I absolutely love the way God works....
So I had this big ol' blog post planned for today. Ideas written down, notes ready to go. But then I saw a notice from 
I immediately downloaded it, started poking around and then....Came across his blog that he just wrote today.
I'm so glad I did....
Because he brought up a topic that is of serious discussion within Christianity. The question is simple...Do we have a choice?
This thing called 'freewill' is always up for debate, even within secular circles. So please note, while Meno's post was addressing both religious beliefs and non-religious beliefs, all I can ever talk about it my experience...
This goes against a popular doctrine within Christianity called 'predestination'. Now if you open up your Strong's Concordance and find the word, you will see it appears 4 to 6 times...And always by the apostle Paul.
Now while I admit, there is other places in scripture that seem to bring up this idea that God has predestined the elect only, it's always something that never sat well with me.
Before people get the pitchforks...I do not consider this doctrine salvational. Meaning you can believe it, or not...Christ is still what matters for salvation.
But I digress...
The reason I have a massive issue with this doctrine comes simply for the general theme of the bible...
Choose this day whom you will serve.
From Genesis to Revelation the entire narrative is God's fallen race, choosing to worship Him instead of anything (or anyone) else.
This is...1 John 4:8...God is love.
You cannot get love if there is no choice.
Think about this logically...God is love, so does He want automatons worshipping Him? How is that love? Now someone will argue, we don't get to define love, God does...
AMEN! God....IS...Love.
Love is not mindless forced worship. It simply cannot be.
As for the word predestined, remember who wrote that word in the NT...And for that, 2 Peter 3:15-16....You might wanna look that up ;)
Again, when push comes to shive I truly believe this is not a salvational issue. However it does speak about the character of God. And the reason there are so many non-believers out there is perhaps because, God's character has been under attack since the garden of Eden.
Random thoughts from hanging out in the new Snapie app, and sitting in my hotel room. I hope it stirs some conversation and thought :)
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