{"id":476,"date":"2007-08-17T15:37:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-17T15:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2007\/08\/17\/on-free-will\/"},"modified":"2007-08-17T15:37:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-17T15:37:00","slug":"on-free-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2007\/08\/17\/on-free-will\/","title":{"rendered":"on free will"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Returning to my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.m-w.com\/\">favorite online source of definitions<\/a>, here is the definition of &#8216;free will&#8217;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>1 :<\/b> voluntary choice or decision [I do this of my own <i>free will<\/i>]<br \/><b>2 :<\/b> freedom of humans to make choices that are not determined by prior causes or by divine intervention<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Question for the class:<\/p>\n<p>If an individual can only choose one path out of two possibilities, is his will free?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>KJV Revelation 22:17 And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And <b>whosoever will<\/b>, let him take the water of life freely.<\/p>\n<p>ESV Revelation 22:17 The Spirit and the Bride say, &#8220;Come.&#8221; And let the one who hears say, &#8220;Come.&#8221; And let the one who is thirsty come; let <b>the one who desires<\/b> take the water of life without price.<\/p>\n<p>NAU Revelation 22:17 The Spirit and the bride say, &#8220;Come.&#8221; And let the one who hears say, &#8220;Come.&#8221; And let the one who is thirsty come; let <b>the one who wishes<\/b> take the water of life without cost.<\/p>\n<p>NET Revelation 22:17 And the Spirit and the bride say, &#8220;Come!&#8221; And let the one who hears say: &#8220;Come!&#8221; And let the one who is thirsty come; let <b>the one who wants it<\/b> take the water of life free of charge.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not to be contentious, but some theologies deny that men have a will while claiming to affirm it.<\/p>\n<p>See also Isaiah 55.1, John 7.37<\/p>\n<p>Regards,<br \/>Don Johnson<br \/>Jer 33.3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Returning to my favorite online source of definitions, here is the definition of &#8216;free will&#8217;: 1 : voluntary choice or decision [I do this of my own free will]2 : freedom of humans to make choices that are not determined by prior causes or by divine intervention Question for the class: If an individual can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2fYWj-7G","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}