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Acts 15:7 "And when there had been much disputing, Peter rose up, and said unto them, Men [and] brethren, ye know how that a good while ago God made choice[1] among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel, and believe."
There is no sin without consent just as the power to repent requires the power to choose. The power to change requires the power to choose. Love is a product of choice. Love requires sacrifice which is why freewill offerings and charity were so much a part of the Old and New Testaments. Got created the individual where we may choose to eat of the tree of life or the tree of knowledge.
"Freedom is the Right to Choose, the Right to create for oneself the alternatives of Choice. Without the possibility of Choice, and the exercise of Choice, a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing.” Archibald MacLeish
If you desire the right to choose you must protect the right of choice through the whole of society. To protect that liberty of choice within every society the people will be gathered together by the bands of Love or licentiousness, by charity or covetous practices.
We are endowed by Our Creator with that right to choose righteousness of [[the way] or suffer the consequences ofsloth and avarice for the right to choose includes the responsibility to choose righteously.
- ↑ 1586 ~ἐκλέγομαι~ eklegomai \@ek-leg’-om-ahee\@ middle voice from 1537 and 3004 (in its primary sense); TDNT-4:144,505; {See TDNT 431} v AV-choose 19, choose out 1, make choice 1; 21
- 1) to pick out, choose, to pick or choose out for one’s self
- 1a) choosing one out of many, i.e. Jesus choosing his disciples
- 1b) choosing one for an office
- 1c) of God choosing whom he judged fit to receive his favours and separated from the rest of mankind to be peculiarly his own and to be attended continually by his gracious oversight
- 1c1) i.e. the Israelites
- 1d) of God the Father choosing Christians, as those whom he set apart from the irreligious multitude as dear unto himself, and whom he has rendered, through faith in Christ, citizens in the Messianic kingdom: (#Jas 2:5) so that the ground of the choice lies in Christ and his merits only
- 1) to pick out, choose, to pick or choose out for one’s self