Comments on: Devout Christians: Understanding God’s Gift of Free Will – The Power of Choice in Christianity. https://thyblackman.com/2024/06/14/devout-christians-understanding-gods-gift-of-free-will-the-power-of-choice-in-christianity/ Black News 24/7 Online for the Black Community. Tue, 18 Mar 2025 15:40:40 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: gary https://thyblackman.com/2024/06/14/devout-christians-understanding-gods-gift-of-free-will-the-power-of-choice-in-christianity/comment-page-1/#comment-639483 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 15:40:40 +0000 https://thyblackman.com/?p=121526#comment-639483 The Free Will Test

Given a choice, which of these two options would a rational person choose:

1. You were created like every other animal. You experience pleasure but you cannot experience true love. You have no awareness of self. You are incapable of experiencing the joy of a relationship with God. As a trade off, neither you nor ANY OTHER CREATURE on earth will ever experience the horrific consequences of “the Fall”: billions of years of horrific suffering and death.

2. You were created with self-awareness. You were created with free will. You can distinguish between what is morally right and what is morally wrong. You are free to choose the joy of an eternal relationship with God or the sorrow and misery of an eternity of rebellion against God. However, the trade off is this: just one slip up…and you lose it all! Just one wrong choice of your free will, and you and all creation will suffer horrific misery in this life and, for most, a painful miserable death…and then, an eternity of suffering and agony in Hell.

]]> By: Peggy Jean Camper https://thyblackman.com/2024/06/14/devout-christians-understanding-gods-gift-of-free-will-the-power-of-choice-in-christianity/comment-page-1/#comment-622581 Tue, 31 Dec 2024 00:28:03 +0000 https://thyblackman.com/?p=121526#comment-622581 How is Christianity or believing in a god a choice if the person uses their brain and does not believe the story, then they are threatened and tortured, which means no choice.

]]> By: Peggy Jean Camper https://thyblackman.com/2024/06/14/devout-christians-understanding-gods-gift-of-free-will-the-power-of-choice-in-christianity/comment-page-1/#comment-622579 Tue, 31 Dec 2024 00:26:21 +0000 https://thyblackman.com/?p=121526#comment-622579 How is Christianity or believing in a god a choice if the person uses their brain and does not believe the story, then they are threatened and tortured forever? That is not a choice, but control.

]]> By: John-Luke Hamilton https://thyblackman.com/2024/06/14/devout-christians-understanding-gods-gift-of-free-will-the-power-of-choice-in-christianity/comment-page-1/#comment-577977 Sun, 16 Jun 2024 12:10:25 +0000 https://thyblackman.com/?p=121526#comment-577977 Thank you for your words brother. Praise the Lord for the illumination His Spirit and His Word brings. (Ps. 119:114)

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