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to a coerced action. Without free will, God would be playing a very terrible
and unloving game with his most prized creations.
Even without the cited Biblical passages showing man is
a free will agent, it must be seen that man is free to make choices. This
proof would come from the fact that God can't contradict himself. God is
good, so he can't cause evil. According to people who deny free will, God
has preordained our every action. If this is the case, we can extrapolate
that if a husband kills his wife, then God preordained, or forced, him to do
it. Killing is a sin, God can't sin, so God couldn't have preordained the
killing. This said, it must be accepted that the husband had free will to
make the decision to kill his wife.
Man has the freedom to make his own choices. Without
the ability to make the choices, if God preordained us to do whatever we do,
than God would be the author of evil. Agreeing with the doctrine of
predestination in a case as above is a great heresy. However, we can see
that with God in our lives and following the lead of the Holy Spirit, we'll
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