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  Enter Free Will into the picture, a long and hotly debated attribute humanity
received from its maker or did it? Romans 8:27-30 27And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of
the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.
28And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
29For 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.
30Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he
justified, them he also glorified. Could it be that every man and woman has free will from birth? If so when do our lives become
predestinated? When is our destiny taken out of our hands and our fate becomes God's will? Jeremiah 29:11-13 KJV 11For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD,
thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
12Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.
13And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.  Is there a moment of time in our lives that we seek God with all our heart? He promises that
when we do we will find Him. God being omnipresent or continuously and simultaneously present throughout the whole of
creation would know when that moment happens. At that point He can predestinate our lives from the beginning, but allows
those who will not seek Him the free will not to choose Him thereby allowing both free will and predestination to co-exist
which also brings us the Christian Doctrine of Election. Every man, woman and child has the free will to choose and only they
can choose to seek God or
reject Him. Without sin innocent man would have remained innocent and could have never become more than a caretaker
of the garden. He could never have had free will and chosen his own path. Without sin he would never have fallen and
required redeeming and only by being redeemed could he become a son or daughter of God.  A holy and righteous God wants sons and daughter who love Him. He wants sons and daughters who will
fulfill the destiny He has so carefully and perfectly planned for them. But, He will not make us love Him; we have to
choose to do so therefore we had to be given free will. For this reason sin had to be introduced so that we had options,
for without options how could there be free will? Bob Goulding © October 2007 Go to:
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