Tags archives: Free Will

  • How Can Love Exist if We Don't Have The Free Will to Choose to Love? Hello, Can you please explain to me how love can exist if we have no free will? If God’s sovereignty means that we don’t choose, He is just loving Himself. But when we have a choice, our love for Him “means” something. Otherwise ... [read more]
  • Hi J___, I will go line by line through this letter and give God's Word and contrast God's Word with the carnal minded reasoning of your friend. Your friend, as I myself once did and all carnal minds do, fails to see the difference between the ability to choose based upon the causes he himself admit... [read more]
  • Mr. Vinson, I have a question that has been bothering me. What does the Bible mean when it says God "created darkness"? Some say that darkness does not "exist," that it's just the opposite of light. Others say that the Bible means God creates darkness because of "night" (i. e. because the Earth rota... [read more]
  • Hi Mike, I just read your post entitled "Are All Choices In Life Predestined By God?" and would like to comment. As is the case for most (all) people, when we come to see the sovereignty of God in the scriptures, it is a struggle to accept. I'm sure it took you some time too. I used to believe in to... [read more]
  • Hi Mike, I have a friend with whom I have been sharing God's truths. He has been reading the works of Ted Weiland and has asked my opinion of them. I have pointed out a few differences with scripture to A___. We disagree over the matter of free will. I have told him that "all choices in life are N... [read more]
  • Dear Mike, When studying one of your articles, I came across this phrase: "We cannot so much a commit a sin if it was not first written in God's book before we were ever born." Could you throw more light on this please? Does this mean that those who sin could not help but sin because it was already ... [read more]
  • Mike, A man asked me the question, "How can God make us accountable for our actions if we do not have free will?" I would appreciate your comments. J____ Hi J____, Thank you for your friend's question. He asks, "How can God make us accountable for our actions if we do not have free will?" God does... [read more]
  • Hey Mike, Just had a quick question about free will. How does: Php 2:12 Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. ... correlate with: Joh 15:5 I am the vine, ye [are] the br... [read more]
  • Hi, Mike I hope I'm not bothering you with too many questions, but this one I'm about to ask you may be the one I'm having most difficulty with. I recently read your letter to a reader regarding what it means to have your name blotted out of the book of the life of the Lamb. You made this particular... [read more]