Do You Get To Choose If You Follow God or Not?

The right to choose is free will.

Will means wish or desire and free means without cost. So free will sounds like getting what you desire without it costing you anything. The right to choose is the privilege of selecting for yourself. How could God give us free will since we know there's a price to pay if the choices we make are wrong?

And that is called, "the right to choose."

Your daughter rebelled because you were Preaching Your Will to her. Free will, would have let her choose, and THEN Experience the consequences. You were shoving YOUR will down her throat - is it any wonder she rebelled? Then she tried to teach you a lesson in child rearing by staying out, but it Looks like You Didn't Learn!

Free Will and Consequences. My daughter is 17 years old, I told her to come home by 11 tonight (the law) I told her if she did not come home, the car will be off limits, and not going to the mall with friends (the explanation of consequences) She decided to stay out at the friends house instead of coming home when I told her to (free will) She came home at 3:30 in the morning and was punished, no car, no friends. (consequences)

God did not give us free will. He gave us the right to choose.

I can live with that. G-d Knows that the Only way I can get into the Christian heaven is to lie. and I won't lie to G-d!

The choice you make is your own. However the Christian Heaven of paradise will not go away because you dont want to be there, you just wont if you choose to just not be there. The thing is with free choice or will, you are free to go anyway you choose. When God comes he is not looking for mans definition of Christianity, he is looking for his church and all of its members, so that they may be judged worthy to sit by his side in Heaven, those who dont accept the consequences.

It is not that way at all, it is choose to follow, and you will have everlasting life. The point Jesus made was should you as a Christian choose to follow him, you would be given everlasting life. He said that if you believe in him, you shall not perish, but you will have everlasting life.

Before I go on I just want to point out before becoming a Christian I was a Moslem, however, I was upset when I discovered that many of them dont believe everything they say. I would also like to point out that I was very upset about learning the story of Muhammed and all the really bad things about him. I converted later to Christianity, after years of looking for proof of both religions.

I dont know if how you choose to follow God is the issue but that you put your trust and faith in him, know that he is the way, and believe in his son. Otherwise I don't think that you need all the bells and whistles to follow God, you need a believing heart, be a decent person and choose of your own free will to be a follower of Christ.

You do know that people use Christian interchangeably however a Christian is and always will be a follower of the Christ. However, some people lump all people who follow God into one category, that is not really the true meaning. A Christian again is someone who follows the Christ. Which by the way is Jesus Christ.

Being a Christian all that is already included i dont think someone wont be called a Christian if they dont put their trust and faith in Him.and believe that Jesus Christ is way,the truth and the life.and by using my free will i am following his ONLY way.

Very true but I only disagree with one statement, every thing else is true. I believe we are all children of God, however like any family, there are many who disobey but they are still his creation.

If one is a child of God, he/she should have the same characteristics of God the Father. Unfortunately there are some whose characteristics are more like their father, the devil. Read the third chapter of First John.

Here is the thing, I live in the United States, everyone whether they are Christian or not, know the Gospel, because they either have been dragged off to church as children, or they have heard stories on television, and accidently watched a television evangelist, as well as through their kindly old gramma who says boy (or girl) you need to listen and read one of these tiny books so you can get the ideas of the bible. My work is not about those who have not heard the word, we are talking about those who have learned the truth and choose not to come to the Lord.

I want to follow what you said except it is a little all over the place. First of all of us is a child of God. No child will be left behind by God however, thinking adults who are able minded are the ones who have the choice of whether to be a believer or not. The way people look as God is from human terms. He does not need your approval, if you dont like it or dont believe will not change what he said. Its like this, if you decide you dont like the law that says you cant take other peoples possessions, just because you disagree and make a fuss and spout reasons why this is unjust, doesnt mean that if you are caught stealing that the law will change for you. God will and shall in the future expect you to make a concious decision of whether or not you want to follow him. If you decide not to then you are saying you dont want to and you accept the consequences. Accept this or not, whatever. No one now or ever has gone to hell because judgement day has not come yet, so no one has actually felt the wrath of God,Yet! However one day we all face judgment and on that day you will have your answer to who God is.

Man you dont believe in much is you dont believe in anyone who asks you to make a decision. If you go to the car dealership to buy a car do you tell the person selling it to you, oh just give me anyone because I dont like anyone who asks you to make a decision. However, whether or not you believe in God is up to you. The point here is that you choose. You have the choice, and any consequences that go along with it. If you walked down a crowded street and someone said there is a man dying and needs your help. And you are told that that man looked like your father,then asks do you want to save him. Then all you have to do is believe that I can save him, you decide. How would your decision making skills work then.

Absolutely, you have the right to choose whatever path you take, while I or another may think your path is wrong, your path is your own. I may if I truly care for you, share with you the benefit of knowing God and what his word says, but the Bible says to be discerning, which means dont believe what some peple say is true, believe in your heart that what you think is true is so. The truth is for me that God in his Grace has saved me by sending his son to die for my sins and his spirit to guide me on my way. Either way, he has made provisions for me to live by and I wholeheartedly made plans to do just that.

First of all I dont know about you but I was not taught from childhood what was good only in the name of God, I was taught what was right and wrong from my parents. Now God doesnt care whether or not I did good things or lived a great life, instead he look into your heart and find that you are a great person who happens to beleive

Only problem I see here, even with your great spirit and I am not saying that part is wrong for your because you have free will is that people do need to be a part of God's church whether they go to church or not. What people dont understand is that they were told by God that he will one day return for his church. He did not say which religion they should be, he did not say whether they called themselves Christians or not, and he did not say they needed to even go to a man's church. What he did say was that they needed to believe in him, follow his commandments, and believe in his son. No matter how many ways we say it or religions there are he has said so.