Free Will's Requiem

 
Free will is a human concept the purports that God gave mankind a free and unencumbered will upon his creation.  The teaching claims that man has the capacity to FREELY choose.  I have proved the preposterousness of this heresy in many of my writings, and I wish to further show the error of this concept.

Consider the Jews.  These were a people chosen by God out of many nations.  They were given a covenant that was not given to ANY other nation.  It is important to realize this, because the covenant that the Jews had was between them and God.  It was not OPEN to any of the other nations. The covenant outlined a list of things that God was requiring of them.  Embedded in this list was a plethora of promises and a host of curses.  In order for the Jews to experience UTOPIA all they needed to do was OBEY THE LAW.  Do you understand this?  This is key to revealing the error of free will.  The Jews only needed to obey the words of the covenant and their lives would have been HEAVEN ON EARTH. All their physical needs would have been met and they would have wanted for NOTHING.  Why did the Jews NOT exercise their supposed FREE WILL to access this option?  It is because their will was NOT free!  And I thank God that they DID NOT OBEY; you will agree in a bit!

EVERY man born into the world is a SLAVE!  A slave has NO ability to exercise his own will but by nature is UNDER the will of another.  We are not born free but rather we are born slaves to sin:

Psalms 51:5
Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity,And in sin my mother conceived me.

Psalms 58:3
The wicked are estranged from the womb; These who speak lies go astray from birth.

Genesis 8:21b
“I will never again curse the ground on account of man, for the intent of man’s heart is EVIL FROM HIS YOUTH; and I will never again destroy every living thing, as I have done.

The  Jews were no different from you or me.  The day before the received the covenant they were slaves to sin and the day after they received the covenant the were STILL slaves to sin!  The covenant DID NOT CORRECT THEIR SINFUL DISPOSITION.  But this is all besides the point because if mankind, inclusive of the Jews, had the capacity to choose freely then why do they ALL invariably choose darkness rather than light.

Consider what would have happened if the Jews had chosen by their supposed free will to OBEY God.  What would that mean for you GENTILES that were NOT God's chosen people:

Hebrews 8:7
For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion sought for a second.

DID YOU READ THAT???  If the the Jews had somehow been able to exercise their 'free' will and had chosen to obey God the scripture says that 'THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN NO OCCASION SOUGHT FOR A SECOND' covenant. Where would that lead us who were not of the physical lineage of Abraham?  We would to this day be HOPELESS.  This was all part of God's plan because we read in the very next verse:

Hebrews 8:8
For finding fault with them, He says,“ Behold, days are coming, says the Lord, When I will effect A new covenant With the house of Israel and with the house of Judah;

In which way did God find fault with THEM (the Jews)?  It was in their INABILITY to keep the covenant.  They had NO capacity to obey the Law because they were SLAVES to sin. It was THIS that made the second covenant necessary.

Okay now we have a New Covenant, but can we choose by some free will to obey God even in this new covenant?

Philippians 2:13
For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

It is God that is doing the willing in you AND the doing.  This is the reason why the Israelites were UNABLE to obey the law.  God was NOT in them.  The Law was an EXTERNAL stimuli that had NO POWER of the internal condition of mankind which was INCLINED to sin.  Now that we are in a new covenant does he now tell us to use OUR FREE WILL to live rightly? The new covenant has God now working IN us both to will and to do his good pleasure.  What is this good pleasure:

Jude 1:24
Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy,

His good pleasure is to make us stand in the presence of his glory.  What is required for this to happen? We MUST keep from stumbling AND be blameless. But consider, WHO IS IT THAT KEEPS YOU FROM STUMBLING? God, NOT free will.  Well can our free will cause us to stand blamelessly?  Of course not:

1 Thessalonians 5:23-24
Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you entirely; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved complete, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 

It is GOD who does the sanctifying, NOT OUR FREE WILL!!!  He confirms this in the VERY next verse:

...Faithful is He who calls you, and He also will bring it to pass.

Listen to this. IT IS GOD WHO BRINGS IT TO PASS NOT US OR A MYTHICAL FREE WILL!!!!

So, since we can't even use free will to freely will ourselves to NOT sin what good is it to lay claim to this BLASPHEMOUS and DEMONIC concept? We do well to heed this warning:

Colossians 2:8
See to it that no one takes you captive through PHILOSOPHY and empty deception, according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary principles of the world, RATHER than according to Christ.