The love of God for us is one reason why He gave us free will to either accept or reject that love. If we choose to reject it, then He honors our choice. Letting someone go if they don’t want to be with you is an act of love.
I’m perfectly happy with everyone defining the term “justify” as they see fit, otherwise we risk being sidetracked by an argument about semantics and meanings that’ll almost certainly end up leading us nowhere.
Yes I am.
Hard to do philosophy if you don’t have defined terms. You at least, who are asking the question, ought to risk taking a defined position.goout:
I’m perfectly happy with everyone defining the term as they see fit, otherwise we risk being sidetracked by an argument about semantics and meanings that’ll almost certainly end up leading us nowhere.
So I’m perfectly content with everyone defining the term “justify” as they see fit, and I’ll leave the discussion about semantics to someone else.
I’ll plead some level of ignorance on the definition, agreed?
But if everyone defines the word as they see fit, none of the answers can definitively be said to fit the question. All are meaningless unless there is agreement on the term under discussion.
But if you’re a solipsist, and we’re all figments of your imagination, how does “thinking” work for us?
Zero. It’s a place that must exist, by nature of man’s free will. Even if it’s never used, it must exist so that those who reject God’s invitation to heaven at particular judgement have a place to go.
I would be perfectly happy, for those who are in the basement chose it of their own free will. It was not a choice made for them.
Yes, because people have doubt about Hell and Heaven.
Not really, earlier you chose to define the term “justified” as that which God chooses, and I was perfectly fine with that. Now if someone chooses to define it differently, then I’ll probably be perfectly fine with that too.
I mean you won’t choose Hell over Heaven if you witness it, if you are 100% sure. People are in state of disbelief. So they do all sort of things.
Actually no, I didn’t define the term at all. I simply used a definition that already existed and seemed to fit my point. Which has now led to a discussion of semantics.
It is not matter of explaining. People need to witness Heaven and Hell so they can choose.
That because some people have specific nature. Sometimes it is very difficult to go against your nature.
So you mean that 100% of human beings witness Heaven and Hell and they choose to sin?
I find it sad, that so many promising threads devolve into a discussion about semantics, when they really don’t have to. By choosing not to define it, I accept whatever definition of justify each individual finds acceptable to them.