Is our free will absolute?

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FOR EXAMPLE:

God puts His special revelation the SPIRIT OF ADOPTION via our spirit into our hearts and our brains.
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We know God’s gift of special revelations, in our hearts and our brains.
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The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children/elect of God and we cry out “Abba! Father!
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We have “Unconditional BELIEF in what God says.”

We have “Unconditional TRUST in God.”

We have “Unconditional LOVE for God and for others.”

We have incredible power and zeal to proclaim the Gospel to everyone.
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The Holy Spirit is burning in our hearts, we have incredible joy, we know we are God’s children/elect. – FROM GOD’S SPECIAL REVELATIONS. – No one can have joy in a fear induced paralyzed state, where someone doesn’t know, will spend eternity in heaven, or in the pains of hell.
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We have a thanks-full heart for God for our salvation and we have faith to believe it.

Without faith it is impossible to please God. – I believe faithlessness is a FALSE humility.

We HAVE BEEN saved by faith. – How can we saved by faith if we don’t believe we have been saved and we are members of the Body of Christ?

The Gospel which was dry before comes alive and lives in our hearts.

We start to pray in the spirit, in a new tongues. – It is a spiritual gift, not a condition to have salvation.

Then we can be sure we have God’s special revelations MANY TIMES OVER and we can be certain we are God’s children/elect.
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Of course we can have God’s special revelations that we are God’s children/elect many other different way as well.
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GOD WANTS US THAT WE KNOW OUR ELECTION

Phil.1:6; (Ignatius Catholic Study Bible)
And I am sure, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.
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Rom.8:38-39; “For I am convinced that… nothing in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” – If an elect would be separated for any reason and would end up in hell, God would lose His omniscience. – DE FIDE Dogma.
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In 2 Cor.13:5-6 God has given us a COMMAND and we MUST obey it!

When God has given us the COMMAND to do the test of our position/election, God has given us the ability to KNOW the test results.
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2 Cor.13:5-6; (Ignatius Catholic Study Bible)
Quote: “Examine yourselves, to see whether you are holding to your faith.

TEST YOURSELVES.

Do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in you? – unless indeed you fail to meet the test!
I hope YOU WILL FIND OUT that we have not failed. End quote.
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2 Pet.1:10; Therefore, my brothers and sisters, make every effort to confirm your calling and election.
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We should not live our Christian lives each day wondering and worrying in the paralyzed state whether or not we will spend eternity in heaven or in the pains of hell.
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In my next post I will respond item number two.
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God bless you Goout and God bless every readers of the CAF.
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God bless you Goout and God bless every readers of the CAF.

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God bless you also.
How do you specifically respond to these two items:

1. We live in time, God does not live in time. God’s knowledge or our eternal destiny, what we call “pre-destination”, is not accessible to us because God is outside of time.
2. If God is love, and love is relationship, both parties must have completely free will to choose the other. Otherwise this is not love if the freedom of parties is constrained.

How do you view those two items?
You are putting a lot of scripture and definitions out there, but we have no mutual understanding of the above items.

God bless you Goout and God bless every readers of the CAF.

You said Goout:
If God is love, and love is relationship, both parties must have completely free will to choose the other. Otherwise this is not love if the freedom of parties is constrained.
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You are perfectly correct and I 100 % agree with you, probably everyone agree with you.
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Love between two people can be forced, forced love is not true love.
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God does not force us to love Him, when we love God we are 100 % believe the love comes from us, not God forces us to love Him and this is correct.
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Phil.2:13; “For it is God who works in you BOTH TO WILL and TO ACT for His good pleasure.”
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Aquinas said, “God changes the will without forcing it.
But he can change the will from the fact that He himself operates in the will as He does in nature,” De Veritatis 22:9.

God operates in our will by His program in our brains, of course this program includes our limited free will as well.
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WHAT WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND IS:

Everything we have are God’s free gifts.

If God would take back everything He has given to us, we would have nothing, and we would be nothing.
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Even our ability to love and to love, are God’s gifts, planted into our brains by His program.
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Our life is controlled by God’s program which planted into our brains by God, of course this program also contains our limited free will as well, so we are not God’s puppets.
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WITHOUT GOING DOWN TO THE FINE DETAILS

When we love God and we love others, we feel and believe, this love comes from us, and it is comes from us because God programmed it into our hearts and brains, but in reality the ABILITY to love and to LOVE are God’s gifts by programmed into our hearts and our brains.
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God bless you Goout and God bless every readers of the CAF.

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Do you think that in this new era, God had decided to make our free will absolute?

Repectfully Opinion only in pondering on this first what does the word absolute mean?
Ab-so-lute
Noun> a value or principle that regarded as universally would or that may be viewed with other things"> absolute> good vs evil"

What does God have to say on this>> within His Spoken Word?

James 5:12 " Above all, my beloved, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or by any other oath, but let your " Yes be yes and your No" be no, so that you may not fall under condemnation"

Matthew 37 " Let your word be “Yes, Yes” or “No, No; anything more than this comes from the evil one”

My understanding opinion only>> Our Heavenly Father has given >All> Free Will, which gives us all >>The Right to > Question and to Examine< but with that gift of >>Free Will >>>given also make’s each one of us >> Responsible and Accountable<<, for how our>> Free Will choices<< will effect the very lives of others, their >>>Freedom and Free Will also, does it not?

Futher pondering on Free Will if it is absolute, believing only >>>that it is absolute for this reason>>after asking many questions, pondering on, asking in prayer guidence of understanding>> His Spoken Word>>>>right or wrong>>>

Believe our Heavenly Father>>> will never take away His Gift of >>>Freedom and Free Will from His Creation>>>Why?>>> for in doing so, that would make>>> HIM>>> fully >> Accounable, Responsible>>> for All that is not good, allowing innocent suffering to take place upon others, allowing unjust wars, allowing unrighteous choices made by His children>> knowingly would injure others>> personally and physcially>> etc etc etc in this world, would it not?

Peace Just ones opinion only after pondering upon Free Will if absolute, in questioning and examining His Spoken Word.

. And through out the whole bible within His Spoken Words gives us Laws, Instructions, Knowledge and Understanding allows errors poor choices (child)>>>>until the age of Maturity>>attain understanding >>to know right from wrong. Prophets speak of such also.

Thus also repeating all throughout the Bible>>>>Return to Me and I Will return to you>>but the choice is ours to make>>He forces NO one to do so, He is asking also giving us a Promise >>>I Will return to you, if done with pure intentions of repentence, truly sorry? Choice is Freely ours to make?
Peace