! Free will that cannot be completed
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God determined to use Adam's transgression to prove the truthfulness of the commandments and after that He created the creation world. In other words, God determined to prove through Adam the love and justice of God who gave the commandments and after that He created the creation world. If so, if Adam did not sin, would God not be able to prove the truthfulness of the commandments? If Adam would not have eaten the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, or if Satan would not have deceived Adam, the free will of the creatures could not have been perfected?
Assuming that God still determined to give free will to His creatures and that He still created creation world as it is now, if Adam would not sin or Helel would not fall, God would have completed the free will of His creatures in other ways. However, this assumption is meaningless, because God knew what choices the creatures would make and began to create, and through these choices He determined to fulfill His will. Even if no creature would have fallen, God would have perfected the free will of the creatures in God's way. But if no creature would fall, there would be no meaning to complete free will. Perhaps it is thought that the Creator did not give His creatures free will. Even before the cross, the fall of Satan or Adam is entirely their own responsibility, because God only allows tests that creatures can bear.[1] Also, when God reveals His love through the cross, Satan does not accept it. Satan is the one who will reject the Son anyway.[2]
Just because God did not intervene in the free will of His creatures before the creatures fell to make them sinless, it does not mean that there is a problem with God's love and justice. Rather, interfering with the free will of the creatures causes problems. God determined to perfect the free will of His creatures by letting the creatures see God's unchanging love and justice in the midst of sin along with the horrors of sin. This does not mean that God purposely waited for the fall of His creatures to use that fall to prove His love and justice toward them. God did not plan the fall of His creatures to fulfill His will. God did not created the creatures that would fall as sacrifices to fulfill His plan.[3] It is against the nature of God and has no meaning in giving free will.[4] God knows the choices of each creature in advance[5] and puts them at the appointed time[6] to accomplish His will.
The reason the LORD Jesus accepted Judas who would have been better if he had not been born[7], was not because He forced Judas to betray Him and tried to use him as a betrayer of the LORD Jesus. Betrayal was entirely Judah's own choice, and God, who respects free will, warns[8] but never participates in that choice.[9] The Son had only gone His way[10], Judas only chose to follow the Son for a while, and God used even that Judas' choice to accomplish His will. Had Judas been the one who would not have chosen to follow the Son, or who would not have betrayed the Son, God would have used someone else to make that choice, or would have spoken the prophecy differently. For Judas, who chose not to love God in the first place, God's love revealed through the cross was meaningless. For Judas, who chose not to love God, he only regretted sinning against himself more than sinning against God.[11] If Judas had been a man who loved God, Judas would have chosen to repent to please God rather than die for himself.
The LORD Jesus would take the cross, but the one who gave the LORD Jesus to His enemies so that the LORD Jesus would die on the cross committed a sin.[12] The LORD Jesus used the crimes of the enemies who tried to kill the LORD Jesus by crucifying Him[13], but the enemies who killed the LORD Jesus committed sins.[14] The will of the LORD Jesus is fulfilled through the cross[15], but the one who kills the LORD Jesus on the cross on the excuse of fulfilling the will of the LORD Jesus must die.[16]
Because the LORD Jesus uses us to accomplish His will[17], not we use the LORD Jesus to accomplish His will. Just because the LORD Jesus uses a crime to do His will in His own way, that crime cannot be recognized as the right means of doing His will, and that criminal must not be rewarded for doing His will.[18] The LORD Jesus uses even the wrong choices of the creatures who choose to sin in order to fulfill His will, but woe to those creatures who make the wrong choices.[19] If no one would have made the wrong choice, the LORD Jesus would have completed the free will of His creatures in other ways.[20]
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God already knew Helel's rebellion and Adam's crime before the creation of the creation world, and God planned to use Helel and Adam to eliminate the possibility to sin by completing the free will of the creatures and after that He determined the cross. The free will of the creatures will be completed through the cross.[21]
All creatures whose free will is not completed because they do not know the love of the cross are in a state of not fully receiving the life of God through the Son, so if they are left in an endless extension of time, they will someday surely sin. We cannot admit that a creature who will surely sin when the situation comes is rightious, just because he didn't sin now.[22]
Then, Is Helel, who fell without knowing the love of the cross, innocent, because he did not know the love of God so he was in a state that he had no choice but to sin? Absolutely not. Helel was not in a state of being forced to commit crimes. To the angels, especially to Helel, who had no one else to deceive him other than himself, through the love of the cross (or through the love of God that He would have expressed in other ways if Helel would not sin,) sufficient light would have been given to obey God until his free will was completed. It would have been impossible for Helel to sin unless he deliberately decided and chose to rebel against God.[23]
The Creator would have tried to make Helel aware of His love as well, so that He would have completed Helel into a creature that would never sin again. Had Helel chosen to obey God, Helel's free will would also have been completed. But Helel would not love God. God had known in advance that Helel would not love God[24], and God determined to prove His love by using Helel, who would choose to destroy himself, and after that God began the creation of the creation world. Because God had determined to perfect the free will of creatures with His love[25], until God's love is revealed to the creatures[26], God would have limited the free will of imperfect creatures through the light of truth to the extent that He would not violate the free will of the creatures. God is omnipotent[27], and He is the one who gives only tests that can be endured.[28] Because God is omnipotent[29], He can control every situation to be a test that can be endured, and because He respects creatures' free will, He allows even crime.[30] If God allows a creature to test beyond its endurance, that creature will have no choice but to sin. But Almighty God granted free will to His creatures. God's granting of free will to his creatures means that God allows creatures to overcome temptations if they wish. Nevertheless, Helel was corrupted.
Because if a creature does not know God's love, it will not be able to love God.[31] Therefore, until it knows the love of God, the creature is likely to sin, and if left as it is, it will surely sin. It is not because God's law cannot be kept[32], but because God's law is something that can only be kept when you know God's love and come to love God.[33] To love God is the law.[34] And creatures can only love God when they know the love of God.[35] Therefore, until they know God's love to the extent that sin is impossible[36], God will give each of His creatures the opportunity to choose whether to obey God and want to know God's love, or reject God and not want to know His love. A lot of grace will be allowed, but the creatures will have to choose for themselves.[37] God will pour out more grace to a creature who has chosen to receive more grace.[38] However, God will give limited grace to creatures who rejected grace by their own will.[39] In any case, God will not violate the free will of each creature. Also, there is no change in the fact that even a creature who chooses to receive more grace has no choice but to die if God does not give him grace.[40] Therefore, a creature who has received more grace cannot boast of himself that he has received more grace by his own merits or choices.[41] He has no choice but to thank the Creator for giving His life to him, who is bound to die.[42] If there are any creatures who consider the choice to love their Creator to be their righteousness[43], they will be refusing themselves of the grace that God pours out because of such pride and self-rightiousness.[44] If they continue to harbor such pride, they will eventually be cut off from God because they reject God's grace.[45]
God gave the creatures free will to make them aware of God's love and to call them into God's love. God created creatures to be happiest when they are in God's love.[46] God gave angels and humans the free will to love or hate God. God informs creatures of the consequences of each choice, but does not infringe upon individual choices.[47] God allows only the tests that can be endured to all creatures that are granted free will[48] and if the creatures love their Creator, He will allow them to pass the test.[49] All creatures who are granted free will face a situation in which they must choose whether to love God or hate God by their own will. And they must decide their own destiny by their own will and are responsible for the consequences of their choices.[50]
It is true that the love revealed by God through the cross perfects the free will of creatures, but the love does not eliminate the possibility to sin for all creatures. Only the free will of the creatures who chose to accept the love of the cross is completed, and only these creatures can escape judgment and have eternal life.[51] Only creatures who accept the Son[52] accept the love of the cross.[53] Only those who love the commandments and hate evil accept the Son who rules by commandments of love.[54]
Helel rebelled, rejected the commandments of love, and rejected the Son who rules over the creation world with love and justice.[55] Rather than accepting the love of God that the Son would reveal through the cross[56], Helel confirmed his wrong choice by killing the Son on the cross using those who rejected the commandments and did not obey the Son's reign.[57] The love of the cross has no meaning to guilty angels and humans who reject the Son.[58] They have no intention of returning to the Son who rules by the commandments.[59] They do not recognize the Creator, only themselves are God and commandment.[60]
Although we are frail creatures who will someday sin if we do not know and accept God's love, not all creatures accept God's love and become strong.[61] All creatures who have been given free will must choose whether to accept or reject the Son. Only the free will of the creatures who accept the Son is completed. Helel chose to reject the Son. Before God created Helel, God knew all the choices of each and every creature that He would give free will. God began creation after determining to perfect the free will of the creatures who accept the Son and confirm the judgment of the creatures who reject the Son, using each of those choices.[62]
Hence, Helel was also a creature who someday had no choice but to sin without knowing the love of God, however, he was not a creature whose free will could be perfected with the love of God which can only be known through obeying the Son.[63] At the crossroads of choice that all creatures granted free will must stand, despite a test that every creature can bear, Helel was a creature who would surely choose to reject the Son. Even if God might have created someone else who would have sinned before Helel, Helel was a creature who would stand on the side of the criminal, not on the side of the Son. And God determined to use this choice of Satan fraudswarms.[64] Because even creatures who will accept the Son will eventually commit crimes if they are left as they are, God determined to use this Satan fraudswarms as a tool to perfect the free will of the creatures that would belong to God and after that He began creation.
[1] 1Cor.10:13 No temptation has taken you but such as man can bear. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
[2] Luke20:13 The lord of the vineyard said, 'What shall I do? I will send my beloved son. It may be that seeing him, they will respect him.' "But when the farmers saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, 'This is the heir. Come, let's kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.' They threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him. What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do to them?
[3] Rom.3:5 But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what will we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak like men do. May it never be! For then how will God judge the world?
[4] 2Pet.3:9 The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but is patient with us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
[5] Rom.8:29 For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.
[6] Jer.1:5 Before I formed you in the belly I knew you, and before you came forth out of the womb I sanctified you; I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.
[7] Matt.26:24 The Son of Man will go just as it is written about him. But woe to that man who betrays the Son of Man! It would be better for him if he had not been born."
[8] Gen.4:7 If you do well, will it not be lifted up? If you don't do well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire is for you, but you are to rule over it."
[9] Rom.8:13 For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
[10] Luke22:22 The Son of Man will go as it has been decreed, but woe to that man who betrays him."
[11] Matt.27:3 When Judas, who had betrayed him, saw that Jesus was condemned, he was seized with remorse and returned the thirty silver coins to the chief priests and the elders. "I have sinned," he said, "for I have betrayed innocent blood." "What is that to us?" they replied. "That's your responsibility." So Judas threw the money into the temple and left. Then he went away and hanged himself.
[12] Matt.26:24 The Son of Man will go just as it is written about him. But woe to that man who betrays the Son of Man! It would be better for him if he had not been born."
[13] John10:17 Therefore the Father loves me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again. No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down by myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. I received this commandment from my Father."
[14] John19:10 Pilate therefore said to him, "Aren't you speaking to me? Don't you know that I have power to release you, and have power to crucify you?" Jesus answered, "You would have no power at all against me, unless it were given to you from above. Therefore he who delivered me to you has greater sin."
[15] Is.53:10 Yet it pleased Yahweh to bruise him; he has put him to grief: when you shall make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see [his] seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of Yahweh shall prosper in his hand.
[16] Mark12:6 "He had one left to send, a son, whom he loved. He sent him last of all, saying, 'They will respect my son.' "But the tenants said to one another, 'This is the heir. Come, let's kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.' So they took him and killed him, and threw him out of the vineyard. "What then will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and kill those tenants and give the vineyard to others.
[17] John6:38 For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me. And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all that he has given me, but raise them up at the last day.
[18] Rom.3:7 For if the truth of God through my lie abounded to his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner? Why not (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), "Let us do evil, that good may come?" Those who say so are justly condemned.
[19] Matt.18:7 "Woe to the world because of occasions of stumbling! For it must be that the occasions come, but woe to that person through whom the occasion comes!
[20] James1:13 Let no man say when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God," for God can't be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one. But each one is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.
[21] Col.1:20 and through him to reconcile all things to himself, having made peace through the blood of his cross. Through him, I say, whether things on the earth, or things in the heavens.
[22] Job25:5 Behold, even the moon has no brightness, And the stars are not pure in his sight; How much less man, who is a worm! The son of man, who is a worm!"
Job34:18 Who says to a king, 'Vile!' Or to nobles, 'Wicked!'
[23] Gen.20:6 God said to him in the dream, "Yes, I know that in the integrity of your heart you have done this, and I also withheld you from sinning against me. Therefore I didn't allow you to touch her.
[24] Jer.1:5 Before I formed you in the belly I knew you, and before you came forth out of the womb I sanctified you; I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.
[25] John13:34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another.
[26] Rom.5:8 But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
[27] Matt.10:29 "Aren't two sparrows sold for an assarion? Not one of them falls on the ground apart from your Father's will,
[28] 1Cor.10:13 No temptation has taken you but such as man can bear. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
[29] Rev.1:8 "I am the Alpha and the Omega," says the Lord God, "who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty."
[30] Rom.1:28 Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting; backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, without understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, unforgiving, unmerciful; who, knowing the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also approve of those who practice them.
[31] 1John4:10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
[32] 1John5:3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.
[33] John14:15 If you love me, keep my commandments.
[34] 2John1:6 This is love, that we should walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, even as you heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.
John15:12 "This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.
[35] 2Cor.5:14 For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died. He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.
[36] Song8:6 Set me as a seal on your heart, As a seal on your arm; For love is strong as death. Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol; Its flashes are flashes of fire, A very flame of Yahweh. Many waters can't quench love, Neither can floods drown it. If a man would give all the wealth of his house for love, He would be utterly scorned. Friends
[37] 2Cor.6:1 Working together, we entreat also that you not receive the grace of God in vain, for he says, "At an acceptable time I listened to you, In a day of salvation I helped you." Behold, now is the acceptable time. Behold, now is the day of salvation.
[38] Prov.8:17 I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will find me.
James4:6 But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."
[39] Matt.13:14 In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says, 'By hearing you will hear, And will in no way understand; Seeing you will see, And will in no way perceive: For this people's heart has grown callous, Their ears are dull of hearing, They have closed their eyes; Or else perhaps they might perceive with their eyes, Hear with their ears, Understand with their heart, And should turn again; And I would heal them.' "But blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears, for they hear.
Rom.9:18 So then, he has mercy on whom he desires, and he hardens whom he desires.
[40] Rom.11:6 And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.
1Cor.4:7 For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn't receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?
Job34:14 If he set his heart on himself, If he gathered to himself his spirit and his breath; All flesh would perish together, And man would turn again to dust.
Acts17:28 'For in him we live, and move, and have our being.' As some of your own poets have said, 'For we are also his offspring.'
[41] Eph.2:8 for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, that no one would boast.
[42] 1Cor.15:10 But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was bestowed on me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
[43] Deut.9:4 Don't speak in your heart, after that Yahweh your God has thrust them out from before you, saying, For my righteousness Yahweh has brought me in to possess this land; whereas for the wickedness of these nations Yahweh does drive them out from before you. Not for your righteousness, or for the uprightness of your heart, do you go in to possess their land; but for the wickedness of these nations Yahweh your God does drive them out from before you, and that he may establish the word which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. Know therefore, that Yahweh your God doesn't give you this good land to possess it for your righteousness; for you are a stiff-necked people.
[44] Rom.10:1 Brothers, my heart's desire and my prayer to God is for Israel, that they may be saved. For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. For being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn't subject themselves to the righteousness of God.
Luke18:11 The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: 'God, I thank you, that I am not like the rest of men, extortioners, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all that I get.'
[45] Rom.9:30 What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who didn't follow after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith; but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, didn't arrive at the law of righteousness. Why? Because they didn't seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling stone; even as it is written, "Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offense; And no one who believes in him will be put to shame."
[46] Deut.33:29 Happy are you, Israel: Who is like you, a people saved by Yahweh, The shield of your help, The sword of your excellency! Your enemies shall submit themselves to you; You shall tread on their high places.
Ps.33:12 Blessed is the nation whose God is Yahweh, The people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance.
Ps.84:11 For Yahweh God is a sun and a shield. Yahweh will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.
[47] Rom.1:28 Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;
[48] 1Cor.10:13 No temptation has taken you but such as man can bear. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
[49] Rom.8:35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? As it is written: "For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered." No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
[50] Jer.2:19 Your own wickedness shall correct you, and your backsliding shall reprove you: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and a bitter, that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, and that my fear is not in you, says the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts.
[51] Rom.6:22 But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life.
Gal.6:8 The one who sows to please his sinful nature, from that nature will reap destruction; the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.
[52] John10:27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.
1John5:20 We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
[53] John3:35 The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand. One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won't see life, but the wrath of God remains on him."
1John5:11 The testimony is this, that God gave to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He who has the Son has the life. He who doesn't have God's Son doesn't have the life.
[54] John12:50 I know that his commandment is eternal life. The things therefore which I speak, even as the Father has said to me, so I speak."
John17:2 even as you gave him authority over all flesh, that to all whom you have given him, he will give eternal life. This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.
[55] Ps.89:14 Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne. Lovingkindness and truth go before your face.
[56] Rom.5:8 But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
[57] John19:10 Pilate therefore said to him, "Aren't you speaking to me? Don't you know that I have power to release you, and have power to crucify you?" Jesus answered, "You would have no power at all against me, unless it were given to you from above. Therefore he who delivered me to you has greater sin."
[58] Heb.10:28 A man who disregards Moses' law dies without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses. How much worse punishment, do you think, will he be judged worthy of, who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?
[59] John3:19 This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil. For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn't come to the light, lest his works would be exposed. But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God."
[60] Gen.3:4 The serpent said to the woman, "You won't surely die, for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."
[61] Song8:6 Set me as a seal on your heart, As a seal on your arm; For love is strong as death. Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol; Its flashes are flashes of fire, A very flame of Yahweh. Many waters can't quench love, Neither can floods drown it. If a man would give all the wealth of his house for love, He would be utterly scorned. Friends
[62] Rom.9:17 For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, "For this very purpose I caused you to be raised up, that I might show in you my power, and that my name might be published abroad in all the earth." So then, he has mercy on whom he desires, and he hardens whom he desires. You will say then to me, "Why does he still find fault? For who withstands his will?" But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, "Why did you make me like this?" Or hasn't the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel for honor, and another for dishonor? What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath made for destruction, and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory,
[63] 1John5:2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments. For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments.
[64] Prov.16:4 Yahweh has made everything for its own end -- Yes, even the wicked for the day of evil.https://youtu.be/AupisuARmgQ?feature=shared
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