop knuckle first
As I de hail u so
I just de wait for me and you to meet

grin

Aemmyjah:

According to your illustration, it was God that made the virus called sin right?

Not sin! Evil.
Re: What Is The Point Of Free Will? by Dtruthspeaker: 7:15pm On Dec 19, 2022
Aemmyjah:

A toy is always manipulated to do the will of his Master whether good or man.

So also can God control you to do His Will.

Aemmyjah:

If what you're saying is true, then God is to blame for all badness but you're wrong cos man is fully responsible for all his actions and he will reap what he sow, not his Maker

It is True neither are you to blame when your mannequin against your express and implied commands, goes about killing other mannequins and burning their houses, even burning the House you gave them to live in.

That is what is called "Strict Liability".

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