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Free Will and Biblical Prophecy: Are They Mutually Exclusive?

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Brian
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Message 105 of 227 (495403)
01-22-2009 11:12 AM 		Reply to: Message 103 by ICANT
01-22-2009 10:55 AM

Re: Free Will
He is not going to make you do something you don't choose to do.
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He will not force you to do anything.
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Have you ever read the Book of Jonah?
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Brian
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01-23-2009 11:16 AM 		Reply to: Message 124 by ICANT
01-23-2009 12:43 AM

Unless of course...
At the end of that 120 years all life ceased except what was on the ark that Noah had built.
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Again this depends on which Bible you read.
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The 'closer to the time therefore more accurate' Septuagint has Methuselah living for 14 years after the Flood. I wonder how he managed to do that, maybe floating around on some vegetation?
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Brian
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01-24-2009 5:29 AM 		Reply to: Message 123 by ICANT
01-22-2009 10:55 PM

Re: Free Will
Hi ICANT
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The point of my post was that what you claim is incorrect. You wishfully said:
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He is not going to make you do something you don't choose to do.
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He will not force you to do anything.
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In particular you said that God will not force you to do anything, and my post pointed out that He forced Jonah to go to Nineveh against Jonah's wishes, Jonah even headed in the oppositie direction from Nineveh.
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Therefore, this is anither example of the Bible contradicting what a believer wishes that God was like, but He isn't, the God of the Bible is an evil, bloodthirsty, idiot.
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I don't have any free will.
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Neither did Jonah.
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I know.
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The free will defence is just another in a very long series of very poor excuses for God's obvious hatred for the human race.
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I am bought and paid for, I belong to God to do with as He see's fit.
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Have some self-respect ICANT, it is just a story invented by the ancient imagination to explain the world around them, you really should not be taking the Bible seriously you know.
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My only choice is to obey or suffer the consequences which is up to God.
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That is so terribly sad.
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