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Objection to the Gospel of Jesus Christ # 4: "Temptation doesn't make sense if I don't have free will."
Those who are not real, literal, new creations in Jesus Christ are never tempted. They are fallen in sin and sin continually in both speech and deed, despite the deception that some are not as heinous in the performance of vile lusts as others. Because men are fallen, they are deceived that they have free will and in this supposed free will make choices that are here good and there bad. Because men are fallen and deceived by sin, they are further deceived that what is evil is that which brings about negative emotions and that which is good brings about positive emotions. If good emotions prevail more often than bad they see no evil has been done. In no way does this excuse them from the genuine evil done through by sin. The speech of sinspeaks through these deceived, fallen persons as a presumption to say that they are tempted. But there is no such thing as being tempted to do what they naturally do.
Those who have been born again as real, literal, new creations in Jesus Christ are clothed in earthly taberacle which is inhabited by sin. The real, literal new creation in Jesus Christ is no longer part of their own flesh but are spirit. God explicitly says this:
1 Cor 6:17 But he that joined to the Lord is one Spirit.
Rom 6:6 knowing this, that our old man has been crucified with [him], (speaking of Jesus Christ, parenthisis mine) that the body of sin might be annulled, that we should no longer serve sin.
2 Cor 5:16 So that we henceforth know no one according to flesh; but if even we have known Christ according to flesh, yet now we know
John 4:24 God [is] a spirit; and they who worship him must worship
John 4:24 God [is] a spirit; and they who worship him must worship
Rom 8:9 But ye are not in flesh but in Spirit, if indeed God's Spirit dwell in you; but if any one has not [the] Spirit of Christ he is not of him:
Because we are no longer of the flesh but from above, that which in past times had rule over us (sin) desires to once again rule over us. But it is impossible that sin do so because we are real, literal new creation in Jesus Christ and no longer flesh. Temptation is that witchcraft and sorcery of Satan in sin that seeks to captivate our flesh for works of wickedness. Though it is unavoidable, in the providence of God that sin will at times work evil in our flesh and we will therefore fall to temptation, it is the sin that does this evil and NOT us as real, literal new creations in Jesus Christ.
As real, literal new creations in Jesus Christ we cannot sin. God explicitly says this as spirit and as life:
1 John 3:6-9 Whoever abides in him, does not sin: whoever sins, has not seen him or known him. Children, let no man lead you astray; he that practises righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous. He that practises sin is of the devil; for from
Again, God says as spirit and as life through His Holy Spirit through His apostle Paul concerning sin and his flesh doing evil acts which Paul in no way desired to do but yet were manifested in his flesh:
Rom 7:15 -20 For that which I do, I do not own: for not what I will, this I do; but what I hate, this I practise. But if what I do not will, this I practise, I consent to the law that [it is] right. Now then [it is] no longer I [that] do it, but the sin that dwells in me. For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, good does not dwell: for to will is there with me, but to do right [I find] not. For I do not practise the good that I will; but the evil I do not will, that I do. But if what I do not will, this I practise, [it is] no longer I [that] do it, but the sin that dwells in me.
God doesn't say our flesh will no longer sin as the sin in our flesh can't do anything but work evil after evil:
Rom 8:5-8 For they that are according to flesh mind the things of the flesh; and they that are according to Spirit, the things of the Spirit. For the mind of the flesh
So that being no longer flesh or having any part of our being derived from the flesh but instead being spirit which is clothed with a corrupt tabernacle:
Rom 7:22-8:1 For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man: but I see another law in my members, warring in opposition to the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which exists in my members. O wretched man that I (am)! who shall deliver me out of this body of death? I thank God, through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then I myself with the mind serve God's law; but with the flesh sin's law. [There is] then now no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus.
2 Cor 5:1-5 For we know that if our earthly tabernacle house be destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For indeed in this we groan, ardently desiring to have put on our house which [is] from heaven; if indeed being also clothed we shall not be found naked. For indeed we who are in the tabernacle groan, being burdened; while yet we do not wish to be unclothed, but clothed, that [what is] mortal may be swallowed up by life. Now he that has wrought us for this very thing
Temptation is then the flesh fighting against the Holy Spirit of God in us for control of the flesh in the lie that we are still of the flesh in an attempt to validate itself:
Gal 5:16-18 But I say, Walk in
What is being spoken in the sentence is "Temptation doesn't make sense if I don't have free will" is an attempt by sin to make out that its own words and being are the sole arbitor of truth and that in total reality only one speech exists--itself. Within the speech of sin and in those not born again temptation seems to be linked with free will as those who are not born again are spoken by sin to deny the reality of the new birth and the Creating Speech/Jesus Christ which birthed them. Sin in its deceived ones presumes through them that they can be good one moment and bad the next based on personal choice/free will and regard the speech that speaks 'bad choice' as a 'temptation' which to them is a delivery of useful and legitimate information by which their 'choices' are supposedly made. All temptation is exclusively power-lessness to the new creation in Jesus Christ.
But it is this very speech of power-lessness which is sin. Temptation itself is the attempt by non-creating speech to gain entrance to God, for God to accept death as an equal to Himself, for Creating Speech to live side by side with non-creating speech, life with death and light with darkness. Every act of speech of sin that speaks to God tempts Him. We are directly commanded by God in His Creating Speech/Himself/Jesus Christ not to tempt God.
Deu 6:16 Ye shall not tempt Jehovah your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.
Mat 4:5-7 Then the devil takes him to the holy city, and sets him upon the edge of the temple, and says to him, If thou be Son of God cast thyself down; for it is written, He shall give charge to his angels concerning thee, and on their hands shall they bear thee, lest in anywise thou strike thy foot against a stone. Jesus said to him, It is again written, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
God says of the speech of sin in front of us as new creations in Jesus Christ:
Psalm 16:4 Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another: their drink-offerings of blood will I not offer, and I will not take up their names into my lips.
Nah 1:13-15 And now will I break his yoke from off thee, and will burst thy bonds asunder. And Jehovah hath given commandment concerning thee, that no more of thy name be sown: out of the house of thy god will I cut off the graven image, and the molten image: I will prepare thy grave; for thou art vile. Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth glad tidings, that publisheth peace! Celebrate thy feasts, Judah, perform thy vows: for the wicked one shall no more pass through thee; he is utterly cut off.
Nah 2:13 .... and I will cut off thy prey from the earth; and the voice of thy messengers shall no more be heard.
Nah 3:19 There is no healing of thy breach; thy wound is grievous; all that hear the report of thee clap the hands over thee; for upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually?
Zep 3:9 For then will I turn to the peoples a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of Jehovah, to serve him with one consent.
Every act of speech of sin carries with it a seeming imperative to be understood. Therein is the sorcery and witchcraft of sin. (Witchcraft and sorcery is the attempt to bring what is not into being merely by an act of speech: to unsuccessfully create with speech) Sin has spoken a sentence, a word, you immediately think that it would not have made a sound or word order unless that word order or sound carried within it some intelligent thing that is useful to you. (... it seems rude (an emotional negative of the old fallen heart) to sin to say it speaks nothingness) That the speech of sin is vanity and a lie is to most, in their deceived fallen state, a theory that the sin in them continually 'tests' in order to grow the pride in them of being 'intellectually nimble' enough to see through a lie. But a lie to real, literal new creations in Jesus Christ is simply that which is not the Word of God and can create nothing. Quite literally and in every way with no exceptions to the real, literal new creation in Jesus Christ in whom dwells the Holy Spirit of God the speech of sin and the actions of sin make no sense whatsoever and say and do nothing intelligible or worthy of attention as that speech is a speech of vanity/unintelligiblity/worthlessness. For having once got our freedom from that very speech of sin and the deeds it wrought through us continually and knowing now in every way the lie it is and how it killed us and its only purpose is to expand itself perpetually in vanity, we now know in Christ it is in fact senseless and in fact vile. There is then no legitimacy to temptation at all such that a lie of its seeming legitimacy should be used by sin to do more witchcraft and sorcery and build false doctrines that say "we" have "free will".
Rom 5:1-5 Therefore having been justified on the principle of faith, we have peace towards God through our Lord Jesus Christ; by whom we have also access by faith into this favour in which we stand, and we boast in hope of the glory of God. And not only [that], but we also boast in tribulations, knowing that tribulation works endurance; and endurance, experience; and experience, hope; and hope does not make ashamed, because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by [the] Holy Spirit which has been given to us:
In the Name of Jesus Christ, Amen