Free Will?

Free Will

Free will, there is a deception! What is free about it? Yes it did not cost us anything to get it GOD gave it to us when He created us in His image. The difference is that He is GOD and we are not, He is Pure and we are not, He is Just and we are not, He is Righteous and we are not, He is Truth and we are not, He is Perfect and we are not.

So when GOD created humanity in Adam and Eve He gave them free will and Adam sinned by disobeying one simple rule, “Do not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.” That was the only rule! There were no other rules, they were to take care of the garden, but that was not a rule that was a responsibility based on their keeping the one rule.

Being GOD, He knew that this would be a problem otherwise why would Jesus have been crucified before the foundation of the world was laid. So GOD already had a plan of salvation for humanity when He created humanity in His image with free will.

The ability to freely choose came at a price, Jesus’ life and death as the sacrifice for sin for humanity. To redeem us back to the Father because that first act of free will gave away our responsibility and therefore our rights. Ever since then we have struggled with doing what is good or what is evil and most decide to do what is not good.

How do I come to that conclusion? Just look at the world, less than half of the people of the world claim to believe in the GOD of the Bible (who is the only true GOD), and less than half of them actually know and obey GOD.

The other deception about free will is that it is a right. We have the right to chose as we will. Actually it is only an ability and the choices we make all come with consequences. We are actually only choosing to obey GOD or not to obey GOD; every time we make a free will choice we are either obeying or disobeying GOD.

Therefore our free will choice just as Adam’s free will choice determine the current and next phase of our life based on the consequences of the results of our choice. When we choose to obey GOD the consequences will work to our favor and good, but when we choice disobedience to GOD then the consequences always lead to death. That was the known consequence for Adam and Eve and it is the know consequence for all humanity when we choose self will over GOD’s will.

Self will always leads to death and GOD’s will always leads to life. The consequences of sin is death and the consequences of obedience is life.

Jesus said He only came to do the will of His Father and we saw that in the garden of Gethsemane. “Father, if this cup could pass from Me, but not My will but Yours be done.” He also taught us to seek the Father’s will for ourself. “Our Father who is in Heaven, holy is Your name, Your Kingdom come Your will be done in the earth as it is in Heaven.” “Seek first the Kingdom of GOD and His righteousness and all of these things will be added to you.”

If doing the Father’s will was the only option for Jesus it should be the only option for us!

We have a free will but it is neither free nor a right and our decisions always come with consequences whether good or bad.