The POWER to choose God?

 

In this video, Sean McDowell makes it seem like men are "FREE" to choose God and that God wants humanity to be "FREE" to choose or not choose Him.   (some sort of fairness we're pursuing here)

But why does he or anyone think that human freedom is so much a part of God's interest?   This sounds more like something MAN is concerned about - not God!

After all, men can't be FREE in any way EVEN if they don't "choose" God because as the Bible teaches,  we're all "SLAVES TO SIN".  

"What does it profit you to gain the whole world, yet lose your own soul" -  Mark 8:36

Free from God but slaves to eternal death?   How much is that "freedom" worth in God's eyes?

So perhaps God isn't too concerned about man's freedom to deny Him as much as some people believe.

Especially since the call to come... is a COMMAND not a suggestion.

(Acts 17:30)

Do we have the power to CHOOSE God... as in, come to salvation... as in, seal ourselves with the Holy Spirit?... 

That is what it means to BE SAVED or "BORN AGAIN".  The "New Birth"; REGENERATION... RESURRECTION.   

Those of us who say we can CHOOSE our salvation... are we remembering that salvation involves all of the above?

So do we still think our salvation is something that WE do?

What is OUR PART in that experience?   Are we 10% active in that regeneration or 50%? ... 

All we know is that we must obey, respond, come forward, do the right thing; repent, change, grow in The Lord, etc., etc.

We are in that walk in REAL TIME but God has already fashioned the road of that walk in the eternal.

(Ephesians 2:10)

So do we have FREE WILL?

Yes, I exercise it every day for breakfast...  Eggs or oatmeal?

But REGENERATION?... SPIRITUAL RESURRECTION?  Is a bit above OUR paygrade - wouldn't you say?

With regard to salvation, it's us in the now but only because of what God had already decreed for us from before the foundation of the world.

Listen to my video above and tell me what you think.

:)

Grace, Joy and Peace!

Movie night!: Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (full movie)

Ben Stein's "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed" is a movie about the freedom of speech suppression to which Intelligent Design proponents are being subjected to by the atheistic American academic dictatorship.

“With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated; and those that survive commonly exhibit a vigorous state of health. We civilised men, on the other hand, do our utmost to check the process of elimination; we build asylums for the imbecile, the maimed, and the sick; we institute poor-laws; and our medical men exert their utmost skill to save the life of every one to the last moment. There is reason to believe that vaccination has preserved thousands, who from a weak constitution would formerly have succumbed to small-pox. Thus the weak members of civilised societies propagate their kind. No one who has attended to the breeding of domestic animals will doubt that this must be highly injurious to the race of man. It is surprising how soon a want of care, or care wrongly directed, leads to the degeneration of a domestic race; but excepting in the case of man himself, hardly any one is so ignorant as to allow his worst animals to breed.

The aid which we feel impelled to give to the helpless is mainly an incidental result of the instinct of sympathy, which was originally acquired as part of the social instincts, but subsequently rendered, in the manner previously indicated, more tender and more widely diffused. Nor could we check our sympathy, if so urged by hard reason, without deterioration in the noblest part of our nature. The surgeon may harden himself whilst performing an operation, for he knows that he is acting for the good of his patient; but if we were intentionally to neglect the weak and helpless, it could only be for a contingent benefit, with a certain and great present evil. Hence we must bear without complaining the undoubtedly bad effects of the weak surviving and propagating their kind; but there appears to be at least one check in steady action, namely the weaker and inferior members of society not marrying so freely as the sound; and this check might be indefinitely increased, though this is more to be hoped for than expected, by the weak in body or mind refraining from marriage.”

― Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man (1871)

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"For as he thinks within himself, so he is..."

- Proverbs 23:7

Should We Regulate Homeschooling?

The NPR podcast title is "How should we regulate Homeschooling"?  ... And there's so much wrong with that title.  

It demonstrates what Conservatives and Constitutionalists everywhere have called attention to regarding government control.   

Outrageously, the podcast was from the very start, shining a negative or should I say, a treacherous light on Homeschooling.  The podcast begins with a shaky-voiced mother who gives her experience as a Home-school mom.  She tells of a traumatizing story of being brought up in a fundamentalist religious background where her parents home-schooled her, and led her to believe that public school was such a terrible thing.  The podcast leans deep and hard against the rights and privacy of parents to home-school their own children, and the movement to start shedding negativity against parental rights and home-schooling is on the move.  This is how it starts, via negative propaganda.   "Big Brother" is still around, and he's alive and well!

Despite all evidence on how home-schooling overly benefits our children's intellectual needs over our failing government schools, still, the move to point to atrocities of individual cases, are being put upfront in the media to scare the public against Homeschooling.     

Government is seeing the growing trend of Homeschooling, and they're moving against it.  Power-hungry tyrants own this playbook, and they've used it over and over again in history.  

"Let me control the textbooks, and I will control the state" - Adolf Hitler