What Does it Mean to Have a Free Will?

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This is a ministry of striving for eternity. What does it mean to have a free will?

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The fact that God gives us a free will is something that's assumed by many.

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Is it really free? Well, actually, no. When we talk about a free will, we must deal with this in very specific points.

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There's two words here, free and will. The idea of free has the idea that we have this will being described as being unencumbered by any outside influences.

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The idea of a will is a volition, the ability to choose. What is very clear to all of us, and in scripture, is that we have a will.

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You and I can make choices. The question is, are those choices free?

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Well, actually, no. Those choices are choices that we make, but we are enslaved to sin as unbelievers, as it says in Romans.

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Therefore, we don't have a free will. We have a will that was effected by the fall of Adam and Eve, and therefore that will is enslaved to sin.

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Until, of course, the point that we become a believer. When the Holy Spirit indwells us, we now have the ability to freely choose between good and evil.

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So we only have a free will when we become a Christian. This podcast is part of the

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