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09 July, 2010

Do I have a free will?

I'm always wondering, do I even have free will, if all thing works for good for those who have been called according to His Purpose, where will human's responsibilities fit in God's master plan. This is sounds very unsettling between God's sovereignty and Human's responsibilities.

Do we have so called 'a power' to change His plan in our life? Is it true that faith is required our will to believe otherwise we will not be born again? Can I choose to believe in Him? I don't think this is a very simple question to answer.

If we define 'free will' as - I want to eat noodles instead of rice. I want to go to school instead of to work and so on, then yes I believe in 'free will' - because I have a capacity to do those activities. But if I say, I will choose to fly or not. That is not free will since we don't have a capacity to fly like a bird (not in the aero plane).

It's the same as a spiritual death. We have no capacity to do spiritual things, since we are dead people spiritually (I wonder why it doesn't call Spiritually fainted or Spiritually coma). How can dead people asking for a food, how can dead people talk to us? When Jesus resurrected Lazarus, Lazarus didn't have 'time' to think, I want to wake up and walkout from the tomb. There is no decision. There is no free will for Lazarus, he can not choose not to rise and live again. It's up to God's grace upon him.

So I believe there is no such thing as a 'free will' when we talk about spiritual death. These 2 verses in the bible that I believe as a ground that we don't have 'free will' it's only because of Grace when we believe.

John 6:44 No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day.

John 6:65 And he said, “This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted him by the Father.”

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