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[[File:Changes.jpg|right|thumb|300px|The [[power to change]] requires the power to [[choose]]. But we may lose the power to [[choose]] in the [[world]] because of what we choose to believe and how we act upon that belief. The choice to accept that we cannot decide what is good and evil by our own intellect will only occur if we are [[humble]]. We must believe and seek to do right according to a Source or [[Holy Spirit]] greater than ourselves. Without the [[exousia|power of choice]] there can be neither love and charity nor sin and consent. ]]
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== Choose ==
 
[[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 [[Choose|choice]]<Ref>{{1586}} </Ref> 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 [[Choose|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 [[trees|the tree of life]] or the [[tree of knowledge]].
 
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'''"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
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The power to change requires the power to choose. But we may lose the power to choose in the world because of what we choose to believe and how we act upon that belief. The choice to accept that we cannot decide what is good and evil by our own intellect will only occur if we are humble. We must believe and seek to do right according to a Source or Holy Spirit greater than ourselves. Without the power of choice there can be neither love and charity nor sin and consent.

Choose

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.


Predestination

Predestination, in theology, is the doctrine that all events have been willed by God, usually with reference to the eventual fate of the individual soul.

Explanations of predestination often seek to address the "paradox of free will", whereby God's omniscience seems incompatible with human free will.

Freewill may be at the core of God's gift of life in love to man, and His Divine hope for man to choose to love Him back.

Predestination as a doctrine in Calvinism deals with the question of the control that God exercises over the world. In the words of the Westminster Confession of Faith, God "freely and unchangeably ordained whatsoever comes to pass."

"This terrible doctrine of predestination was taken up again in various forms at various ages by Cathars, Albigenses, Calvinists, and Jansenists, and was also to play a curious part in the theological struggles of Kepler and Galileo."

Is there any validity to the arguments in favor of predestination?

Once someone makes a choice, there may be a cause and effect which will produce an inevitable consequence. But to suggest that there is no choice at all, and we are condemned only to exist within the whim of God's singular power of choice, is to suggest there is no love.

There can be no such thing as love without choice. That is the way things work, by definition, love can only be a product of choice.

If there is no choice, we are just biological puppets. Can a puppet love? Can a robot?

How many times does the Bible talk about free will choice, freewill offerings, and free assemblies?

If there is no free will then why do we see the Bible talk about giving man choices, warnings, and even rebukes, none of which would be needed in a universe without choice.

Freewill offerings are mentioned dozens of time[2] which we are told were offered "willingly".[3]

We are told to choose and are given choices hundreds of times in the Bible. From the very beginning, there were explicit instructions about eating or not eating of the two trees.

Infact without some choice the law is superfluous and of no consequence along with judgement itself.

If God did not give man a right to choose, man becomes a mere toy in a childish god's sandbox.

But no, God is great, and gave enough of Himself to man that he not only has a right to choose, but is imposed upon by the responsibility to do so.

"Choose you this day whom ye will serve;"

Every choice is not yours to make. You are only predestined based on those fundamental choices you make.

You are supposed to choose to repent and to seek the kingdom of God and His righteousness, or you can "choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that [were] on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD." Joshua 24:15

Unfortunately, most people choose to serve those lesser gods many.

Where did it come from

Predestination as a theology seems to be constructed from the use of one word that appears in two places in the epistle to the Romans and Ephesians.


Romans 8:29 "For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. 30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified."

Ephesians 1:5 "Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will... 11 In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:"

What was the purpose of Christ?

Was it to set the captive free so that he could make freewill offerings of charity in love for one another?

Do you imagine it was to start a church that says it is okay to covet your neighbor's goods through men who exercise authority one over the other, like the governments of the gentiles do?

Do you believe in the love of Christ that commanded that His disciples make the people sit down in the Tens so that they can form a network capable of a daily ministration that provides for the needy of society in Pure Religion through charity, love, and hope?

If you choose the unrighteous way of force, fear, and fealty, there will be sacrifice but little or no mercy.

In such covetous practices through men who exercise authority one over the other, you will be predestined for destruction through the strong delusion that the evil of coveting and biting one another is good.

But if you choose to live by faith, hope, and charity, which is The Way of Christ, you will have sacrifice too but also mercy. You will be predestined by that choice for eternal life.

So, you have the choice of loving the gods of this world who by their nature take away choice and make you mere [merchandise]], or serve the God of heaven by loving one another.


Footnotes

  1. ↑ 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
  2. ↑ 05071 ^הבדנ^ nᵉdabah \@ned-aw-baw’\@ NunDaletBeitHey from 05068 NunDaletBeit offer willingly; n f; {See TWOT on 1299 @@ "1299a"} AV-freewill offering 15, offerings 9, free offering 2, freely 2, willing offering 1, voluntary offering 1, plentiful 1, voluntarily 1, voluntary 1, willing 1, willingly 1; 26
    1) voluntariness, free-will offering
    1a) voluntariness
    1b) freewill, voluntary, offering
  3. ↑ 05068 ^בדנ^ nadab \@naw-dab’\@ a primitive root BeitDaletNun; v; {See TWOT on 1299} AV-offered willingly 6, willingly offered 5, willing 2, offered 1, willing 1, offered freely 1, give willingly 1; 17
    1) to incite, impel, make willing
    1a) (Qal) to incite, impel
    1b) (Hithpael)
    1b1) to volunteer
    1b2) to offer free-will offerings
    • See also 05069 בדנ nᵉdab translated AV-freely offered, freewill offering, offering willingly, minded of their own freewill; defined
    to volunteer, offer freely


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