Troy, you said... "The article stands. A perfect God bestows a perfect will and a perfect will must be allowed to freely in His image to choose . the will has been made so perfect it is truly in the image of God. That is a perfect God that would do this. No fate, free will. God of calvanism may not be God of the Bible because it kills free will and the image of God. God wills all to be saved but doesn't mean all so choose salvation. It doesn't make God fallible, it makes man fallible. It makes God infallible for giving us His image. It all the more glorifies Him that with His free will he never sins and thus we should reprove man for not choosing correctly. The perfection is in not automatons but in the free will being truly free."
Why do you think the 'will' has to be 'perfect'? Was man 'perfect' in knowledge? "perfect' like God in power? Perfect like God in foreknowledge? Can God choose to lie? No? Then we see that even His perfect free will can't choose every option. lying is an option of a free will isn't it?
Did you know that I deposited a million dollars in an account for you? Why didn't you withdraw it in the time alloted? I mean after all, do you not have free will? Couldn't you have chosen to withdraw it? Oh? You didn't know it was there? I guess free will does not help one choose an alternative that one doesn't know about.
I want to dunk a basketball over Tim Duncan! I freely choose to do that! I'm 5'9" 240 lbs and I can barely jump a fence. Think my 'perfect free will' will help slam one on him?
You are insulting in that when someone asks you to give a biblical refutation of a position and you fail to even attempt to use the Bible but then declare to use the biblical verses of scripture that back it up. What a cop out. Is that how you like to be treated, in a cavalier manner? If you bring an honest question or even a thought out view point that differs with someone and seek to honestly debate the scriptures that each of you think support the views, then others can understand why you think the way you do and even if they disagree, unity among brethern is not lost. But when you are cavalier about someone else who has taken the time and effort to explain to you their beliefs, it shows how immature and selfish you are.
