Jesus never had any free will.
God does not possess free will in the same way that humans once had it (then all lost it throught the Fall and some have regained it through the new birth). I will give you your due that God is free to do what He wills.
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Hello? Is this your first day here? That's nice.
Here is a friend for you. He's called Calvin, and he lives at Christian Clarity. Off you go and have a nice little chat. You can have some milk and biscuits later.
[I... I don't know why I wrote that. I couldn't help myself. It's as if it were predestined...]
Chicken soup!
Things are always supposed to get better with chicken soup.
I don't like chicken soup, particularly the cheap supermarket brand ones.
Can things also get better with cream of mushroom soup? Despite the fact that it usually looks like baby puke...
Did I exercise Free Will (TM) by writing the above? I have not been born again... There are serious doubts about my original birth - Ah wuz born to be bad - bad as that there Leroy Brown... He one mofo of a serious bad dude.
Doesn't this create a rather large hole in Christian theology?
1) Non-believers go to Hell unless they become believers.
Wait a minute. We don't have any free will unless we go through your phoney-baloney spiritual rejuvenation process? But if we don't have free will, then whether or not we decide to do it is already pre-determined, which means all the people God sends to hell really had no way of getting out of it.
And you believe in this guy?
Jacobus Arminius would disagree with you. So would John Wesley, Charles Fox Parham, the church fathers, and countless other christian theologians who don't accept John Calvin's doctrine. But this is new. Applying Calvinism not only to humans, but to god as well? That's interesting. Bullshittery, but interesting.
"God does not possess free will" ... "God is free to do what He wills."
Odd (and un-Biblical) as Calvinism is, it at least is internally consistent!
Stop capitalising his name. He's simply a bloodlusting, foreskin-munching, misogynist little goblin who SAYS he is god.
I wouldn't trust that one to build a decent doghouse, much less the Cosmos.
Yes, yes. God indeed IS Dr. Manhattan.
Or, you know, the other way around. Whichever works.
If we take into account the belief of many fundamentalists, that god is omniscient, it is the logical conclusion that god cannot have a free will.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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