Re: God knows your future. ...But does he?

On Thu, 06 Sep 2007 19:22:25 -0400, Gary McNees <gkmcnees@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>  
wrote:

> This is a fundamental problem. From your worldview, SOMEHING MUST MAKE  
> you
> chose the peas! Nothing MADE you choose the peas. The decision to choose
 
> the
> peas was made by Bart. Other things certainly can influence your choice,
 
> but
> you deliberate more or less, and make the choice. The SELF Bart makes
the
> choice. A man can choose against his preferences, as Paul states in  
> Romans
> 7. Every instinct of a man may be to not do a thing, yet he chooses to
do
> that thing.

But don't you see in Romans seven (and a parallel in Galatians 5) that  
when operating in the flesh we *must* choose against our preferences?  I  
really don't want to sin, but I do.

This is exactly the point of Romans seven--we are not free to choose our  
preference (not to sin), at least not in the flesh.  The tension of the  
Christian walk is bound up in this striving between the flesh and the  
spirit, one which we will happily put to rest with our mortal bodies.


Best,

Ethan

-- 
Ethan Metsger
http://uppertank.net/ethanm/





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