Does God have free will?

Originally posted by Infose ↑

""Remember:
Proverbs 29:
18 Where there is no vision, the people perish: . . .

Slider,

Instead of wasting your time here preaching either to the ones that already share your vision or to the ones that refuse to accept it I would like to suggest that you should go into the depths of the Amazon rainforest in Peru and use your preaching skils there as in such place there are large numbers of people in imminent danger of perishing due to their inability to realize that what they need in order to survive is to be guided by the truly visionary thoughts contained in your version of the Bible.

I am sure that those living there are ready to understand that their imminent demise is just the product of an ongoing struggle between good and evil that started when adam ate that damned good tasting apple. Had God designed apples to taste like limes maybe Eve instead of saying those fatal words: "ït tatest good " would have said: it tastes sour.

http://www.survivalinternational.org/tribes/isolatedperu

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Infose,

I Corinthians 13
1 If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.3 And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body [a]to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing.

4 Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag andis not arrogant, 5 does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered,6 does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; 7 [b]bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

8 Love never fails; but if there are gifts of [c]prophecy, they will be done away; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part; 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away. 11 When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I [d]became a man, I did away with childish things. 12 For now wesee in a mirror [e]dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known. 13 But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the[f]greatest of these is love.

Footnotes:

1 Corinthians 13:3 Early mss read that I may boast

1 Corinthians 13:7 Or covers

1 Corinthians 13:8 Lit prophecies

1 Corinthians 13:11 Lit have become...have done away with

1 Corinthians 13:12 Lit in a riddle

1 Corinthians 13:13 Lit greater