Destined For Everlasting Life!

Initially, the title for this article was going to be “Destined To Die,” after all, we are all destined to die, right?

So, when you think about it, where is our free will if we are all destined to die? Doesn’t make much sense, does it?

Unless, of course, “Free will” only means we are free to do anything we want other than deciding whether we want to live or die. Is this too big of a decision to leave it to us, mere humans?

Free will is something that very few people seem to aware of and even fewer people are able to understand.

The apostle Paul (Romans 7:19 )nail it when he said “ I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate… For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out.”

In other words, Paul is saying that he has the desire but not the Free Will to do it.

Contrary to common belief, free will is not doing whatever we want to. Actually, it is just the opposite.

Think about it. Why is it that you do whatever it is that you do? It is either driven and/or conditioned intrinsically, e.g., your gut bacteria making you crave for something, and/or extrinsically e.g., keeping up with the Joneses.

Thus, we rarely exercise our free will.