We are not made like puppets, in that if we want to speak we need puppeteers, ventriloquists to make us talk. Neither like toys that we needed some hands to make us move. We are created in the image of God and it is his pleasure to give us the ability, that know how to think, to analyze, calculate, having wisdom, free choice, we don’t know the right one to choose, but that does not mean we don’t have free will.That is why we need the help of God and we pray for his guidance.
If we don’t have freewill, is there such a thing as sin, accountability, responsibility, need of repentance, how come? How about animals and plants, do they have free will? If you’re thinking and doing, is it not your thought, your doing, is your thinking limited?
Yes, if I want to go to the moon instantly and cannot, does that mean I don’t have free will or maybe because it is the way I was created physically. Superman can, by the way go to the moon but only for a limited time, he can’t breathe in space on his own, till he became fully solar man anyway. Is it not the exercise of your of free will or different or God put such thought in you and then it become yours.
Can we go now to church of Satan, it just knowledge. Maybe free to think and not to move or vice verse or free to move and think but dumb, idiot to know what’s truly right and wrong (another topic, I shall delve in to that ,if I have the ability to think and analyze it) or free to control his environment. When we do or write or speak or giving instruction, is it truly ours, or we are just inspire or guided or force to think that.
So, do we have free will? Well, if you make God as master director (and please quiet on the set, we’re filming a scene, this is a first take first scene only), no, we don’t. What kind of a god created those actors and actresses that he cannot control, who does he think he is ,Zeus or Odin…etc. And then gets punish for ages, just because they did not make the right choice, which is him. But when God creates a movie it has a happy end for all, not to mention top grosser. No more sin, repentance, mistakes, saints or wicked,for as the script goes, all will be purge,one sooner than the other,its all in the script.Though I don't think God will let some read it for now
But oh, if God were a masterbuilder, maker, he will make beings, not like angels, he already done that. But mortals, who can think for themselves, have intelligence, being chosen from the foundation of the world to be with him, but still needs guidance, to make the right choices.Having penalties for disobedience and grace for the willingness. after all, all our righteousness are but rags, Isa.1:18;64:6 Let us then ask right question, can we save ourselves from sin if there is such, are we free thinkers, free to move, does God just pick whom he choose without justice. Ro 9:16
God shall drag because you are stubborn more times to show, teach you the right way. Remember God knows and test the heart.Pr1:23-33 God move us to repent but not as a child, bringing his toy to the place he wanted. But it is our own choice. We are not remote control cars and God order his angels to move us. Check the battery if is still fully charge, if not, charge it or use solar power panel, to avoid a low battery scenario. Ge1:26,27 Lk21:14,15 Eph1:4 Ro7:18
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Monday, November 30, 2009
The Will 2:The Bereans And Apollos
The Bereans,Ac17:10-15 Apollos, Man of God, Ac18:24-28 *2P1:21May we, concerning the understanding of the scriptures, be moved by the Spirit always.
Bereans were the inhabitants of the ancient city of Berea, also known in the Bible as Beroea,now known as Veria. Wikipedia. Jews and gentiles live there. 1 Thessalonians 5:21 says Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
There are so many website that talks about the Bible. Topics, Maps,Archeology,etymologies,Videos and audios,Movies, Pictures, graphics,home study you can download...and a lot more. But these become useless, worthless, without the berean attitude.
We may believe this or that, these and that, but remember not all scholar agrees with one accord.One say this and the other says that, who are we then to believe. the verse says that they search daily the scriptures, if what they heard from Paul is truly written or the scriptures are telling.
So always seeking,always asking,always praying the right answers through the Spirit.After all,the scripture did say when the spirit come he will guide you into all truth.Jhn 16:13
Apollos ,is a man who knows few ,and yet he has a burning desire to preach the word. It was the Christian couple Priscilla and Aquila who corrected and adds to his learning. Sometimes we really do need to simply ask, to remove the unnecessary teachings.Also add to your learning the right teaching.2Pe 1:5
Sunday, November 29, 2009
The Will of Will
THE Will
• 4. customary behavior: used to indicate the way that something usually happens or the way that somebody usually does something
Will (law), disposition by an individual of his or her property, intended to take effect after death. A disposition of real property by will is termed a devise; a disposition of personal property by will is termed a bequest. The person making a will, called the testator, must have testamentary capacity, that is, must be of full age and sound mind and must act without undue influence by others.
Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2009. © 1993-2008 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
The Will of God
Isa 55:8-9
8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.
9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that showeth mercy (Rom. 9:15-16).
and
The Will of Man
Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God (John 1:13).
(KJV)
Will of Angels
1 Pet 1:12
12 Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into.
(KJV)
Quotes
*The need to be right—the sign of a vulgar mind.
*You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
*But what is happiness except the simple harmony between man and the life he leads.
Albert Camus
*The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. –Winston Churchill
*The Grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.-Allan K. Chalmers
*Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
Benjamin Disraeli
*We are to live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.-Anne Frank
*Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.
Rita Mae Brown
*Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.-Dale Carnegie
*Sanity may be madness but the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.-Don Quixote
*Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.-Mohandas K. Gandhi
*To sit patiently with a yearning that has not yet been fulfilled, and to trust that, that fulfillment will come, is quite possibly one of the most powerful “magic skills” that human beings are capable of. It has been noted by almost every ancient wisdom trafition.
*The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams.-Elizabeth Gilbert
*The world to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of rather low quality on the whole and less even in quality than it looks to those who have not tried it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
*The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and virtuous people.
*Whoever is happy will make others happy, too.
*Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.-Mark Twain
*Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to yourself and others.-
Buddha
*There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life—happiness, freedom, and peace of mind—are always attained by giving them to someone else.-Peyton Conway March
*Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.-Sophocles
*When one door of happiness is closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we not see the one which has been opened for.-Helen Keller
*There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.-George Sand
*The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.-Ella Wheeler Wilcox
*All seasons are beautiful for the person who carries happiness within.-Horace Friess
*Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.-John Barrymore
*It’s pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness. Poverty an’ wealth have both failed.-Kin Hubbard
*If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.-HH the Dalai Lama
*To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.-Pearls Buck
*Repentance is another name for aspiration.-Henry Ward Beecher
*Fear grows in darkness; if you think there’s a boogeyman around, turn on the light.-Dorothy Thompson
*There is no duty we so underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.-Robert Louis Stevenson
*Love is a condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.-Robert Heinlein
*If you loose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream. The Trumpet of Conscience Martin Luther King Jr.
*I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge--- myth is more potent than history—dreams are more powerful than facts—only hope always triumphs over experience—laughter is the cure for grief—love is stronger than death.-Robert Fulghum
*Once you choose hope anything’s possible.-Christopher Reeve
*That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest.-Henry David Thoreau
*Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.-Marcel Proust
*The truth which has made us free will in the end make us glad also.-Felix Adler
*Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.-Denis Waitley
*You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy.-Eric Hoffer
*Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime. Therefore, we are saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good make complete sense in any immediate context of history; Therefore we are saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone. Therefore, we are saved by love. No virtuous act is quite a virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as from our own; Therefore, we are saved by the final form of love which is forgiven.-Reinhold Niebuhr
• 4. customary behavior: used to indicate the way that something usually happens or the way that somebody usually does something
Will (law), disposition by an individual of his or her property, intended to take effect after death. A disposition of real property by will is termed a devise; a disposition of personal property by will is termed a bequest. The person making a will, called the testator, must have testamentary capacity, that is, must be of full age and sound mind and must act without undue influence by others.
Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2009. © 1993-2008 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
The Will of God
Isa 55:8-9
8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.
9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that showeth mercy (Rom. 9:15-16).
and
The Will of Man
Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God (John 1:13).
(KJV)
Will of Angels
1 Pet 1:12
12 Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into.
(KJV)
Quotes
*The need to be right—the sign of a vulgar mind.
*You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
*But what is happiness except the simple harmony between man and the life he leads.
Albert Camus
*The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. –Winston Churchill
*The Grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.-Allan K. Chalmers
*Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
Benjamin Disraeli
*We are to live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.-Anne Frank
*Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.
Rita Mae Brown
*Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.-Dale Carnegie
*Sanity may be madness but the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.-Don Quixote
*Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.-Mohandas K. Gandhi
*To sit patiently with a yearning that has not yet been fulfilled, and to trust that, that fulfillment will come, is quite possibly one of the most powerful “magic skills” that human beings are capable of. It has been noted by almost every ancient wisdom trafition.
*The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams.-Elizabeth Gilbert
*The world to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of rather low quality on the whole and less even in quality than it looks to those who have not tried it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
*The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and virtuous people.
*Whoever is happy will make others happy, too.
*Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.-Mark Twain
*Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to yourself and others.-
Buddha
*There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life—happiness, freedom, and peace of mind—are always attained by giving them to someone else.-Peyton Conway March
*Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.-Sophocles
*When one door of happiness is closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we not see the one which has been opened for.-Helen Keller
*There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.-George Sand
*The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.-Ella Wheeler Wilcox
*All seasons are beautiful for the person who carries happiness within.-Horace Friess
*Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.-John Barrymore
*It’s pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness. Poverty an’ wealth have both failed.-Kin Hubbard
*If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.-HH the Dalai Lama
*To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.-Pearls Buck
*Repentance is another name for aspiration.-Henry Ward Beecher
*Fear grows in darkness; if you think there’s a boogeyman around, turn on the light.-Dorothy Thompson
*There is no duty we so underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.-Robert Louis Stevenson
*Love is a condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.-Robert Heinlein
*If you loose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream. The Trumpet of Conscience Martin Luther King Jr.
*I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge--- myth is more potent than history—dreams are more powerful than facts—only hope always triumphs over experience—laughter is the cure for grief—love is stronger than death.-Robert Fulghum
*Once you choose hope anything’s possible.-Christopher Reeve
*That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest.-Henry David Thoreau
*Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.-Marcel Proust
*The truth which has made us free will in the end make us glad also.-Felix Adler
*Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.-Denis Waitley
*You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy.-Eric Hoffer
*Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime. Therefore, we are saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good make complete sense in any immediate context of history; Therefore we are saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone. Therefore, we are saved by love. No virtuous act is quite a virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as from our own; Therefore, we are saved by the final form of love which is forgiven.-Reinhold Niebuhr
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