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Why make an effort to get saved if my life is pre destined by God?
Life here on Earth is a gift given to us by God. And whether or not you believe in free will, when we stand before our Maker at the end of our lives, we will be held accountable on how we decided to ...
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Why make an effort to get saved if my life is pre destined by God?
Ephesians 2:8-9 NIV
For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast.
It is impossible to "...
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Why make an effort to get saved if my life is pre destined by God?
If we develop simplicity, sincerity, humility, and purity then it helps us to develop inner peace, inner light, inner joy, and inner power.
Inner power is our obedience to the Will of God.
Our beliefs ...
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Why make an effort to get saved if my life is pre destined by God?
The problem here -- the belief that foreknowledge negates free will -- doesn't require God to be the foreknower, and doesn't even require a foreknower. Aristotle gives the first known mention of it. ...
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Why make an effort to get saved if my life is pre destined by God?
If you assume that God is bound by time, then either God cannot know whether we are saved, or we don't have free will in that matter.
If you drop the assumption, then God knows whether we have chosen ...
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Why make an effort to get saved if my life is pre destined by God?
The question as to who will be saved is for God to know the answer to, and for us to discover. But if we can't be bothered making any kind of effort or even attempt to sort out the question of ...
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Why make an effort to get saved if my life is pre destined by God?
God appoints the means as well as the result. If the result for you is to be in Heaven, God supplies everything needed to accomplish this. Ephesians 1:3-14 lists many of the separate steps that are ...
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Why make an effort to get saved if my life is pre destined by God?
Free will
God created a perfect world, yet gave Adam and Eve a way to reject him by accepting something that would remove their innocence. Why offer them a choice? Why not leave it perfect?
Because ...
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Why make an effort to get saved if my life is pre destined by God?
I look into Romans, and what I see, on the subject of Israel, is "God has not rejected his people, whom he foreknew" (Romans ch11 v2).
Moving back, Abraham the individual is saved by his ...
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Why make an effort to get saved if my life is pre destined by God?
Why make an 'effort' ?
Because he is God. Because he made me. Because he gave me the gift of an existence.
And the gift of a humanity ; of thought ; of feelings ; of abilities ; of mind ; of heart ; ...
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Why make an effort to get saved if my life is pre destined by God?
Say, for the sake of argument, that free will is definitely real.
Now, consider some arbitrary person (for convenience, we'll call him "John"). Let's say, also, that John was born in 1000 AD....
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