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Question/Objection to the Gospel of Jesus Christ # 9: "Doesn't an If/Then Scenerio imply free will?"

John 6:63 It is the Spirit which quickens, the flesh profits nothing: the words which I have spoken unto you are spirit and are life.

Once again, the Word of God is not 'holy information'. It/He is spirit and life. According to fallen human emotional intelligence a Speech which creates (and according to the speech of sin, "IF such a Speech existed"...as sin always posits theory/uncertainty and does not Speak life and spirit) must always take the emotional form of a declarative. But God is not a man, even a perfect man or a fallen human being and is not in any way limited by the deceptions under which fallen man suffers.

In the speech of sin, which, in the providence of God has manufactured what is fallen emotional intelligence and must stay within the bounds of its own manufacture, any act of speech carries with it an imperative to be understood. The particular imperative/witchcraft of the "If/Then" (elsewhere than by the Word/Speech of God) is spoken to imply free will and is purposefully spoken to imply free will and to seem to validate something that in fact doesn't exist. Therefore it is a lie compounding a lie. To read God's Word as if it were mere information is in fact to be deceived by sin in seeing God's Word completely within the rubric/lie of fallen human emotional intelligence and seeking to validate that supposed intelligence by bringing to God's Word that very fallenness as if that 'intelligence' were infallible and of absolute necessity to understand all reality (as if there was only one heart, one intelligence and one speech in total reality by which reality was 'interpreted' so as to provide fodder for personal choice...) rather than to draw near to God's Word to hear Life.

Expressly such speech and actions of sin imply God has ceased to Speak as spirit and life and now 'we' must interpret "God's information" for and by ourselves--in sin's supposed emotional intelligence.

What then is the creation/spirit/life of "If/Then"?

Prophecy. God is declaring a condition that must be satisfied in order that an event come into being, in order that something that is not yet become realized to all those being addressed (not simply those who are immediately spoken to...). The free will lie/speech-of-sin immediately then seeks to fulfill that condition in the heart of the fallen man as a mere emotional target as if it could bring into reality anything of itself and seeks to make senseless any truth of God which does not include itself as "free will".

But God, having set forth conditions, Himself fulfills every such condition as He sees fit and not always to the seeming emotional advantage of the fallen heart of man and not always to the seeming emotional disadvantage of the fallen heart of man, irrespective of sin's attempt to make God out to be a mere servant of the fallen heart of man in its attempt to force God and His truth to exist purely under the rubric/lie of 'emotional intelligence' of the one heart God made and assigned to fallen man.

God Himself satisfies every condition or does not as He sees fit in order that real, literal new creations in Jesus Christ understand as spirit and life that He holds their lives in His hand:

Isa 59:16,17 And he saw that there was no man, and he wondered that there was no intercessor; and his arm brought him salvation, and his righteousness, it sustained him. And he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on garments of vengeance clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloak.

Quite literally there was none that could do anything to satisfy ANY condition which God has spoken:

Isa 41:28,29 And I beheld, and there was no man; even among them, -- and there was no counsellor, that, when I asked of them, could answer a word. Behold, they are all vanity, their works are nought, their molten images are wind and emptiness.

Psa 14:2,3 Jehovah looked down from the heavens upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God. They have all gone aside, they are together become corrupt: there is none that doeth good, not even one.

But in death, deceived by sin all men seemed to be able to satisfy any condition which sin spoke for sin spoke "If/Then" expressly for the purpose of deceiving them. When they spoke (and speak) to each other it was and is the sin in them speaking through them to each other such things as it can seem to bring to pass without real and actual creation but mere manipulation of what is already created by God and deceive men that they are "free" to "do" whatever continually validates their fallen "emotional intelligence". Men, being deceived that all speech is the same and there is no Speech of God which creates and non-metaphorically births real, literal new creations in Jesus Christ then come to the Word of God and sin deceived them further that the rules of its own speech are applicable to all reality.

It is on this basis that many false teachers are spoken through by sin to --say-- that "The Bible is just a self-validating lie and none of it is true"--because they do not find validation for the lie of sin that all speech is equivalent but in fact find over and over that the only speech they speak is invalidated in every way. As well, other false teachers are spoken through by sin to --say-- that "Men must have free will because an If/Then scenerio proves it". They seek to validate their own speech of sin at all costs else they are demonstrated to those over whom they desire power to be liars. This continual attempt to validate the speech of sin by the accusation of sin that there is only one speech in all reality and that speech can create nothing will not stop until our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ returns. It has been given to Him and Him alone who is the true Word of God to Speak the final Word which ends the reign of sin on the earth. But He has given us vigilance and true sight to see the devices of the evil one. For we know who is the evil one and we know the speech of sin and we know that that speech is not of Christ but is indeed the anti-christ who will be falsely incarnate at the end of days as the false word of God, even as it masquerades as the true Word of God now in the 'exegesis' and 'scholarship' of systemitized lies that entrap the simple and all those who have not been born again in Jesus Christ.

Eph 4:11-15 and He has given some apostles, and some prophets, and some evangelists, and some shepherds and teachers, for the perfecting of the saints; with a view to [the] work of [the] ministry, with a view to the edifying of the body of Christ; until we all arrive at the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, at [the] full-grown man, at [the] measure of the stature of the fulness of the Christ; in order that we may be no longer babes, tossed and carried about by every wind of that teaching [which is] in the sleight of men, in unprincipled cunning with a view to systematized error; but, holding the truth in love, we may grow up to him in all things, who is the head, the Christ:

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Eph 4:21-25 if ye have heard him and been instructed in him according as truth is in Jesus; [namely] your having put off according to the former conversation the old man which corrupts itself according to the deceitful lusts; and being renewed in the spirit of your mind; and [your]having put on the new man, which according to God is created in truthful righteousness and holiness. Wherefore, having put off falsehood, speak truth every one with his neighbour, because we are members one of another.

In the Name of Jesus Christ, Amen