In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth (Genesis 1:1)

God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them (Genesis 1:27)

God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very good (Genesis 1:31)

"from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it you will surely die" (Genesis 2:17)

"I am God, and there is no other;
"[I am] God, and there is no one like Me,
"Declaring the end from the beginning,
"And from ancient times things which have not been done, Saying,
"'My purpose will be established,
"'And I will accomplish all My good pleasure'" (Isaiah 46:9-10)

Almighty God declares "the end from the beginning" (Isaiah 46:10)
1. The Word of God:
  1. reveals who God is (Genesis 1:1, Isaiah 45:7).
  2. exposes who man is (Genesis 1:26).
  3. declares the separation in sin (crime) by man against God (Psalm 14:2-3, Romans 3:10-18).
  4. expresses God's punishment for sinful man (Matthew 13:42).
  5. proclaims the good message of man's unearned love in Christ among men in whom God is pleased (Luke 2:14).
  6. heralds times and epochs, seasons and ages (eons), and age of ages (a.k.a. eternity) (Revelation 21:1-27; Revelation 22:1-5.
2. The Word of God is Jesus Christ, Lord and God (John 20:28)
3. Looking to the beginning for revelation about the end, this essay Biblically examines the Truth that is Life forevermore (John 14:6).
Man at the very beginning is missing attributes that God knew and knows. (John 21:17)
1. God created the tree of the knowledge of good and evil - exposing that God possesses both knowledge and ability
  AND God made humankind in the image and according to the likeness of God (Genesis 1:26 and Genesis 1:27)
  
  BUT man lacked attributes at the outset
  
  BECAUSE after eating from the tree "the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked" (Genesis 3:7)
  
  WHICH is a radical change from man's prior condition, "the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed" (Genesis 2:25)
  
  MOREOVER man lacked additional attribute
  
  BECAUSE God said "Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil; and now, he might stretch out his hand, and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever" (Genesis 3:22)
  
  YET it is not written that humankind was created/endowed with God's nature
  
  CONSEQUENTLY when God said "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness" (Genesis 1:26), God did generously provide for and limit humankind
2. God did generously provide attributes for man as well as withhold attributes from man
  Man's "Will" In Scripture Related To The Creation Account
  Despite the Creation account in Genesis 1-3 being silent about man's "will", there exists Apostolic teaching on the matter of man's "will" with regard to the creation account.
  Adam did not exercise willpower to disobey God's command not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (Genesis 2:16-17) for Paul wrote "the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly" (Romans 8:20, NASB); therefore, Adam did not make a choice, not a willing choice, to eat.
  A "choice" by Adam is explicitly excluded by using scripture with scripture referencing, in fact, "the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly" (Romans 8:20, KJV), so Adam acted not willingly but rather acted subject to vanity in his eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
  "Not willingly" indicates "not choice".
  Some people may claim that Paul was referring to a timeframe exclusively after what they call "the fall" (after Adam ate of the tree [Genesis 3:6]), but the continuity of the passage of Romans 8:20-22 must be taken as a whole.
  Paul left no room for disputing to the timeframe for which "not willingly" applies, for Paul also wrote "we know that the whole creation groans and suffers the pains of childbirth together until now" (Romans 8:22), and the phrase "until now" is the timeframe's most recent limiting factor which means that all times prior to "now" are included, so "the whole creation" includes the moment after God breathed into Adam's nostrils the breath of life (Genesis 2:7) until Adam ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (Genesis 3:6); therefore, we can be certain that Paul includes the timeframe that Adam ate of the tree in the travailing/groaning because Paul wrote of all of this in the same passage, i.e. Romans 8:20-22.
  An Event Driven Review of Romans 8:20-22
  Presenting an event driven review of Paul's writing "the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers the pains of childbirth together until now" (Romans 8:20-22) and the creation account and more recorded in Genesis:
  - See "until now" (Romans 8:22) indicates all time prior to the Apostle Paul for he wrote "the whole creation" (Romans 8:22), as in "the whole creation" "until now".
  - See the serpent was in the garden tempting Eve (Genesis 3:1-5) before Adam ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (Genesis 3:6).
  - See "subjected to futility" (Romans 8:20) as the serpent's futility of lying to Eve with "You surely will not die" (Genesis 3:4) - before Adam or Eve ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (Genesis 3:6), yet Adam and Eve died (Genesis 5:5, Genesis 7:21 none of mankind, besides the 8 [Genesis 7:7 and 1 Peter 3:20], survived the flood, so Eve had to be dead).
  - See "not willingly" (Romans 8:20) applies to Adam eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (Genesis 3:6) for the Word of God specifically attributed the cause of Adam eating of the tree as "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat from it'" (Genesis 3:17), so here God reveals for Adam the cause (listen to wife) and the effect (eat of tree); therefore, eating of the tree was "not willingly" (Romans 8:20).
  Paul includes the "not willingly" (Romans 8:20-22) to apply to the time that Adam ate of the tree (Genesis 3:6).
  A Refutation Of "Not willing is a choice to disobey" Regarding Romans 8:20
  [QUOTE="Mr. G Lee, post: 1827464, member: 15301"] Not willing is a choice to disobey.
  What kind of will did Adam have that made him choose to obey the voice as a stranger a creature seen and not that of the voice of the unseen God?. Did he even have a will . Did he hunger?. . Who told him to eat or multiply or ladies first. The spirit of anarchy? the spirit of confusion.
  1 Corinthians 14:33For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints [/QUOTE]
  A person chooses willingly, whether willing obedience or willing disobedience; in other words, a person's will drives the person's choice, and this fact is crucial to this discourse about Adam's action of eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
  Bearing in mind this crucial fact while we examine your writing, all of these statements are valid:
  - A choice to disobey is a willing to disobey.
  - A choice to not obey is a choice to disobey (an equivalent of "A choice to disobey is a choice to disobey", essentially, the first bullet item).
  - A choice to disobey willingly.
  - Willingly is a choice to disobey.
  - Not willingly is not a choice to disobey.
  - Willing is a choice to disobey.
  - Not willing is not a choice to disobey.
  Behold that your:
  Not willing is a choice to disobey
  is a woefully invalid statement which disassociates the "will" from the "choice" as demonstrated by the crucial fact:
  Willing is a choice to disobey
  but let's look at where your woeful statement leads.
  Adam's "choice to disobey" is "Not willing" according to you and @wondering and @Corinth77777 (the last two of you by your "Like" of Mr. G Lee's post signifies agreement with his post content thus you assume his post content as your own), so your post's opening sentence breaks the crucial fact established above, so your post's opening thought is confused fiction.
  "God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all assembles of the holy ones" (The Apostle Paul, 1 Corinthians 14:33). You concluded your post with this verse.
  The type of will that Adam had is irrelevant because the Apostle Paul dismissed Adam's type of will with regard to Adam's action of eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil:
  the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it in hope that the creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God for we know that the whole creation groans and suffers the pains of childbirth together until now
  (Romans 8:20-22).
  
  See that Adam acted per this Scripture "and he ate" (Genesis 3:6), no mention of "choose" per your quoted thoughts resulting in "and he did choose to eat", but strictly action is recorded for Adam; therefore, you are not in accord with Scripture.
  You all have added to the Word of God with your belief that Adam's will "made him choose to obey the voice" which results in "Because you did choose to listen to the voice of your wife, and did choose to eat from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat from it'"; in contrast, the pure Word of God pronounces "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat from it'" (Genesis 3:17) with absolutely no reference to your "choose" by Adam's will.
  
  The True Grammar of Romans 8:20
  Paul wrote "the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it, in hope" (Romans 8:20).
  See, the conjunction "but" splits the Romans 8:20 complex sentence into two clauses.
  The first clause is the independent clause capable of standing alone as a sentence, such that "the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly",
  Paul's use of Greek grammar specifically associates the Greek inflective noun "creation" with the the Greek inflective word "willingly"! Both "willingly" (Strong's 1635 - ἑκοῦσα - willingly) and "creation" (Strong's 2937 - κτίσις - creation) are Nominative/Feminine/Singular, so herein lies the absolute binding of "willingly" with "creation", not God bound to "not willingly" as per actual free-willian's word of "God did not will it" regarding Romans 8:20, but in Truth (John 14:6) "the creation" is concretely adhered to "not willingly" by Paul's language.
  The result is that we find that Paul modifies the verb phrase "was subjected" with the adverbial phrase "not willingly", so the full verb phrase is "was not willingly subjected".
  The sentence subject of "the creation" performed the action (verb) of the sentence "was not willingly subjected" then comes the sentence prepositional phrase containing the direct object "to futility" associated with the sentence subject object.
  We know the sentence subject of "the creation" (Romans 8:20) refers to man, including Adam, because in the next verse "that the creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God" (Romans 8:21).
  So, "the creation" in Romans 8:20 refers to the same "the creation" in Romans 8:21; therefore, since man exclusively becomes the "children of God" (Romans 8:21) (beasts and birds do not become children of God), then "the creation" in Romans 8:20 includes Adam and his wife.
  Now, it is permissible to perform word substitution with Paul's writing in Romans 8:20, such that:
  - "the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly" (Romans 8:20).
  - "Adam was not willingly subjected to futility" (accurate English translation of Romans 8:20).
  If Adam chose "out of his own free will" (actual free-willian's word) to eat of the tree forbidden as food, then the result is "Adam was willingly subjected to futility" which contradicts Paul's writing.
  The Apostle Paul eliminates Adam's will in relation to Adam eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; therefore, Adam did not use a purported free-will to eat of that tree.
  Adam is not a proof of man having a free-will to choose toward God, after all, Adam, the man of flesh, disobeyed God by eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil - that disobedience of Adam was Adam moving away from God.
  Unlike your thoughts of including Adam's will to "choose", the Apostle Paul excluded Adam's will to "choose" before your thoughts existed by his writing "the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly" (Romans 8:20).
  BUT the Word of God expressed man's "act" which was to eat the fruit of the tree (Genesis 3:6, the second portion)
  
  WHILE simultaneously the Word is silent about man's "will" in the Creation account (Genesis 1-3)
  
  YET Scripture records man's "lust" with
  When the woman saw that the tree was good for food,
  and that it was a delight to the eyes,
  and that the tree was desirable to make [one] wise (Genesis 3:6, the first portion)
  
  AND in Genesis 3:6, the first portion precedes the second portion
  
  THUS the "lust" precedes the "act"
  
  AND the "act" precedes the punishment (Genesis 3:8-24)
  
  THEREFORE the "lust" precedes the punishment
  
  SO the "lust" occurred in man when man's state was between being created and the punishment, that is pre-punishment (see also examining the word "desirable" in Genesis 3:6)
3. God's commands expose man's attribute to "act" or man's attribute not to "act"
  OR, written another way, God reveals man's ability "to do" something or man's ability "not to do" something
  
  SO God distinguishes an "act", or actions, within commands
  
  BUT God excludes explicit reference to decision or choice in commands
  
  AND Lord Jesus declared "Do you not understand that everything that goes into the mouth passes into the stomach, and is eliminated? But the things that proceed out of the mouth come from the heart" (Matthew 15:17-18).
  
  AND a variety of muscles within the human body act to produce atmospheric vibration which results in sounds that can be interpreted as words then aggragated together into communication
  
  SO when a person speaks, a person acts
  
  YET Jesus did not say "when a person decides to speak"
  
  NOR did He say "you are able to choose to speak"
  
  RATHER Jesus did say "the things that proceed out of the mouth come from the heart" (Matthew 15:18)
  
  THEREFORE a person's heart acts
  
  THUS fruit is produced
  
  AND Lord Jesus declared "where your treasure is, there your heart will be also" (Matthew 6:21)
  
  AND the Holy Spirit is precious treasure (John 3:3-8, John 16:7-14)
  
  AND the Spirit of the Living God produces fruit in us believers - the Spirit of Truth is required for us believers to have good fruit (John 15:5, Galatians 5:22-23)
  
  AND Lord Jesus declared "there is no good tree which produces bad fruit, nor, on the other hand, a bad tree which produces good fruit. For each tree is known by its own fruit. For men do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they pick grapes from a briar bush. The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth what is good; and the evil [man] out of the evil [treasure] brings forth what is evil; for his mouth speaks from that which fills his heart" (Matthew 6:43-45).
  
  SO like Jesus, we believers must do the will of Our Father (Matthew 6:10, more about this later in "Lord Jesus is focused on the will of God")
  
  FOR we believers are not better than Jesus (Matthew 10:24)
  
  AS evidenced by the fact that we believers act in accord with the will of Our Father in heaven by the power of the Spirit
  
  NOT stagger to and fro in autonomous "free will" which is truly "self will" as the unrighteous do (Amos 8:12, Philemon 1:14 and 2 Peter 2:9-10 quoted below)
  
  BUT the love of Christ controls us believers (2 Corinthians 5:14)
  1. "from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat" is a command of action to refrain and abstain
  2. "You shall not steal" is a command of action to refrain and abstinence (Exodus 20:15)
  3. "Seek" is a command of action to execute and engage (Matthew 7:7)
4. The attribute of man being created in the image according to the likeness of God
  
  God Declares The Cause And Effect For Adam Eating Of The Forbidden Tree
  After Adam ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (Genesis 3:6), to Adam, God said "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat from it'; Cursed is the ground because of you; In toil you will eat of it All the days of your life. Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you; And you will eat the plants of the field; By the sweat of your face You will eat bread, Till you return to the ground, Because from it you were taken; For you are dust, And to dust you shall return." (Genesis 3:17-19)
  The word "because" inherently indicates cause in (Genesis 3:17), and the word "because" is the first word that God said to Adam in Genesis 3:17-19.
  God declares the cause as being that Adam listened to the voice of his wife.
  God LITERALLY stated that the CAUSE was Adam LISTENED to Adam's wife's voice; moveover, free will choice is NOT included as a CAUSE; therefore, the Apostle Paul's conveyance that Adam "not willingly" ate of the tree (Romans 8:20) is in accord with the recorded Word of God in Genesis 3:17 (This sidebar examines Paul's writing in Romans 8:20-22 as related to the creating account in Genesis chapters 1 to 3).
  God declares the effect as being that the ground would be cursed because of Adam as well as to dust Adam would return.
  Eve's Word, Adam Listened
  The Word of God pronounced something very interesting to Adam, "Because you listened to the voice of your wife" (Genesis 3:17) as evidentiary motivation of Adam for eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
  In advance of this pronouncement, we find Adam "with her" (Genesis 3:6), Adam's wife, when she uttered her only recorded words in the Bible prior to eating of the tree forbidden as food. She added "or touch it" (Genesis 3:3) to the Word of God "Of every tree of the garden eating thou dost eat; and of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, thou dost not eat of it, for in the day of thine eating of it -- dying thou dost die" (Genesis 2:16-17, YLT).
  So, Adam listened to hia wife's saying to the serpent "God has said, 'You shall not eat from it or touch it, or you will die.'" (Genesis 3:3).
  And, Adam was right there when she touched the tree, yet he did not see her die right there on the spot (Genesis 3:6).
  Additionally, Adam was right there after she touched the tree when she proceeded to eat of the tree, yet he did not see her die, drop dead, there on the spot (Genesis 3:6).
  Adam was with the Woman when she said "you will die" (Genesis 3:3) at the time that she subtracted "in the day" (Genesis 2:16-17) from the Word of God.
  Instead of reciting the Word of God, the Woman adulterated the Word of God such that her word (recorded in Genesis 3:2-3) appeared to fail to come to pass with Adam witnessing her disobedience of God's command, then, after witnessing her action of eating, it is written of Adam "and he ate" (Genesis 3:6).
  In the creation account, God reveals that Eve's adulteration resulted in deadly consequences, yet her word appears to be innocuous to so very many people.
  In a manner similar to Adam's wife, Free-will Philosophers adulterate the Word of God, even in the creation account - in the image and likeness of Eve.
  For example, free-willians convey that Adam "chose" to listen to his wife, so, in effect, they preach "Because you chose to listen to the voice of your wife", despite the Truth (John 14:6) that the Hebrew word בָּחר (Strong's 977 - bachar - choose and it's conjugates) is absent from the entirety of the creation account throughout Genesis chapters 1-5.
  No free-will, no "choose" in Genesis 2:16-17.
  No free-will "choose" in Genesis 3:3.
  No free-will in Genesis 3:6.
  No "chose" in Genesis 3:17.
  No Scripture states man was imparted free-will.
  The consequence for free-willians adding "choose" to the Word of God are the same as Adam with Eve.
  
  WITH a targeted result of logical deductive reasoning leveraging compare and contrast of attributes/facilities
  
  SINCE Adam was made in the image according to the likeness of God (Genesis 1:26)
  
  THEN some persons of the creation (creatures) argue that specific facility was given to Adam
  
  IN particular God willpowering purported "free will" into man, specifically a free will into man in the likeness God's will, during the creation of Adam (see also examining the words "freewill offering" in the Old Testament)
  
  THEN Adam could not have used free will to perform evil against God
  
  BECAUSE God will not use willpower in order to perform evil against God's self (Psalm 5:4, Psalm 92:15, Deuteronomy 32:4)
  
  THEREFORE it follows that Man could not use free will in order to perform evil against God
  
  COMPARITIVELY this point's basis conveys that Adam who was made in the likeness of God (Genesis 1:26) could not use an Adam's will created by God inside Adam which is a duplicate of God's will (likeness of God's will) because God's will won't work against God so then Adams will could not work against God and since Adam disobeyed God, it is with certainty that the attribute of Adam's will was not made a duplicate of God's will (likeness of God's will).
  1. The logical extension of free will on this basis results in man possessing expanded facilities beyond God's facilities
  2. God is Creator; on the other hand, man is creature
  3. Largely, I use free will to mean man choosing toward God, emphatically Lord Jesus Christ.
  4. Scripture does not include the mention of God endowing Adam with free will.
  5. Man's free will is a precept of man (Matthew 15:9)
5. Adam as part of God's Plan of Redemption through the Christ for mankind before the foundation of the world (see also the meaning of the word "world" in the New Testament)
  SINCE God saw creation was very good on the 6th Day (Genesis 1:31)
  
  AND God's Plan of Redemption through the Christ for mankind is good (Ephesians 1:1-14, Ephesians 2:13)
  
  AND no person can thwart God's Plan (Isaiah 14:27, Isaiah 46:11)
  
  THEN a free will Adam could not have been roaming the Garden of Eden with the ability to choose to obey God's command not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (Genesis 2:17)
  
  SINCE the only command carrying a punishment was the prohibition upon Adam against eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil
  
  THUS a free will Adam could have disrupted God's Plan of Redemption through the Christ for mankind
  
  SO God could not conclude with certainty by declaring everything was good on the sixth day with a free will Adam in control roaming the Garden of Eden
  
  THEREFORE it follows that Adam could not be endowed with the attribute of free will
6. The timeline of Adam knowing good and evil
  
  Did God's Plan A Fail - Forcing God To Spontaneously Develop Plan B?
  According to the "good Adam" teaching, God had an original plan for Adam to live forever in the paradise on earth where Adam was made, and it is just termed the Good Plan until Adam ate the fruit.
  I equate "spiritually alive", "upright", "perfect", "righteous" and the like with "good" for the purposes of this sidebar.
  Advocating the "good Adam" precept advocates the concept of good people converting to evil people; in other words, a GOOD Adam conquering a GOOD command of God in order to convert to an EVIL Adam.
  The "good Adam" precept goes with the GOOD God being surprised by the GOOD Adam destroying the GOOD God's GOOD Plan A of the GOOD Adam living forever in God's GOOD paradise, so the GOOD God in a panic abandoned the GOOD Plan A to develop a GOOD Plan B to expel the EVIL Adam from paradise into a CURSED land with the GOOD promise of a Redeemer. The GOOD Plan A stopped being GOOD Plan A, so that means GOOD Plan A converted to EVIL plan A since the GOOD Adam caused GOOD Plan A to error out.
  So, the "good Adam" precept conveys that God unwittingly created everything only to have it catastrophically crumble right in front of God. By the hand of man taken away from God. With God at the mercy of man. Unmercy perhaps being a better word.
  This means GOOD God produced an imperfect plan, formerly GOOD Plan A now EVIL plan A; in other words, the GOOD God's GOOD Plan A failed with a spiritually alive Adam lost to be spiritually dead; in other words , the "good Adam" precept has it that GOOD Adam thwarted GOOD God, so GOOD God was too small to preserve GOOD Plan A, so GOOD God converted to EVIL god (this is following to where the "good Adam" precept leads), and EVIL god was incapable of preserving a spiritually alive person.
  See that the "good Adam" precept has man snatching the "very good" of creation right out of God's hand; not only that, the man acts self-destructively during the snatching.
  The "good Adam" precept has a good man doing the action of an evil man, so that is not a good man.
  The "good Adam" doctrine leads to a different god than revealed by the Word of God.
  The "good Adam" precept grossly distorts good and evil. The "good Adam" precept is confusion in the knowledge of good and evil.
  In conclusion, the supporters of the "good Adam" precept advocate for good people converting to evil people which is absent from the entirety of the scripture; on the other hand, the Word of God is replete with God converting evil people into good people in Christ.
  Moreover, God is good, and God's Way is good. Man is evil, yet God works all things out for good for the man of God's Way.
  In actuality, with God there is no plan B - God is mightier than that. God's plan for the Redemption of Mankind through the Christ succeeds and is victorious, and this is God's plan before the foundation of the world.
  
  BEFORE Adam and Eve ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil
  
  THEN Adam and Eve knew not good and evil
  
  AFTER Adam and Eve ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil
  
  THEN Adam and Eve knew good and evil
  
  FOR the delineation is clarified when God said "Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil" (Genesis 3:22)
  
  YET based on the Word of God saying "has become" recorded in Genesis 3:22
  
  THEN Adam did not know good and evil before eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil
  
  SO Adam did not know good and evil when God issued the command "from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it you will surely die!" (Genesis 2:17)
  
  THEREFORE at the time of eating, Adam listened (perceived) and followed the last that he heard about the tree of the knowledge of good and evil
  
  WHICH Adam heard from Eve
  
  FOR God said "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat from it'" (Genesis 3:17)
  
  SO Adam listened to Eve and Adam ate from the tree prior to knowing good and evil
  
  AND a person does good by obeying God; on the other hand, a person does evil by disobeying God
  
  SO free will choosing of good or choosing of evil is not the context
  
  AND action is the context
  
  SINCE good and evil are not known to Adam prior to eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil
  
  THEREFORE it follows that Adam was not endowed with the attribute of free will
7. An inherently good Adam would have assuredly and absolutely excluded eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil
  To people who think the creation account (Genesis 1-3) shows that Eve believed the serpent and chose to eat based upon her own free will,
  The word "believed" does not occur in the creation account - nor does "believed" appear anywhere else in Scripture in relation to Eve.
  Eve was deceived, not convinced, for Paul wrote of Eve "the woman, having been deceived, has come into transgression" (1 Timothy 2:14).
  Eve was in the flesh because Adam said "This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; She shall be called woman, because she was taken out of man" (Genesis 2:23).
  Deception is a state of being for people in the flesh, and the flesh is against God for Paul wrote "the flesh desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh. For these are opposed to one another" (Galatians 5:17), so this means that "those who are in the flesh cannot please God" (Romans 8:8) - not even to choose God.
  Eve was made in the image according to the likeness of God (Genesis 1:26), and God created Eve without her knowing good and evil, yet God knew what good and evil was when God created Eve, so Eve was not created with all of God's attributes.
  God willpowering purported "free will" into Eve, specifically a free will into Eve in the likeness God's will, during the creation of Eve means that Eve could not have used free will to perform evil against God because God will not use willpower in order to perform evil against God's self (Psalm 5:4, Psalm 92:15, Deuteronomy 32:4); THEREFORE, it follows that Eve could not use such a free will in order to perform evil against God. This sounds a lot like Romans 8:20 as pointed out in this sidebar.
  "I, YHWH your God, am a jealous God" (Exodus 20:5) says the Word of God, and the Word of God says "I will not give My glory to another" (Isaiah 42:8), so God jealously reserves the glory for man's salvation to God alone (Psalm 3:8, John 3:3-8, John 3:21, John 6:29).
  Man in man's flesh jealously glorifies the man, and it is here that we find a corollary attribute between Eve and God - see that Eve jealously engaged in self glorification.
  God converts man (Matthew 18:3) for thus says the Lord "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God" (John 3:3), so then man seeks God's glory just as Jesus exemplifies to us Christians (John 6:38).
  Your deceptions listed
  - your heart evilly adds "believed" into the creation account - even into the Word of God,
  - your heart evilly thinks the flesh is capable of pleasing God,
  - your heart evilly pits your postulated God-like "free-will" for Eve against God,
  - your heart evilly seeks self glorification with your thoughts "I chose to believe in Jesus", and
  - your heart evilly redirects glory from God unto man in the eyes of the world - you are a thief, so you are an offense to the ministry of God (2 Corinthians 6:3).
  YOU ARE WAY, WAY SPIRITUALLY OFF THE TARGET ABOUT EVE!!!
  The devil, the serpent in the creation account, is steeped in deception for the King of Glory says "You are of [your] father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own [nature], for he is a liar and the father of lies" (John 8:44).
  You are in the flesh in a state of deception thinking that you are saved from the wrath of God to come.
  BECAUSE an inherently good Adam would have acted in the good way of obedience to God's command (Genesis 2:16-17)
  
  WITH the good way being God's Way (John 14:6)
  
  YET "No one is good except God alone" (Mark 10:18)
  
  AND it is written "God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day" (Genesis 1:31)
  
  NOTE in "it was very good", the word "it" is grammatically a third person singular thus referring to the entirety of creation being constructed well (good) on course with God's Plan of Redemption through the Christ for mankind before the foundation of the world (Ephesians 1:1-14, Ephesians 2:13)
  
  YET the word "it" is not third person plural in "it was very good" as in "they were very good" of which a third person plural is required in order to refer to an individual such as Adam or the Devil the Serpent
  
  AND the Word of God specifically excludes Adam from being good with "No one is good except God alone" (Mark 10:18)
  
  SO the spirit of antichrist preaches that Adam with all mankind as good for any amount of time thus nullifying the need for the Savior
  
  BEHOLD that God saw the whole package, the complete creation, the "all" that He had made, that it was very good
  
  BUT God did not specify how the aggregate (all) that He had made was very good therein
  
  AND God did not specify any constituents of creation as being inherently good therein
  
  AND God creating "all that He had made" for God in Jesus Christ to come to earth to save evil man is very good
  
  SO with certainty, God's Plan of Redemption through the Christ for mankind before the foundation of the world is very good
  
  IN other words, if Adam was inherently good, then he could not have eaten from the tree the knowledge of good and evil
  
  BECAUSE it would have been impossible for an inherently good Adam to disobey God's command of not eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil
  
  SINCE an inherently good Adam would have been the embodiment of obedience of God's command not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil
  
  AND an inherently good Adam would have unquestionably refrained from eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil without him having the knowledge of good and evil (Genesis 3:22)
  
  THEREFORE an inherently good Adam would have done the opposite of good by eating of the tree the knowledge of good and evil (Genesis 3:6)
  
  SO an inherently good Adam would have unavoidably avoided eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
  
  BUT there is none righteous, not one (Psalm 143:2, Romans 3:10)
  
  AND there is none who does good, there is not even one (Psalm 53:3, Romans 3:12)
  
  SO there was no inherently good Adam
8. Adam was evil before he ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil
  The Timeline Of Adam Eating The Fruit - Marking Chronological Milestones
  I'm going to do an exercise in chronological time dilation with "she took from its fruit and ate; and she gave also to her husband with her, and he ate" (Genesis 3:6), and I'm going to use present tense for illustrative purposes. The actions of Adam and Eve may not be the precisely accurate, but it serves for illustrative purposes.
  TIME MARK ALEPH: Eve takes of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
  - The "Adam is good" precept of man (Matthew 15:9).
  - The "Adam is evil" precept of God (Genesis 2:23).
  TIME MARK BEYT: Eve swings her arm toward her mouth as her mouth is opening to take a eat.
  - The "Adam is good" precept of man (Matthew 15:9).
  - The "Adam is evil" precept of God (Genesis 2:23).
  TIME MARK GIMAL: Eve bites and eats the fruit.
  - The "Adam is good" precept of man (Matthew 15:9).
  - The "Adam is evil" precept of God (Genesis 2:23).
  TIME MARK DALET: Eve extends her hand containing the fruit toward Adam's hand.
  - The "Adam is good" precept of man (Matthew 15:9).
  - The "Adam is evil" precept of God (Genesis 2:23).
  TIME MARK HEY: Adam receives the fruit in his hand, and Eve withdraws her hand.
  - The "Adam is good" precept of man (Matthew 15:9).
  - The "Adam is evil" precept of God (Genesis 2:23).
  TIME MARK VAV: Adam swings his hand with the fruit in it 25% of the way to his mouth.
  - The "Adam is good" precept of man (Matthew 15:9).
  - The "Adam is evil" precept of God (Genesis 2:23).
  TIME MARK ZAYIN: Adam continues swinging his hand with the fruit in it, and now he has it 50% of the way to his mouth, and Adam is fully aware of God's command not to eat of the fruit (Genesis 2:16-17).
  - The "Adam is good" precept of man (Matthew 15:9).
  - The "Adam is evil" precept of God (Genesis 2:23).
  TIME MARK CHET: Adam gets the forbidden fruit to 75% of the way to his mouth, and he starts opening his mouth in preparation to eat the forbidden fruit.
  - The "Adam is good" precept of man (Matthew 15:9).
  - The "Adam is evil" precept of God (Genesis 2:23).
  TIME MARK TET: Adam now has the forbidden fruit threee millimeters from his mouth, but the fruit has not touched his lips, teeth, nor tongue.
  - The "Adam is good" precept of man (Matthew 15:9).
  - The "Adam is evil" precept of God (Genesis 2:23).
  TIME MARK YUD: Adam starts contracting his muscles to close his mouth around the forbidden fruit in order to eat the fruit, but his mouth is still not in contact with the fruit.
  - The "Adam is good" precept of man (Matthew 15:9).
  - The "Adam is evil" precept of God (Genesis 2:23).
  TIME MARK KAPH: Adam's mouth comes in contact with the fruit and he bites and he eats the forbidden fruit in disobedience to God's command (Genesis 2:16-17).
  - The "Adam is evil" sudden contrajuxtaposition of the "Adam is good" precept of man (Matthew 15:9).
  - The "Adam is evil" precept of God (Genesis 2:23), and Adam becomes aware that he is evil, that is, aware of his flesh (Genesis 3:7).
  From TIME MARK VAV up to and including TIME MARK YUD, the precept of man defines Adam as good because he had not actually eaten the forbidden fruit, yet the intent to eat of the fruit was in his heart.
  Of benefit, the Word of God says wrong desire of the heart is sufficient for sin to occur (Matthew 5:28).
  This chronological time dilation illustration represents a valuable spiritual truth. Adam was not good before he ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil because if Adam had been good then Adam would have obeyed God's command not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
  A couple of intructional points from the creation account are:
  - left to his own devices, man defies God
  - man fell out of ignorance about being evil in his flesh
  BECAUSE the Word of God says "No one is good except God alone" (Mark 10:18)
  
  SO Adam did what evil does, that is, disobey God, that is, Adam ate the fruit (Genesis 3:6)
  
  BECAUSE Adam was formed by God as flesh (Genesis 2:7 and Genesis 2:23)
  
  AND it is written "the flesh desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh. For these are opposed to one another" (Galatians 5:17)
  
  AND it is written "the mind of the flesh is hostile toward God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able [to do so], and those who are in the flesh cannot please God" (Romans 8:7-8)
  
  THEREFORE "very good" could not be referring to Adam's inherent condition in "God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day" (Genesis 1:31)
  
  BUT "very good" does refer to God's Plan of Redemption through the Christ for mankind
  
  SO Adam had a bond-will, not a free-will
9. Discerning the difference between creative act and human predisposition
  1. Adam was created good (Genesis 1:31), but Adam was not created to be good (Genesis 3:6)
  2. The creative act by God was good, i.e. well done
  3. Adam was formed good by God
    BUT Adam's condition was evil
  4. God's creative act of forming Adam was good, but the creative act must be distinguished from Adam's condition, his nature
    1. A good behaving Adam does good to follow God's command, so this would be an inherently good Adam
    2. An evil behaving Adam does evil by disobeying God's command, so this would be an inherently evil Adam
  5. Since Adam disobeyed God's command, then Adam was inherently evil before he ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil
  6. No choice was indicated for an evil Adam in "and he ate" (Genesis 3:6)
  7. Adam did the evil behavior in Adam's bond will
10. The pattern of "sight" around the time that Adam ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil
  AND these quotations are provided in sequential order - that is chronolgically accurate
  1. God's only command that carried a punishment was "from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it you will surely die" (Genesis 2:17)
    SEE the command and punishment are pronounced first
  2. "the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed" (Genesis 2:25)
    SEE that Adam and Eve were naked and they were unashamed in their "sight"
  3. "The serpent said to the woman, 'You surely will not die! For God knows that in the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.'" (Genesis 3:4-5)
    SEE the word "eyes"
  4. "When the woman saw that the tree was good for food" (Genesis 3:6)
    SEE the word "saw"
  5. "and that it was a delight to the eyes" (Genesis 3:6)
    SEE the word "eyes"
  6. "and that the tree was desirable to make [one] wise, she took from its fruit and ate; and she gave also to her husband with her, and he ate" (Genesis 3:6)
    SEE that Adam and Eve ate of the tree that was forbidden in the only command that carried a punishment
  7. "Then the eyes of both of them were opened" (Genesis 3:7)
    SEE the word "eyes"
  8. "and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loin coverings" (Genesis 3:7)
    SEE that Adam and Eve tried to conceal themselves, a first stage using fig leaves
  9. "They heard the sound of YHWH God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of YHWH God among the trees of the garden" (Genesis 3:8)
    SEE that Adam and Eve tried to conceal themselves, a second stage using the trees of the garden
    
    BUT during this second stage they tried to hide themselves from God's "sight"
  10. The visual acuity aspect of "sight" is VERY clear in the creation account
  11. These perceptive aspects of "sight" are VERY clear in the creation account (see also examining the word "saw" in Genesis 3:6)
    - "attention"
    - "thought"
    - "focal point"
  12. Linguistically, logically, and spiritually, "sight" in context indicates visual acuity and perception within the creation account
11. A comparison of Adam and Eve taking to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (Genesis 3:6) versus men and women receiving "all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge" in Christ (Colossians 2:2-3):
  1. Man saw himself as evil after eating the fruit, so he hid from God (Genesis 3:6-8).
  2. God creates evil for it is written "I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things" (Isaiah 45:7).
  3. God creates the wicked for it is also written "The LORD has made everything for its own purpose, Even the wicked for the day of evil" (Proverbs 16:4).
  4. At the time of eating the fruit, the pre-existing condition of evil in Adam (1 Corinthians 15:47) resulted in Adam eating the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
  5. Adam eating of the fruit was scripturally an action, not a choice, an action, and it was the only action of disobedience among God's commands in the creation account that carried a penalty presented to Adam (Genesis 2:16-17) (see also accuracy of the words "may", "freely", "surely", "eat", and "die" in Genesis 2:16-17 evaluated according to linguistics).
  6. Adam Was Not The Only Evil Actor Recorded In The Creation Account
    All the angels cheered at the foundation of the Earth (Job 38:4-7), so the angels existed at the time of the Earth's creation.
    Angels were created, and the devil is a fallen angel (Isaiah 14:11-15, Revelation 12:7-9), and the devil is the serpent of old (Revelation 20:2) mentioned in the creation account (Genesis 3:1).
    This means that an evil angel existed prior to the time that Adam ate of the fruit (Genesis 3:6).
    As scripturally outlined in this essay, Adam was evil.
    In the creation account, an evil devil and an evil Adam are revealed.
    So, when "God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very good" (Genesis 1:31) during the creation account, at that time God perceived that God's Plan of Redemption through the Christ was successfully proceeding, that is, "very good".
    After eating the fruit, the continuing condition of Adam was revealed to Adam, and that condition was evil, and Adam's wickedness was nakedly exposed, and Adam and Eve tried to cover themesleves and they tried to hide themselves (Genesis 3:7-8).
  7. "All the treasures of wisdom and knowledge" are in Christ (Colossians 2:2-3)!
  8. The knowledge of good is that Christ does it all in man's salvation, and men and women are the impotent recipients of the great and kind gift of God, for the Apostle Paul wrote:
    "When you were dead in your transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our transgressions, having canceled out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us, which was hostile to us; and He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross." (Colossians 2:13-14)
  9. Evil men and women try to steal God's glorious saving grace by way of such people claiming to "choose" the good of Christ, even though such people are clearly in an evil condition - them being incapable of knowing "all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge" in Christ without the intervention of the Christ (John 15:16, John 15:19)!
  10. Adam acted according to his evil nature, that is, Adam took God's fruit and Adam ate the fruit - for Adam could not choose toward God; consequently, today's men and women act according to their evil nature, that is, they claim to take God's fruit and they try to consume the fruit claiming the fruit as their own "choice" - for they cannot choose toward Jesus Christ according to the Word of God (John 15:16, John 15:19).
12. The attribute of "joining" - marriage
  
  God's Perseverance Of The Saints
  These words of Lord Jesus "let no man separate" (Mark 10:6-9) refer to God's imparted endurance of believers to the end (Matthew 10:22)
  Jesus speaks of this persistence of the holy ones with "My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me; and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand. My Father, who has given [them] to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch [them] out of the Father's hand. I and the Father are one" (John 10:27-30).
  And, the Lord includes all believers in all time for He says "I have other sheep, which are not of this fold; I must bring them also, and they will hear My voice; and they will become one flock [with] one Pastor" (John 10:16).
  Therefore, Lord Jesus says of His "sheep" (John 10:27) and His "other sheep" (John 10:16) that "no one will snatch them out of My hand" (John 10:27).
  And followers of the Way (John 14:6) believe Lord Jesus for He is the Word of God (John 1:14).
  When God promises "no man" (Mark 10:6-9) or "no one" (John 10:27-30), then God means it!
  Behold, testimony of the Power of God (1 Corinthians 1:24).
  1. Lord Jesus says a topically very profound statement of "from the beginning of creation, [God] made them male and female. For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother, and the two shall become one flesh; so they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together let no man separate." (Mark 10:6-9)
  2. "God has joined together" is a clear reference by Jesus to Christ and the Bride of Christ
  3. "God has joined together" is a clear reference by Jesus to marriage between "male and female" (creatures both)
  4. "God has joined together" is a clear reference by Jesus to Adam and Eve, the man and the woman
  5. God does the joining, while, on the other hand, man and woman are only the joyful recipients
  6. The facility of "joining" is not attributed to man and/or woman
  7. The facility of "joining" is attributed to God
God issued prophecy about man eating the fruit (Genesis 2:17)
God Knows All Things Amplifies The Meaning Of The Hebrew Word כִּ֗י (ki) In Genesis 2:17
God knows all things (John 16:30, John 21:17, Psalm 139:1-18, Psalm 94:11, Hebrews 4:13, Matthew 6:8)
- This means that nothing less than what God knows "will happen" will come to pass
- Simultaneously, this also means that nothing more than what God knows "will happen." will come to pass
This includes the meaning that man is subject to God's knowing all things
Contraints on happenings include:
- That which God knows "will happen" cannot be avoided
- That which God knows "will happen" absolutely must come to pass
God's foreknowledge is not dependent on man.
With the children of God, God's foreknowledge is an intimate affair extended by God to man (Romans 8:29-30, 1 Peter 1:1-2)
The word "foreknowledge" defines as:
- prior knowledge
- knowledge that precedes something
- knowing before an event
God knows temporal events before the events occur. The word "foreknowledge" brings a temporal sense to God's knowledge that elmininates an "outside of time" scope of all things happening simultaneously.
Written another way, the word "foreknowledge" makes reference to events and things in "time" because of the prefix "fore" means "before" thus "time" reference is included, yet "timelessness" is NOT included because of the "before" context of "foreknowledge".
The word כִּ֗י(ki)/"for"/"when" in Genesis 2:17 is an indication of God knowing beforehand (foreknowledge) of Adam's failure to obey the command in this command clause of "from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat" (Genesis 2:17), and this command is immediately followed by the כִּ֗י(ki)/"for"/"when" in the punishment indication clause of "for in the day that you eat from it you will surely die" (Genesis 2:17).
God knew beforehand that Adam would eat of the tree because God used the word כִּ֗י(ki)/"for"/"when" in Genesis 2:17.
On a related note to "foreknowledge", please see this scripturally accurate sidebar examining the statement "God is outside of time" and the claim "God's plans have already happened in eternity".
AT the time God commanded the man, Adam, not to eat of the tree

AND the consequence of disobedience is declared - that is that death of the man would result in eating from the tree

YET a command does not convey ability (see also God's Commands Distinguished From Man's Ability)

BUT the language contains a prophetic construct indicating assurance of occurrence - "for in the day that you eat" - the "for" is promissory

NOT a conditional logic construct such as "if in the day that you eat"

IN fact, the English word "for" is translated from the Hebrew word כִּ֗י (ki)

AND the Hebrew word כִּ֗י (ki) contains the meanings of these English words "that", "for", "when" (Strong's Hebrew: 3588. כִּ֗י (ki) -- that, for, when)

THEREFORE the word "when" fits where the word "for" resides in Genesis 2:17

THUS the phrase "when in the day that you eat" is an accurate translation for Genesis 2:17 (see also cross-referenceing the Hebrew word כִּ֗י [ki] definition via scripture with scripture providing the proof that [1] the translation deficiency of the word "if" for the Hebrew word כִּ֗י [ki] and [2] the translation efficiency of the word "when" for the Hebrew word כִּ֗י [ki] respecting the early chapters of Genesis)

SO this confirms the promissory nature, the prophecy of man eating the fruit, with the word "for"/"when" in Genesis 2:17

AND this imposes contextual certainty indicating God's foreknowledge over the matter described in Genesis 2:17

SO there is no free will indicated for Adam

AND the firm fact is established

THAT God reigns in the affairs of man (Daniel 4:34-35)

Then YHWH God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him." (Genesis 2:18)

So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then He took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh at that place. The LORD God fashioned into a woman the rib which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man (Genesis 2:21-22)

The Creation account contains a picture of Christ and His Assembly (Genesis 1-3, Ephesians 5:22-32)
The Word of God and relationships established within the Holy Bible
1. Of the TaNaKh, the Apostle Paul wrote "For whatever was written in earlier times was written for our instruction, so that through perseverance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope" (Romans 15:4)
  AND with respect to the Law, the Torah, the Apostle Peter said "Now therefore why do you put God to the test by placing upon the neck of the disciples a yoke which neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear?" (Acts 15:10, related to Ezekiel 20:15)
  
  AND Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy comprise the Torah (the five books of Moses)
  
  AND the Torah (Teaching/Law), the Nevi'im (Prophets), and Ketuvim (Writings) comprise the TaNaKh (a Jewish acronym, roughly the same as the "Old Testament")
  
  AND YHWH God provides wondrously plentiful "Thus says YHWH" in the TaNaKh
  
  SO the apostles explain the Law
  
  AND the yoke of the Law could not be bore by people per Peter
  
  AND the Law is for our instruction per Paul
2. Pictures in the Bible consist of
  1. a foreshadow pointing at the substance
  2. a type pointing at the antitype
  3. the form of things pointing at the factor of things
  4. a shadow pointing at the reality
  5. foreshadow, type, form of things, and shadow are synonyms
  6. substance, antitype, factor of things, and reality are synonyms
3. Clearly identifying the shadow and the reality
  1. Of the man, Adam, it is written he "is a type of Him who was to come" (Romans 5:14)
    AND "The first man is from the earth, earthy" (1 Corinthians 15:47)
    
    SO Adam is the type/shadow
  2. Of the Man, Christ, it is written "He made Him who knew no sin [to be] sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him" (2 Corinthians 5:21)
    AND "the second man is from heaven" (1 Corinthians 15:47)
    
    SO Jesus Christ is the antitype/reality
4. A further set of scripture that references shadow and substance
  1. "the Law, since it has only a shadow of the good things to come and not the very form of these realities" (Hebrews 10:1)
  2. "things which are a mere shadow of what is to come; but the substance belongs to Christ" (Colossians 2:17)
The man's rib (side) is a foreshadow of the Living Water as Christ spoke (John 4:5-26, John 3:3-8):
1. Of Adam:
  1. It is written "Then YHWH God said, 'It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him.'" (Genesis 2:18)
  2. It is further written "So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then He took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh at that place. The LORD God fashioned into a woman the rib which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man" (Genesis 2:21-22)
2. Of Christ:
  1. Christ speaks of the Holy Spirit which believers in Jesus receive with His words of "the Scripture said, 'From his innermost being will flow rivers of living water'" (John 7:38-39)
  2. one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out (John 19:34)
The Word declares provocative foreshadow about "brought" pointing to the substance of "draws"
1. God "brought her to the man"
  AND the man, Adam, ate the fruit
  
  AFTER the woman, Eve, ate the fruit
  
  SO Adam, the husband, was removed from the Garden with Eve (Genesis 3:23, Genesis 4:1)
  
  AND Eve, the wife, was not alone
  
  SO this is the form of things
2. Extracting the illustration with the form of things while the factor of things illuminates
  1. Adam was the form of good to come
    SEE Adam ate the fruit in disobedience to God
    
    THUS his wife was not alone
  2. Jesus is the factor being the good
    SEE Jesus took on the sins of we believers
    
    THUS His Wife is not alone
3. Adam, the shadow, did not abandon his wife the woman which mirrors that Jesus, the reality, does not abandon His Bride the woman
  1. the account of Eve taking the fruit
    THEN eating the fruit
    
    THEN giving the fruit to Adam
    
    WHICH fruit also Adam ate
    
    AND Adam and Eve were together outside the garden
    
    AND God designated the woman for the man Adam
    
    AND the man Adam did not abandon the woman Eve
    
    THIS is a shadow
  2. God foreknew Jesus before the foundation of the world (1 Peter 1:19-20)
    AND God's foreknowledge and predestined plan are clearly visible from the beginning (Acts 2:23, Isaiah 46:10)
    
    AND Jesus and the Bride of Christ, the Assembly of God, are together forevermore in love and joy on Earth and in heaven (Revelation 19:7, Revelation 21:9, John 15:5)
    
    AND God designates we people of the Bride of Christ for the Man Jesus Christ (Matthew 22:1-14)
    
    AND the Man Jesus does not abandon His Bride - the Assembly of God
    
    THIS is the reality
4. God "draws" the Father's chosen persons to the Son
God illustrates a type with the making of the helper, the woman, who is suitable for the man, Adam, reflecting the antitype of God's Assembly for the Man Jesus
AND God used the words "I will make him a helper" (Genesis 2:18)

SO Adam, the man, was not alone⁺

BECAUSE God fashioned the woman from the man's rib which God had taken from the man (Genesis 2:22)

SO a part of the man was used to fashion the woman - the woman came from man⁺⁺

AND Adam and Eve were one flesh (Genesis 2:24-25)

NOW delving into the antitype, God creates us individuals in salvation (James 1:18)

AND God conforms us to the image of Christ Jesus in sanctification (Romans 8:29)

AND in all this God contributes we individuals to the building of God's Temple (1 Peter 2:5)

we the pillars and buttresses (Revelation 3:12, 1 Timothy 3:15)

we the body of Christ (Romans 12:5)

we the bride of Christ (Matthew 22:1-14)

we the wife of Christ (Revelation 21:9)

we the woman

He the Man

SO the Man, Jesus, is not alone^#

SO the Man, Jesus, and the woman, the Assembly of God, are one (John 17:21, John 17:23)

AS the Father and the Son are one

THUS the God, Jesus, builds His body^##

AND God establishes blessed, loving, and glorious unity

⁺ and ^# see how these two points are related as foreshadow and substance respectively

⁺⁺ and ^## see how these two points are related as foreshadow and substance respectively
Eve's punishment as a shadow and the Bride of Christ's persecution in the world as the reality
1. Of Eve:
  1. It is written "To the woman He said,
    'I will greatly multiply
    
    Your pain in childbirth,
    
    In pain you will bring forth children;
    
    Yet your desire will be for your husband,
    
    And he will rule over you.'" (Genesis 3:16).
  2. It is prophetic, Eve will bring forth children
  3. It is prophetic, Eve will desire for Adam
  4. It is prophetic, Adam will rule over Eve
  5. Eve is the shadow
2. Of the Bride of Christ:
  1. Christ speaks "Blessed are those who have been persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are you when [people] insult you and persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of Me. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward in heaven is great; for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you" (Matthew 5:10-12)
  2. Christ speaks "I will send to them prophets and apostles, and [some] of them they will kill and [some] they will persecute" (Luke 11:49)
  3. Christ speaks "You will be hated by all because of My name, but it is the one who has endured to the end who will be saved" (Matthew 10:22)
  4. Christ speaks "All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age" (Matthew 28:18-20)
  5. It is prophetic, the Bride of Christ proclaims the Word of God while children of God are born of the Spirit (John 3:3-8)
  6. It is prophetic, the Bride of Christ desires Jesus Christ
  7. It is prophetic, Jesus Christ rules over the Bride of Christ
  8. The Bride of Christ is the reality
God said "Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil; and now, he might stretch out his hand, and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever" (Genesis 3:22)
THEN God "drove the man out; and at the east of the garden of Eden He stationed the cherubim and the flaming sword which turned every direction to guard the way to the tree of life" (Genesis 3:24)

AND God used the verb "take" with the noun phrase of "the tree of life"

THEN followed by cherubim and flaming sword guarding the way to "the tree of life"

AND man was separated from "the tree of life"

YET Lord Jesus is the Life (John 14:6)

AND the True Vine (John 15:1)

AND the Light (John 1:4, John 9:5)

AND the fruit of the Spirit of God in man who practices the truth comes to the Light that his deeds may be manifested as having been wrought in God (John 3:21)

SO man comes to the Light because of the act of God

LIKEWISE man comes to Life because of the act of God

THEREFORE God causes reconciliation between God and man.
The Sovereignty of God in the salvation of mankind is manifest in the creation account for Lord Jesus said "Have you not read that He who created [them] from the beginning made them male and female, and said, 'for this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh'? So they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate" (Matthew 19:4-6)

This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that YHWH God made earth and heaven. (Genesis 2:4)

The Creation account is litrally true in history.
AND the Creation account is a foreshadow of God's Plan of salvation

AS this prophecy clearly states "YHWH God said to the serpent":
I will put enmity between you and the woman,
And between your seed and her seed;
He shall bruise you on the head,
And you shall bruise him on the heel (Genesis 3:15)

WITH the bruise on the Christ's heel at the cross

WITH the bruise on the devil's head being the Risen Christ overcoming death in resurrection glory

THEREFORE God's plan for the redemption of humankind through the promised Christ (Messiah) from the beginning is very good (Genesis 3:15, Genesis 1:31, and rib explanation above)

FURTHERMORE in exclusive power and unilateral might God created the woman out of the man without the woman's consent^*

FOR the benefit of the man (Genesis 2:18)

SO it goes with the Bride of Christ for the Christ - God acts graciously and mercifully according to God's good pleasure to add individuals to God's Kingdom (Revelation 4:11)
^* for that matter, God created the man without the man's consent too
YET this contributes to proof of God's exclusive power and unilateral might

BUT it does not detract from the prophecy discussed

AFTER all, Jesus the eternal Word of God became flesh (John 1:14)

BY the woman named Mary who was found to be with child by the Spirit of God (Matthew 1:18)

CRUCIALLY resulting in the incarnate Lord Jesus Christ

BEING fully Man based on the woman

BEING fully God based on the Holy Spirit

CRITICALLY this beloved Jesus overcame death at the cross to give eternal life to all who believe in Him by the Word (Acts 4:29-32)

THEREFORE the serpent bruised Lord Jesus on His Heel (Acts 4:27-28, 1 John 5:19)

AND victoriously Lord and Savior Jesus bruised the serpent on his head (Acts 2:23-24, Acts 2:38)

MOREOVER Mighty God put on flesh of man as Christ Jesus

AND fulfilled prophecy

AND the first man is from the earth, earthy (1 Corinthians 15:47)

AND the first man is Adam

AND the first man had a point in time to become flesh

AND the second Man had a point in time to become flesh

AND the second Man is from heaven (1 Corinthians 15:47)

YET the second Man is eternal God

AND the second Man is the only propitiation for men to God (1 John 2:2)

AND the second Man is the only mediator between men and God (1 Timothy 2:5)

AND the second Man is Jesus Christ, Son of Man, Son of God

SEE the foreshadow and substance:
foreshadow) Adam, the husband, had a point in time to become flesh that preceded the woman, Eve, the wife

substance) Jesus Christ had a point in time to become flesh that precedes the Bride of Christ (Colossians 1:15, Colossians 1:18)

The Names in the Geneaology of Noah Before the Flood

SEE the Gospel of Christ when the definitions are read columnar wise.

             Name            Definition
             ----            ----------
             Adam            Man
             Seth            Appointed
             Enos            Mortal
             Cainan          Sorrow
             Mahalaleel      The Blessed God
             Jared           Shall Come Down
             Enoch           Proclaiming
             Methuselah      His Death shall Bring
             Lamech          The Despairing
             Noah            Rest

Christ, foreknown before the foundation of the world, but has appeared in these last times for the sake of you who through Him are believers in God, who raised Him from the dead and gave Him glory, so that the faith of you and hope are in God, the souls of you having purified in the obedience to the truth through Spirit, into a sincere love of the brethren (1 Peter 1:19-22, see also God Purifies Souls, an exposition of 1 Peter 1:21-22 and 1 John 3:3)

"Father, I desire that they also, whom You have given Me, be with Me where I am, so that they may see My glory which You have given Me, for You loved Me before the foundation of the world" (John 17:24)

this [Man], delivered over by the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God, you nailed to a cross by the hands of godless men and put [Him] to death (Acts 2:23)

All who dwell on the earth will worship him, [everyone] whose name has not been written in the book of life of the Lamb who has been slain from the foundation of the world (Revelation 13:8, see also Grammatical Structure Of Revelation 13:8)

"The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is about to come up out of the abyss and go to destruction. And those who dwell on the earth, whose name has not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, will wonder when they see the beast, that he was and is not and will come" (Revelation 17:8)

nothing unclean, and no one who practices abomination and lying, shall ever come into it, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb's book of life (Revelation 21:27)

"Then the King will say to those on His right, 'Come, you who are blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world'" (Matthew 25:34)

"Nevertheless do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are recorded in heaven." (Luke 10:20)

Lord Jesus Christ was foreknown before the foundation of the world
1. He was delivered over by the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God to be sacrified for the redemption of Christ's Bride
  AND we individuals that comprise Christ's Bride, God knows us from the foundation of the world - God knows us by name
  
  THEREFORE God possesses a predetermined set of people to enter into God's joy as well as to be saved from the wrath of God
2. Behold, the Lamb's Book of Life written from the foundation of the world contains all the names of we people saved and to be saved in all time
  1. The verb used to describe the action of writing the Lamb's Book of Life is past tense
  2. The verb used is "written"
  3. The verb is not "being written"
    THUS the verb is not a contemporary action
  4. The verb is "written"
    THUS the verb denotes a completed action
3. There is no indication that the Lamb's Book of Life has been edited
  1. "I will not erase his name from the book of life, and I will confess his name before My Father and before His angels" (Revelation 3:5)
  2. This is a promise
  3. This is future tense not indicating an action that has occurred - notice the word "will"
  4. This is encouragement
Will, as in willpower/volition, is addressed in Scripture
AND the Apostle John wrote of the exclusive will of God by which all things were created

AND the fruit of we believers is to do the will of God for our Wonderful Savior Jesus is our Example

YET for mankind, a tightly-coupled relationship exists between "self will" and "free will"

AND the Apostle Peter recorded self will as condemnation

AND the Apostle Paul recorded free will as illusory

AND the "self will" and "free will" are the ONLY mentions of each in the New Testament
1. The Apostle Peter wrote "the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from temptation, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment, and especially those who indulge the flesh in its corrupt desires and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they do not tremble when they revile angelic majesties" (2 Peter 2:9-10)
  1. Peter wrote "the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from temptation"
    AND "the Lord knows how" "to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment"
    
    SO the Lord God's control over salvation is amplified in Peter's writing
  2. Peter also wrote important points about the unrighteous
    DARING: the unrighteous do things like claim they choose Jesus contrary to the Lord's words "you did not choose Me, but I chose you" (John 15:16)
    
    SELF-WILLED: the unrighteous are self-willed
    NOT trembling when they revile angelic majesties
    
    BY claiming choice toward Jesus
    
    SO the self-willed persons contradict the Lord's words of "I chose you out of the world" (John 15:19)
  3. In 2 Peter 2:9-10,
    - the English word "revile" translates from the Greek word "blasphémeó" which truly means "blaspheme" (Strong's Greek: 987. βλασφημέω (blasphémeó) -- to slander, hence to speak lightly or profanely of sacred things)
    - the English words "angelic majesties" comes from the Greek word "doxas" from the Greek root of "doxa" which truly means "glory" (Strong's Greek: 1391. δόξα (doxa) -- opinion (always good in N.T.), hence praise, honor, glory, while "doxas" can be "glories" in 1 Peter 1:11 "doxas" is translated "glory" in the KJV)
    SO the sentence can appropriately be rendered in English as "self-willed, they do not tremble when they blaspheme Glory".
    
    AND The Prophet Isaiah recorded the word of God "I will not give My glory to another" (Isaiah 42:8).
  4. In the unrighteous person's daring self-will, they are condemned
    THEREFORE, "self will" is a cause unto damnation in the New Testament.
2. The Apostle Paul wrote of "free will" metaphorically in "but without your consent I did not want to do anything, so that your goodness would not be, in effect, by compulsion but of your own free will" (Philemon 1:14)
  1. The same writing of the Apostle Paul in direct word for word Greek to English "Apart-from however your consent nothing I-wished to-do so-that not as according-to necessity the good of-you may-be but according-to willingness" (Philemon 1:14)
  2. The KJV renders "in effect" as "as it were"
    AND "as it were" is adverbial with the meaning "as if it were really so"
    
    SO "as it were" is the same as "in effect"
  3. Two literary constructs are "in effect" and "in fact" each with differing definition, here are the hallmarks of each phrase:
    1. The definition of each
      1. "in effect" expresses differing causes in which a similar effect/outcome occurs (cause and effect); in other words, one thing is different from another thing, yet the resultant effect is similar.
      2. "in fact" expresses accuracy of fact; in other words, two things that are the same arrive at the same resultant effect.
    2. An example of each:
      1. EXAMPLE "IN EFFECT" SENTENCE: In effect, the systems are identical.
      2. EXAMPLE "IN FACT" SENTENCE: In fact, the systems are identical.
    3. An explanation of the examples:
      1. EXPLANATION OF "IN EFFECT" SENTENCE: Two systems using different means to arrive at similarly identical output despite using alternative avenue/means/cause to arrive at the output.
      2. EXPLANATION OF "IN FACT" SENTENCE: Arriving at the same output using two exactly same systems or two systems the same in function with few details changed.
  4. Paul wrote of the outcome "your goodness".
  5. The clause after "in effect" is cohesive
    1. "by compulsion but of your own free will" is a whole grammatically.
    2. This results in the effectual "cause" of "your goodness" is not compulsion but free will.
  6. Paul also wrote of two systems/causes which are (1) "compulsion" and (2) "your own free will".
  7. Logic comes into play, here, as a literary construct.
    1. The functional words "and", "or", and "not" are part of boolean logic operators.
    2. Notice the position of the word "not" in the sentence.
    3. The word "not" precedes the words "in effect" causing the "not" to be associated with the phrases following the words "in effect"
    4. The "not" preceding "in effect" results in an inversion of "compulsion" and "free will" with respect to "in effect".
    5. Thus, "compulsion" is the concrete, and "free will" is the illusory.
  8. Phrase reduction can also help with clarity, so now is the time to apply it to Philemon 1:14.
    1. For transparency, the phrase reduction guidelines and steps to be applied:
      1. maintain original sentence denotation for remaining phrases.
      2. implement minimal sentence impact.
      3. retain phrase "of your own free will".
      4. eliminate phrase "by compulsion".
      5. eliminate the conjunction "but" linking the phrases "by compulsion" and "of your own free will".
      6. the conjunction "but" eliminatation requires the elimination of the "not" adjacent to "in effect".
    2. For clarity sake, here is the resultant phrase reduction:
      "but without your consent I did not want to do anything, so that your goodness would be, in effect, of your own free will" (Philemon 1:14).
    3. Nonetheless, the actual scripture is:
      "but without your consent I did not want to do anything, so that your goodness would not be, in effect, by compulsion but of your own free will" (Philemon 1:14).
    4. The resultant phrase reduction "Your goodness would be, in effect, of your own free will" exposes that "your own free will" is not the real cause of "your goodness"
    5. A referenced thing can be real, or a referenced thing can be illusion
    6. That which is not real is illusion, and real is concrete
    7. Thus, "compulsion" is the concrete, and "free will" is the illusory.
  9. Paul clearly states that for appearances sake "your goodness" would have the appearance of "free will" with "free will" being the illusory element.
  10. Paul does not say he has the free will to choose God.
  11. It is prudent to compare scripture with scripture
    1. Paul referring to "your goodness" in Philemon 1:14 is referring to good works that God prepared for us believers to walk in them (Ephesians 2:10)
      
      Dead Men Don't Do Anything Good, Not Even Choose Jesus
      [QUOTE="Renniks, post: 1427280, member: 8518"]Why would Jesus say that if we have no freedom to do anything?
      That's like saying "wake up" to a dead man.[/QUOTE]
      It's important to return to your above recent post.
      While the following response post remains Spiritually true:
      [QUOTE="Kermos, post: 1429885, member: 8138"]
      "He came up and touched the coffin; and the bearers came to a halt. And He said, 'Young man, I say to you, arise!' The dead man sat up and began to speak" (Luke 7:14-15).
      Do you mean something like that, Renniks?
      To answer your question, Jesus does things to bring glory to God, for example the above mentioned passage continues about the witnesses "they began glorifying God" (Luke 7:16).
      You desire to glorify yourself by way of your purported free will choosing of Jesus. "Oh, look at what Renniks did, he chose Jesus".
      Indeed, Jesus speaks to all believers in all time when He says "you did not choose Me, but I chose you" (John 15:16) as well as "I chose you out of the world" (John 15:19 - includes salvation). Behold, the Way (John 14:6).
      [/QUOTE]
      Renniks, we need to look at the Apostle Paul's writing.
      Paul made reference to Jesus raising dead men to everlasting life in Jesus with "you were dead in your trespasses and sins" (Ephesians 2:1), and this is the first state of being for all men because Paul wrote "in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience" (Ephesians 2:2).
      In case you doubt men's first nature, Paul continues "Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest" (Ephesians 2:3).
      Paul describes dead men (Ephesians 2:1) walking, there as "children of wrath" (Ephesians 2:3).
      But then Paul proclaims God's glorious and blessed work of enlivening dead men into everlasting life in Christ Jesus with "But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ, by grace you have been saved" (Ephesians 2:4-5).
      Paul wrote a spiritually strong parallel to the account that Luke recorded of Jesus raising the dead man to life as recorded (Luke 7:14-16) - the very account that God had me proclaim to you in the above post.
      For you, Renniks, the conclusion of Ephesians 2:5 is adulterated by your heart into "by your choice you have been saved" - and this is among the many of your heart's adulterations of scripture.
      THE TRUTH (JOHN 14:6) IS THAT JESUS RAISES DEAD PERSONS TO EVERLASTING JOYFUL AND LOVING LIFE IN JESUS, and said persons have no choice in the matter. "That's like saying "wake up" to a dead man" (your words from your post quoted above).
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      Later, Renniks followed up.
      [QUOTE="Renniks, post: 1431829, member: 8518"]None of these scriptures cancel out the choice.
      You conveniently forgot when Paul describes how one becomes saved in Ephesians 1.
      12 in order that we, who were the first to put our hope in Christ, might be for the praise of his glory. 13 And you also were included in Christ when you heard the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation. When you believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, 14 who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession—to the praise of his glory.
      Nothing Paul says makes irresistible Grace necessary for salvation.[/QUOTE]
      You highlighted "When you believed" of Ephesians 1:13, and that "believed" is not manipulated by man but rather truly the "believed" is the work of God for Paul wrote "by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast for we are His work" (Ephesians 2:8-10).
      Your purported "I chose to believe in Jesus" is boasting.
      Still, Paul is in accord with Jesus the Word of God saying "this is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He has sent" (John 6:29).
      The Word of God says "you did not choose Me, but I chose you" (John 15:16) and "I chose you out of the world" (John 15:19 - includes salvation).
      Thus you are out of accord with the Word of God.
      1. Paul also wrote "we are His work, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them" (Ephesians 2:10)
        
        The Tradition Man Created Teaching That Man Is Good - An Open Conspiracy
        Free-willian philosophers base their "man is inherently good" philosophy on Bible passages such as:
        Let no one say when he is tempted, "I am being tempted by God"; for God cannot be tempted by evil, and He Himself does not tempt anyone. (James 1:13)
        
        In the following, it is imperative to remember that Jesus Christ is truly Man (Luke 1:26-33) - the Son of Man, and Jesus Christ is truly God (Luke 1:34-35, John 8:58, John 20:28, John 5:18, John 10:30-31) - the Son of God. This means Jesus is good because He says "No one is good except God alone" (Lord Jesus Christ, Mark 10:18), so Christ alone is the exception to when I write all people and such.
        Man starts initially as evil, self-willed for the Apostle gives no exception for a person starting otherwise in life with "the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from temptation, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment, and especially those who indulge the flesh in its corrupt desires and despise authority, daring, self-willed, they do not tremble when they revile angelic majesties" (2 Peter 2:9-10).
        Here are the relevant spiritual points about James 1:13 that are together a cohesive unit proving the deception of the free-willian way:
        
        free-will is not contained therein, so James 1:13 is not a proof text for free-will.
        
        self-will is not mentioned therein. James 1:13 does not indicate "God does not given any man self-will".
        
        the audience for James' letter is people who are in Christ; in other words, people that are saved (James 1:1-2, James 2:1). The audience constrains the meaning of "anyone" in James 1:13 to exclusively the people of the faith, so James is not addressing the faithless in James 1:13.
        
        it is written "YHWH tests the righteous and the wicked, And the one who loves violence His soul hates" (Psalm 11:5), so God does not tempt people, but God does test people.
        
        it is written "Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, And in sin my mother conceived me" (Psalm 51:5), so all, and I mean every person except Christ (2 Corinthians 5:21), all people start off as evil, fleshly, self-willed persons for there is no exception indicated anywhere in Scripture.
        
        it is written "The wicked are estranged from the womb; these who speak lies go astray from birth" (Psalm 58:3), so all, and I mean every person except Christ (2 Corinthians 5:21), all people start off as evil, fleshly, self-willed persons for there is no exception indicated anywhere in Scripture.
        
        it is written "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?" (Jeremiah 17:9), so man is evil and self-willed in his deceitful heart from birth without exception - man is created in the flesh, evil, and self-willed.
        
        the Apostle Paul wrote
        you were dead in your trespasses and sins, in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience. Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest. But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ by grace you have been saved (Ephesians 2:1-5)
        So, everyone in the Assembly of God formerly were self-willed people; therefore, everyone starts out in life with a self-will because all of the unsaved people are self-willed.
        
        thus says Adonai YHWH (Lord GOD) "The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not suffer for the iniquity of the father, nor the father suffer for the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself" (Ezekiel 18:20), so every self-willed person goes to hell for practicing lawlessness because of the person's own doing of sin (crimes against God) - their sin is accounted to them yet no self-willed person can escape being self-willed of their own initiative for the Word of God says "And why do you not even on your own initiative judge what is right?" (Luke 12:57).
      2. This results in Paul's words in Philemon 1:14 agreeing with Paul's words in Ephesians 2:10.
    2. Paul referring to "your goodness" in Philemon 1:14 is referring to fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23)
      1. Paul knew that "good works" of the creature is "fruit of the Spirit"
      2. This establishes the Philemon 1:14 relation with Galatians 5:22-23
      3. Paul knew the works are wrought in God (John 3:21)
  12. Paul's writing indicates that "in effect" is applied to the two systems/causes, and this results in "your own free will" as the illusory system/cause.
    THEREFORE, "free will" as a concrete system/cause does not occur in the New Testament.
3. The will of God creates the new creature, the new thing, the new creation, the born again person, the child of God
  AND events inescapably occur according to God's hand and God's purpose
  1. "Worthy are You, our Lord and our God, to receive glory and honor and power; for You created all things, and because of Your will they existed, and were created." (Revelation 4:11)
  2. "O Lord, it is You who made the heaven and the earth and the sea, and all that is in them, who by the Holy Spirit, through the mouth of our father David Your servant, said,
    
    'Why did the Gentiles rage,
    
    And the peoples devise futile things?
    
    'The kings of the earth took their stand,
    
    And the rulers were gathered together
    
    Against the Lord and against His Christ.'
    
    For truly in this city there were gathered together against Your holy servant Jesus, whom You anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, along with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, to do whatever Your hand and Your purpose predestined to occur. And now, Lord, take note of their threats, and grant that Your bond-servants may speak Your word with all confidence, while You extend Your hand to heal, and signs and wonders take place through the name of Your holy servant Jesus." (Acts 4:24-30, the Apostle Peter and the Apostle John and the Assembly of God were together when they lifted their voices to God with one accord)
  3. Revelation 4:11 relates with "the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from temptation" in 2 Peter 2:9-10
  4. Acts 4:24-30 relates with "the Lord knows how" "to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment" in 2 Peter 2:9-10
4. Lord Jesus is focused on the will of God
  AND the Son does the will of the Father
  
  AND the Son of God, Jesus, is our believers example (John 13:15)
  1. "My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to accomplish His work" (John 4:34)
  2. "Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, unless [it is] something He sees the Father doing; for whatever the Father does, these things the Son also does in like manner" (John 5:19)
  3. "I can do nothing on My own initiative. As I hear, I judge; and My judgment is just, because I do not seek My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me" (John 5:30)
  4. "For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me" (John 6:38)
  5. "My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; yet not as I will, but as You will" (Matthew 26:39)
  6. "My Father, if this cannot pass away unless I drink it, Your will be done" (Matthew 26:42)
Desire, as in wanting and delighting, is addressed in Scripture
SO the desire, wishes, and delight of God is expressed

AS in "wishes none should perish"

OR as in "desires all to be saved"

BECAUSE it is written about the Lord "who desires all men to be saved" (1 Timothy 2:4)

AND it is written about the Lord "not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance" (2 Peter 3:9)

YET those verses are incomplete contextually without surrounding context

WHEN those verses are used as cited above, it could be similar hearing the dying words of someone saying "I have twenty gold bullion bars in a jar in my kitchen and you can have it" then the person passes with no identification but that leaves many questions "who is the 'I' in the statement" and "what house out of the millions of houses in the state contains the 'my kitchen'" and "which 'jar'" and "is the 'jar' hidden in a wall or buried in the earth below the kitchen or something".

SO those verses need to take into account the following verses, in other words, the above verses need to reconcile with the following verses:

"YHWH will delight over you to make you perish and destroy you" (Deuteronomy 28:63)

by His word the present heavens and earth are treasured for fire, kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men (2 Peter 3:7)

NOW it's time to examine 1 Timothy 2:4 and 2 Peter 3:9 properly in context.
1. Examining 1 Timothy 2:4
  1. The word "all' occurs in various passages in the Bible. Let's examine 2 particular occurrences, 1 Timothy 2:4 and Acts 1:21
  2. Why Acts 1:21, one might ask, well, it relates to a broader scope.
    1. The Apostle John recorded the supper that preceded the crucifixion in John chapters 13-17
    2. Among the supper discourse, Lord Jesus says several important things:
      1. "You did not choose Me, but I chose you" (John 15:16, includes salvation and sanctification)
      2. "I chose you out of the world" (John 15:19, includes salvation)
      3. "I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever; [that is] the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him, [but] you know Him because He abides with you and will be in you" (John 14:16-17)
    3. Lord Jesus uses the word "you" repeatedely throughout John chapters 13-17, including the above quotations
    4. Lord Jesus promised the Holy Spirit to the audience represented in the word "you"
    5. Lord Jesus declared that no member represented in the audience of "you" can choose Jesus, but Jesus exclusively chooses every member represented in the audience of "you"
    6. Every member represented in the audience of "you" is saved from the wrath of God (John 6:29, John 15:16, John 3:36)
    7. Lord Jesus addresses the audience of all believers in all time (see also more of the Word of God integrating all believers in all time at the supper)
  3. Enter Acts 1:21
    1. After the Christ's ascension, the disciples specifically identified Matthias and Joseph as two men who "accompanied us all the time" - see that it is "all" the time they were with Jesus as described by the Apostle Peter here:
      "'Therefore it is necessary that of the men who have accompanied us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us - beginning with the baptism of John until the day that He was taken up from us - one of these [must] become a witness with us of His resurrection.' So they put forward two men, Joseph called Barsabbas (who was also called Justus), and Matthias." (Acts 1:21-23)
    2. In the room occupied by Jesus' disciples who put forward Matthias and Joseph were many apostles including Peter and John and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon the Zealot, and Judas the son of James (Acts 1:13)
    3. The Apostle Peter's description in Acts 1:21 clearly puts Joseph and Matthias in the supper room covered in John chapters 13-17
    4. The Apostle Peter said "all" - that is "all the time" in Acts 1:21
  4. I repeatedly encountered self willed Arminians/self-willians (2 Peter 2:9-10) who claim that the "all" mentioned by Peter in Acts 1:21 does not mean that Joseph and Matthias were present during the time in the supper room covered in John 13-17; furthermore, this is part of their attempt to confine the "you" mentioned by Lord Jesus as recorded in John 15:16 to the apostles only - strictly and exclusively constrained to the apostles from among the disciples as recorded when He chose the twelve (Luke 6:13)
  5. Enter 1 Timothy 2:4
    1. The Apostle Paul wrote that God "desires all men to be saved" in 1 Timothy 2:4
    2. the self-willians assert that the "all" means every single person without exception
  6. Duplicity exposed
    1. The self-willians strongly assert "all" does not mean "all" in "all the time" for Acts 1:21
    2. The self-willians strongly assert "all" does mean "all" in "all men" for 1 Timothy 2:4
    3. Self-willians are inconsistent in applying the rules of language and literary style
  7. The word "all" validly represents a subset within a population, which can be temporal, spatial, physical, spriritual...
    1. When speaking of unsaved persons as a subset within the population of persons on earth, Lord Jesus says "You will be hated by all because of My name" (Mark 13:13)
      1. subset: unsaved persons
      2. population: persons on earth
      3. "all" equals "unsaved persons"
    2. When speaking of saved persons as a subset within the population of persons on earth, Lord Jesus says "What I say to you I say to all" (Mark 13:37)
      1. subset: saved persons
      2. population: persons on earth
      3. "all" equals "saved persons"
    3. The previous two examples demonstrate the use of "all" to indicate two different populations within a larger population
      MOREOVER these examples indicate opposite populations referred to using the word "all"
    4. A population within a population can be legitimately represented with the word "all" for time, geographic region, people, heaven...
  8. Properly exegeting, 1 Timothy 2:4
    1. exposes God's desire/want
      1. When Paul wrote that God "desires all men to be saved" (1 Timothy 2:4), critical points need to be examined, including:
        
        "desire" and "want" are synonyms.
        
        "all men" must refer to some population.
      2. Paul expressed a "desire" of God. God absolutely gets what God desires!
      3. Using the synonym, Paul expressed a "want" of God, and, with absolute certainty, God gets what God wants!
      4. Taking the isolated phrase in 1 Timothy 2:4 can lead to wrong conclusions such as:
        
        God does not get what God wants
        
        "all" men are saved regardless of faith in Jesus Christ
      5. Such interpretations are abominable.
      6. So this must continue on to the next point for clarifications.
    2. can be exegeted as when visiting 1 Timothy 2:4
      1. presents constraints for the word "all"
        SO "all" means all types of people because of qualification placed on the "all" in 1 Timothy 2:4
        
        BASED upon the broader passage by Paul about prayers "be made on behalf of all men, for kings and all who are in authority, so that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life" (1 Timothy 2:1-2)
        
        AND Paul wrote "kings"
        
        AND he wrote "all who are in authority"
        
        AND he wrote "all men" (includes types of people that are not "kings")
        
        AND he wrote "we" (being believers)
        
        THUS multiple types are evident in 1 Timothy 2:4
      2. does not state "who desires all men choose to be saved"
      3. does not state "who desires all men willpower to be saved"
      4. does state "who desires all men to be saved"
        THEREFORE, 1 Timothy 2:4 conveys NOT OF MAN rather OF GOD (John 1:12-13, Romans 9:16)
        
        BASED on the above explanation of Truth about 1 Timothy 2:4, it is deceptive for Arminians to use the passage as a free will proof text
      5. A key take away of Paul's writing is for prayer
        
        In the letter to Timothy, him being a believer, this is a key component
        
        Even prayer for the lost and unsaved
    3. can also be exegeted in the broader scope, let's visit 1 Timothy 2:1-8
      
      verse 1 First of all, then, I urge that entreaties [and] prayers, petitions [and] thanksgivings, be made on behalf of all men,
      
      verse 2 for kings and all who are in authority, so that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and dignity.
      
      verse 3 This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,
      
      verse 4 who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
      
      verse 5 For there is one God, [and] one mediator also between God and men, [the] man Christ Jesus,
      
      verse 6 who gave Himself as a ransom for all, the testimony [given] at the proper time.
      
      verse 7 For this I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (I am telling the truth, I am not lying) as a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.
      
      verse 8 Therefore I want the men in every place to pray, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and dissension.
      
      1 Timothy 2:1-8
      1. The Apostle Paul wrote to Timothy utilizing the clause "all men" in verse 1 and verse 4.
      2. Lord Jesus said:
        "the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many" (Matthew 20:28)
        "many are called, but few are chosen" (Matthew 22:14)
      3. Jesus IS GOD (John 8:58)
      4. Paul IS MAN (Acts 7:58 Saul is Paul)
      5. The words of Paul need to reconcile back to Jesus
      6. Lord Jesus said that Jesus came "to give His life a ransom for many"
      7. Paul wrote "gave Himself as a ransom for all".
      8. Lord Jesus said "many"; on the other hand, Paul said "all"
      9. God is all mighty (Genesis 35:11) with a might that surpasses human intellect abilities (Isaiah 55:8)
      10. When God desires/wants something, then God gets it (Daniel 4:35, Jude 1:4, Revelation 21:27, Romans 9:18-23)
      11. While examining Paul's writing in 1 Timothy 2:1-8, we would do well to keep in mind the revelation to the Apostle John:
        "And they sang a new song, saying, 'Worthy are You to take the book and to break its seals; for You were slain, and purchased for God with Your blood men from every tribe and tongue and people and nation. You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to our God; and they will reign upon the earth.'" (Revelation 5:9-10)
      12. Paul indicates prayers be made on behalf of "all men"
        THEN Paul mentions a classification of men
        
        THAT is kings in the plural
        
        AND those in authority in the plural
        
        YET don't forget Revelation 5:9-10
      13. Paul then indicates the prayers be about "that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and dignity"
      14. The "all men" mentioned by Paul does not indicate specific men, rather classifications/types of men
      15. There are kings, and there are "not" kings, identified for intercessory prayer
      16. Keep an eye on Revelation 5:9-10
      17. Note Paul's writing here does not mean that we cannot pray for specific individuals
      18. In verse 4, Paul indicates God desires "all men" to be saved
      19. The "all men" in verse 4 are a continuation of the "all men" in verse 1, that is, the classifications/types of men.
      20. God desires men of various types to be saved, recall Revelation 5:9-10 above
      21. In verse 6, Paul indicates that Christ Jesus gave Himself a ransom for "all", and that "all" is the elect/chosen of God (recall Matthew 22:14 above)
      22. That is, the ones who are born again by the Spirit of God (John 3:3-8) as well as the work of God in a person to believe in Jesus whom the Father has sent (John 6:29)
      23. Can the Apostle Paul be referring to every person who ever lived at any point in time in 1 Timothy 2:4 or 1 Timothy 2:6? Let's examine scripture which contains the answer:
        
        Judas Iscariot (Jesus knew the son of perdition [destruction, ruin, loss, perishing; eternal ruin] would betray him John 13:11, John 17:12, Acts 1:16-20)
        
        Pharoah (raised up to fight against God Romans 9:17)
        
        Esau (God said "JACOB I LOVED, BUT ESAU I HATED." Romans 9:13 translated accurately, quoting from Malachi 1:2-3)
        
        Jewish Religious Leaders (they cried out saying, "Crucify, crucify!" about Jesus John 19:6 and with the upcoming "Your" being God's "to do whatever Your hand and Your purpose predestined to occur" Acts 4:27-28)
        
        Pontius Pilate (the upcoming "Your" being God's "to do whatever Your hand and Your purpose predestined to occur" Acts 4:27-28)
        
        Antichrist ("false Christs and false prophets will arise and will show great signs and wonders, so as to mislead, if possible, even the elect" Matthew 24:24)
      24. The above six points, every one of the points, makes reference to REAL people
        AND the people are ALL under the wrath of God for there is no indicating of belief in Jesus whom the Father has sent!
      25. Paul wrote Romans 9:13 and Paul wrote 1 Timothy 2:4
        THUS providing more clarity that "all men" in 1 Timothy 2:1-8 are various types of men
      26. In verse 8, Paul wrote "I want the men in every place to pray, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and dissension"
        
        Who prays to God lifting holy hands in unity?
        
        The answer: believers!
        
        This "the men" harkens back to the "all men" in verse 1 and verse 4
      27. It is far worse than a critical disservice to God for any man to interpret 1 Timothy 2:1-8 as some kind of promiscuous man controlled salvation support apparatus
  9. Proper Language Rules And Literary Style
    1. In Acts 1:21 and surrounding context, constraints are not present on "all", so "all" means "all the time"
    2. In 1 Timothy 2:4 and surrounding context, constraints are present on "all", so "all" means all types of people
    3. Self-willed persons not only get the "all" denotation and connotation reversed between Acts 1:21 and 1 Timothy 2:4, but they daringly deny that Lord Jesus' refers to all believers in all time when the Word of God says "you did not choose Me, but I chose you" (John 15:16)
  10. Critical Points About 1 Timothy 2:4
    1. The logical conclusion of "all men" meaning every person walking on planet Earth is universalism (written another way, all people everywhere are saved from the wrath of God regardless of whether a person believes in Jesus Christ) which is heretical because it is inconsistent with scripture and Apostolic teaching
      SUCH as when the Apostle Paul wrote "we will be rescued from perverse and evil men; for not all have belief" (2 Thessalonians 3:2)
    2. Under the self willed doctrine of free will:
      1. there is no need to pray to God for specific lost and unsaved persons since people are in exclusive control of choosing God a.k.a. claiming God's salvation for themselves
      2. the self willed people daringly revile the majesty of King Jesus by way of such people's thoughts that God does not have control over their salvation
      3. self willed person's "I chose to believe in Jesus" trumps according to such a one's theology which is based in such a person's self will, yet it's not based in God for the Word of God says "This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He has sent" (John 6:29) - in effect, such a daringly self willed one calls the Christ of us Christians a liar
      4. the self willian's daring thoughts that they can choose Jesus despite Jesus saying "you did not choose Me" (John 15:16) translates to the fact that the self willian's do not believe in Him Who says Who He is - He is the One with the characteristic to exclusively choose to save while man lacks the characteristic to choose Jesus per the Word of God saying "you did not choose Me, but I chose you" (John 15:16) and "I chose you out of the world" (John 15:19 - includes salvation)
    3. The 1 Timothy 2:4 passage never mentions explicitly nor implicitly that men have the ability to choose toward God, so this passage is absolutely not a proof text for people choosing God to salvation
    4. The writing of Paul in 1 Timothy 2:4 is in harmony with the Word saying "you did not choose Me, but I chose you" (John 15:16)
2. Examining 2 Peter 3:9
  1. My beloved brother and Apostle Peter wrote to and of the Assembly of God "not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance" (2 Peter 3:9)
  2. The context occurring immediately prior, "is patient toward you", speaks loud and clear to the audience, as does the opening of the epistle "Simon Peter, a bond-servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who have received a faith of the same kind as ours, by the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ" (2 Peter 1:1)
  3. Behold, the "received" in 2 Peter 1:1 represents "siezed by", as in siezed by God, just like the Apostle John wrote with:
    
    "But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, [even] to those who believe in His name, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God." (John 1:12-13)
  4. See "nor of the will of man" in John 1:12-13
  5. See that it is not man's will in John 1:12-13
  6. See children of God are born of God in John 1:12-13 (John 3:3-8)
  7. Faith/belief in Jesus whom the Father has sent is the work of God - not of man - faith/belief is the gift of God (John 6:29, Ephesians 2:8-10)
    The True Grammar of Ephesians 2:8-10
    The Apostle Paul wrote:
    "by grace you are saved through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God" (Ephesians 2:8).
    
    In Ephesians chapter 2, Paul introduces the development for the concept of "by grace you have been saved" in Ephesians 2:5, then Paul proceeded through the intervening verses to the fully developed big reveal of "by grace you are saved through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God" in Ephesians 2:8.
    Paul expanded on what he started to talk about in Ephesians 2:5; moreover, in Ephesians 2:8, Paul makes it Spiritually and grammatically clear that faith is inextricably included in the "not of yourselves, it is the gift of God".
    The Greek grammar of Ephesians 2:8 is multi-faceted, so let's look at these ten words, at constructs such as Greek language case/gender/number which establish communication, so here they are:
    - grace - noun - dative/feminine/singular
    - you is exclusively the subject in (Ephesians 2:8), and "you" is derived from the second person and plural count of the inflection of the verb "are".
    - are - verb - is a present, indicative, active verb in the second person and plural count
    - saved - verb - nominative/masculine/plural
    - faith - noun - genitive/feminine/singular
    - and - conjunction
    - that - demonstrative pronoun - nominative/neuter/singular
    - yourselves - personal pronoun - genitive in the second person with plural count.
    - God - noun - genitive/masculine/singular
    - gift - noun - nominative/neuter/singular
    Since both "you" and "yourselves" are second person and plural count, then the word "yourselves" refers specifically to the complete sentence subject of "you"; therefore, the word "that" arbitrates the thing that is "not of yourselves" as well as "the gift of God".
    A noun is the subject of a sentence, and a verb is an action by or on the subject of the sentence; moreover, a verb is not the subject of a sentence, and this is fundamental grammar.
    A nuance of inflective languages is that a sentence's verb can concretely indicate the sentence's subject noun without including the specific word for the noun in the sentence. Both Greek and Spanish are examples of such inflective languages.
    In Ephesians 2:8, the Greek verb ἐστε (Strong’s 1510 – εἰμί – eimi – am, are, is) translates to the English verb "are", and we know ἐστε equals “are” because of the inflection of ἐστε which is both second person, "you", and this "you" is plural; therefore, the Greek verb ἐστε (are) implicitly indicates the sentence’s subject noun “you” for this sentence:
    For by grace you are saved through faith
    (Ephesians 2:8)
    
    The English word "you" is concretely the subject.
    As is clearly evident in Ephesians 2:8, Paul utilized no full grammatical inflective agreement between the words, for example, he did not precisely tie objects back to the subject using case/number/gender agreement.
    There is a principle in Greek grammar which dictates that in the absence of full inflective agreement, then the word order in the sentence becomes paramount, so the word order in Ephesians 2:8 dictates relationship between the words.
    Essentially, this principle of Greek grammar word order antecedent placement results in the fact that the phrase "faith and that not of yourselves" is specifically stating that faith is not of man while at the same time specifically stating faith is truly the work of God because of "it is the gift of God".
    As a minimum basis, the word order principle plays a role in the grammatical structure of Ephesians 2:8.
    There is more to the grammatical structure of Ephesians 2:8, such as "God" and "faith" are the only genitive and singular two words in Ephesians 2:8, and both of these words have an antecedent that is neuter, and a neuter can be an antecedent to both masculine words and feminine words, so this grammatical structure binds the words "God" and "faith" together in Ephesians 2:8, and yet there is more to the grammatical structure such that the following is entirely Truth (John 14:6).
    We have 3 clauses in Ephesians 2:8:
    1. by grace you are saved through faith
    2. and that not of yourselves
    3. it is the gift of God
    The full concept of the "by grace you are saved through faith" clause is "not of yourselves".
    The full concept of the "by grace you are saved through faith" clause is "the gift of God".
    The full concept of the "by grace you are saved through faith" clause is composed of the constituent parts of "grace" and "saved" and "faith".
    When taken as a linguistic whole, Ephesians 2:8 results in this Truth (John 14:6) that the entirety of
    - "grace" is not a work of man while being the gift of God
    - "saved" is not a work of man while being the gift of God
    - "faith" is not a work of man while being the gift of God
    in Paul's writing of
    by grace you are saved through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God, not as a result of works, so that no one may boast for we are His work
    (Ephesians 2:8-10)
    
    One of the grammatical functions of the genitive case is to establish association between two nouns. Paul used the genitive and singular combination for only two words in Ephesians 2:8, and these two words are the masculine "God" and the feminine "faith".
    In Ephesians 2:9, Paul makes it clear that the work of faith is not a work of man, yet the surrounding verses of Ephesians 2:8 and Ephesians 2:10 clearly state that faith is the work of God.
  8. Recalling that Peter wrote to and of the Assembly of God as found in 2 Peter 1:1, here is the entirety of 2 Peter 3:9:
    
    The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance.
  9. This Holy Spirit inspired writing contains telling phrases:
    1. His promise (referring to eternal life in the Lord Jesus Christ)
    2. is patient toward you (that "you" refers to people who received or [by God's patience] will receive the faith delivered by our God and Savior, Jesus Christ [2 Peter 1:1])
    3. not wishing for any to perish (that "any" refers back to that "you" - the ones with whom God is patient)
    4. but for all to come to repentance (that "all" refers back to that "any" - the ones God desires not to perish)
  10. Critical Points About 2 Peter 3:9
    1. The 2 Peter 3:9 passage lingusitically translates legitimately as "not desiring for any to perish but for all to come to repentance" (2 Peter 3:9)
    2. The logical conclusion of "not wishing for any to perish" meaning every person walking on planet Earth is universalism (written another way, all people everywhere are saved from the wrath of God regardless of whether a person believes in Jesus Christ) which is heretical because it is inconsistent with scripture and Apostolic teaching
      SUCH as when the Apostle Paul wrote "we will be rescued from perverse and evil men; for not all have belief" (2 Thessalonians 3:2)
    3. Under the self willed doctrine of free will:
      1. there is no need to pray to God for specific lost and unsaved persons since people are in exclusive control of choosing God a.k.a. claiming God's salvation for themselves
      2. the self willed people daringly revile the majesty of King Jesus by way of such people's thoughts that God does not have control over their salvation
      3. self willed person's "I chose to believe in Jesus" trumps according to such a one's theology which is based in such a person's self will, yet it's not based in God for the Word of God says "This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He has sent" (John 6:29) - in effect, such a daringly self willed one calls the Christ of us Christians a liar
      4. the self willian's daring thoughts that they can choose Jesus despite Jesus saying "you did not choose Me" (John 15:16) translates to the fact that the self willian's do not believe in Him Who says Who He is - He is the One with the characteristic to exclusively choose to save while man lacks the characteristic to choose Jesus per the Word of God saying "you did not choose Me, but I chose you" (John 15:16) and "I chose you out of the world" (John 15:19 - includes salvation)
    4. The 2 Peter 3:9 passage never mentions explicitly nor implicitly that men have the ability to choose toward God, so this passage is absolutely not a proof text for people choosing God to salvation
    5. The writing of Peter in 2 Peter 3:9 is in harmony with the Word saying "you did not choose Me, but I chose you" (John 15:16)
  11. The Apostle Peter clearly, absolutely, and literally points to the members of the Assembly of God, the congregation of believers and/or future believers on the Lord Jesus Christ
  12. The passage has nothing to do with free will; in other words, the verse provides nothing in support of accepting/choosing Jesus
  13. The writing of Peter is in harmony with the Word saying "I chose you out of the world" (John 15:19)
3. Conclusions about desire, want, and delight
  1. Between 1 Timothy 2:4, 2 Peter 3:9, Deuteronomy 28:63, and 2 Peter 3:7 it is clear that God gets what God wants
  2. Under the self willed persons (2 Peter 2:9-10) doctrine of free will, God does not get what God wants
  3. According to the Christian doctrine of the Sovereignty of God, God gets what God wants

Crucial definitions of "will" with it's variants and "desire" and "joy" must be established for proper communication

Man Opening The Door To Salvation - The Free-willian Philosophy Explained

Free-willians think a person achieves salvation by doing the work of choosing Jesus, yet free-willians simultaneously think another person goes to hell in the absence of doing the work of choosing Jesus.

THEREFORE, a guy that chose Jesus saves the guy himself, yet a gal that did not choose Jesus condemns the gal herself.

SO, the guy saved himself because without his choosing of Jesus, then he'd be just like that gal.

POINTEDLY, the guy's salvation hinges solely on the guy's choosing Jesus because, in contrast to being saved, the guy would be hell-bound if that hinge of choosing Jesus did not swing open by the guy's power.

The "hinge" of the door mentioned above is based on free will philosophy.

Consider a third individual, who never heard the Gospel of Christ, such a person is not going to be with Christ in His Kingdom - even under free-willian philosophy.

In this sample population, the majority do not enter Heaven, yet the entire population of people are created by God.

Free-willians preach that their god atones for the sins of every man everywhere in all time after the cross; in other words, all people are redeemed by the god that free-willians preach, yet that gal goes to Hell who rejected Jesus; therefore, the god of free-willians failed to save the gal for whom the son of the god of the free-willians died to save.

The blood at the cross also established a spot in Heaven for the third individual who never heard the Gospel, but that spot will remain vacant for all eternity - the god of the free-willians was unable to keep the spot occupied.

The god of free-willian philosophy is weak, incapable, ineffectual, a liar, and not YHWH God.

The free-willian god is non-omniscient, non-omnipresent, and non-omnipotent.

That is no god at all which the free-willians create in their imagination, just a tradition of men that leads to worship in vain (Matthew 15:9).

In Truth (John 14:6), God saves every single individual for whom Jesus died on the cross to redeem from the wrath of God; in other words, God does not miss saving a single one of God's chosen persons for whom Jesus made atonement on the cross.

Lord Jesus says "My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me; and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand. My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand. I and the Father are one" (John 10:27-30).

We Christians hear the Master say "it is finished" (John 19:30), and in that moment we receive the love of God (John 3:16) bestowing undeserved forgiveness upon us wretched God-hating monsters (Ephesians 2:1-4) - that the Son sacrificed Himself to reconcile the world to Himself (2 Corinthians 5:19) for the glory of God (John 17:4-5).

We believe in Jesus whom the Father has sent, and we believe Lord Jesus' sayings that belief is the blessed work of God in us (John 6:29) - it is more than an awakening - it is an enlivening - it is being born again (John 3:3-8) - it is getting the new heart that God wondrously implants in us (Ezekiel 36:26).

We Christians know that God's merciful salvation hinges on Christ alone for the glory of God alone, and there is nothing we can do nor say - not even a human choice approving of Jesus in order to obtain saving grace - nothing we say or do earns the unearnable love of God. We believe that Being saved from the wrath of God is exclusively God choosing us, not us choosing God (John 15:16, John 15:19).

For Christians, it is "believing"; in contrast, for the guy saying "I chose to believe in Jesus", it is "choosing".

For us Christians, it all hinges on Christ alone, yet for the free-willians saying "I chose to believe in Jesus", it all hinges on the a free-willian's choice.

The free will philosophy is proven to be deception because "Behold, His servants, He does not trust" (Job 4:18), so God does not trust a person who chooses Jesus; therefore, a free-willian who says "I chose Jesus" is bound for hell.

Behold, the psalmist says he is entirely dependent upon the Almighty!

I will extol You, O YHWH, for You have lifted me up,
      And have not let my enemies rejoice over me.
O YHWH my God,
      I cried to You for help, and You healed me.
O YHWH, You have brought up my soul from Sheol;
      You have kept me alive, that I would not go down to the pit.
(Psalm 30:1-3)

See "The Natural Is The First State Of Being For All Mere Mortals" sidebar for more insight.

"Willpower" is:
1. the inherent ability to be the source of a cause to an effect
  1. cause = will
  2. effect = power
2. sheer power of will to bring about a result, supernatural
3. the ability to control
FOR example, God said, "Let the waters below the heavens be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear"; and it was so (Genesis 1:9)
"Will" must be examined in both it's forms, that is, as a noun and as a verb
1. Will's definition is the median definition between freewill's definition and bondwill's definition
2. "Will" as a noun is:
  1. cognitive determination to achieve or ignore
  2. manifested as thoughts leading to a motivating factor of preference (possibly resulting in action or inaction)
  3. a state of being
  4. potentially expressed in the statements "I will do this" and "I will not to do that"
  5. existential
  6. consciously aware by the agent
3. "Will" as a verb is:
  1. "Will" is, as a verb:
    1. expresses future tense
    2. an authoritative decree, i.e. governmental
  2. "Will", as a verb, is relevant but refers to prophecy due to future events (fulfilled foretelling versus unfulfilled foretelling)
FOR example of "will" as a noun, God chose Jesus Christ to be savior (Isaiah 42:1-9, Philippians 2:6-11, John 15:13-15, John 8:28)
"Freewill" is:
1. autonomous inherent human agency capable of making human choices
2. a free thought agent with the ability to choose
  1. good
  2. evil
3. self-determined choices which can alternately choose good and evil
4. human directed ability to choose good one minute then choose evil another minute then choose good the next minute then evil then good and so on
5. human freedom of choice undetermined by divine intervention or prior causes
6. unbonded independent choosing
7. separate agent with the capacity of choice
FOR example, "but without your consent I did not want to do anything, so that your goodness would not be, in effect, by compulsion but of your own free will" (Philemon 1:14).
"Bondwill" is:
1. a dependent agent on a power capable of choices
2. clay in the hand of the Potter with the power of selection, where the clay can be one, and only one of:
  1. a vessel of mercy capable of good
  2. a vessel of destruction capable of evil
3. dependent for choice
4. bond as in bound to another
5. adhesion to another influncer
6. tied to another controller
7. an agent united with a powerful agent with the capacity of determination
FOR example, "when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth" (John 16:13)
"Desire" is an unsatisfied state of being, even discontent and/or unhappy
FOR example, God is patient during the time of the Gentiles (Luke 21:24) because God does not desire for any of God the Father's chosen persons (1 Peter 1:1-2) to perish (2 Peter 3:9)
"Joy" is a satisfied state of being, even contentment and/or happy
FOR example, saints in joy are in the presence of the Lord (Revelation 21:4, Revelation 22).

Conclusions:

A comparison table helps:

"Free Will"	"Bond Will"	Relevant Scripture F = free will B = bond will
free-will	bond-will	F & B: Roman 6:17-18
unsecure will	secure will	F & B: John 10:25-30
wide will	narrow will	F & B: Matthew 7:13-14
liberal will	captive will	F & B: 2 Corinthians 10:5
mutable will	immutable will	F: Joshua 24:15; B: Ezekiel 36:26
manipulative will	persuasive will	F: John 8:43-44; B: John 6:29
uncontrolled by God will	controlled by God will	F: 2 Peter 2:12; B: 2 Corinthians 5:14
self will	bound will	F & B: 2 Peter 2:9-10

By definition, "free-will" indicates the source of choices as the free agent; on the other hand, "will" exists without source identification in the definition, yet "will" is a conscience aware condition which is potentially controlled either internally (sovereignty of man) or externally (Sovereignty of God) by definition
The Unchangeableness of God and the Will of God

Many people preach that God has a free-will.
The common free-willian refrain is along the lines of "God has freewill. Christ has freewill. Man was made in their image/likeness. Result? = Man has free will." (an actual free-willian quote).
So, the free-willian philosophy holds that God free-will chooses to change between good and evil, and, since God created man in God's image according to God's likeness (Genesis 1:26), then man does precisely the same as God; therefore, man free-will chooses to change between good and evil.

A Will Requires A Host

First, the definition of free must be considered.
Free denotes:
1. of autonomy:
  - (noun) no constraint, uncontrolled, liberty, not enslaved, emancipation.
  - (verb) disentangled, extricate, untangle.
2. of property:
  - (noun) complimentary, without charge, gratis, no payment required.
  - (verb) give away, sacrifice.
The subject is not of property regarding free-will, so the subject is focused of autonomy regarding free-will.
The word "free" represents a relative concept, as shown in the following paragraph; in other words, a person is "free" from "something".
A person in a constitutional republic, such as the U.S.A., is free to start a business (free from being captives of the tyranny of the King of Great Britain per the U.S. Declaration of Independence), but a person in a communist country, such as North Korea, is NOT free to start a business (communist citizens are captives (owned) by their government).
Second, the definition of free-will must be considered.
Free-will: an autonomous will, an isolated willpower, detached volition, independent moral agency.
Next, considering "will", a will exists not in a vacuum; in other words, a will must be part of a host.
Respecting an unsaved person - the default first condition of every person, since a host (person) is required to host a will, then the person's will is part of the person's self, so the person's will is self-will because the person'a will is attached to the self-same person; on the other hand, the person's will is not free floating detached from the person, so the person's will is not free-will.
The Apostle proclaims a person's will is either one of but not both of:
- a person's will is controlled by God with "God having purified your souls in the obedience of the Truth through the Spirit" (1 Peter 1:21-22) and "it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure" (Philippians 2:13).
- a person's will is controlled by man with "the Lord knows how" "to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment, and especially those who indulge the flesh in its corrupt desires and despise authority, daring, self-willed, they do not tremble when they revile angelic majesties" (2 Peter 2:9-10).
A person's will is dependent upon God (Christimage-will (bond-will), Romans 8:29), or a person's will is dependent upon man (self-will, 2 Peter 2:9-10). No other will exists for a person; moreover, free-will is an illusion as conveyed by the Apostle Paul with "I did not want to do anything, so that your goodness would not be, in effect, by compulsion but of your own free will" (Philemon 1:14).
While the unrighteous unbelievers daringly revel in their own glory founded in their self-willed "I chose Jesus" (2 Peter 2:9-10) thus their hearts steal King Jesus Christ's glory, on the other hand, we righteousness of God in Christ believers worship the Glorious One (2 Corinthians 5:21) who sovereignly chose us (John 15:16, John 15:19 includes salvation).
Thus says Adonai YHWH (Lord GOD) "I am YHWH; that is my name; my glory I give to no other" (Isaiah 42:8), yet the free-willians try to steal God's exclusive glory in the salvation of man.
God's Will is not free will because a free-will does not have a host, yet a host is required for an associated will to exist; therefore, the Will of God is God's Will. See God's Will mentioned in 1 Peter 2:15.
NO SCRIPTURE STATES THAT GOD HAS A FREE-WILL.
God is unchangingly good (Malachi 3:6, Psalm 107:1) for the Word of God says "no one is good except God alone" (Mark 10:18), so God is exclusively good all the time while at the same time God never changes to being evil.
In effect, free-willian philosophy includes that God imparted God-like free-will into man, and it is established that man free-will chooses between being good and being evil according to man's God-like free-will; therefore, God's free-will results in God fluctuating between good and evil because man's God-like free-will fluctuates between good and evil, so God changes to being evil by free-willian philosophers preaching that God has free-will.
THE RESULT, MAN CANNOT HAVE A GOD-LIKE FREE-WILL BECAUSE GOD CANNOT HAVE A FREE-WILL.
NO SCRIPTURE STATES THAT MAN HAS A FREE-WILL.
Free-will philosophy includes the man generated foundation that, by free-will, man can choose to be evil or good, even the ability for a natural man to free-will choose Jesus Christ unto the good of saving himself from the wrath of God.
The Word of God declares:
- "you did not choose Me, but I chose you" (Lord Jesus Christ, John 15:16), so God chooses people to be friends (John 15:15, the prior verse) and to believe (John 6:29) and to be born again (John 3:3-8) and for righteous works (John 3:21, John 15:5) and to repent (Matthew 11:25) and to love (John 13:34) and unto salvation (John 15:19 the same passage).
- "I chose you out of the world" (Lord Jesus Christ, John 15:19, includes salvation), so God exclusively chooses people unto salvation.
- "What I say to you I say to all" (Lord Jesus Christ, Mark 13:37 - Jesus had taken the Apostles Peter, Andrew, James, and John aside in private and said this), so all the blessings of God mentioned above are to all believers in all time.
The only way for free-willian philosophers to acheive free-will is for them to add to the Word of God, and it is written "do not add to His words or He will reprove you, and you will be proved a liar" (Proverbs 30:6).
Every person has a will, but a person's will is either one of but not both of (1) a self-will against God in evil for the natural flesh person (2 Peter 2:9-10) or (2) a will in Christ doing God's good by the Holy Spirit for the Born of God (Romans 8:29, Philippians 2:13, John 3:3-8).
An Alternative Explanation: No Will is Free Because Every Will Is Attached To A Being
Let's examine the free-willian dearly held faith that "my free-will is uncontrolled by God" as compared to linguistics, logic, and Scripture in Truth (John 14:6).
Free-willians abstract (compartmentalize) at two different levels when free-willians think "my free-will is uncontrolled by God".
God is a Being.
You are a being.
A "will" is not a being.
A "will" is part of a being, and a "will" does not exist without a being.
Let's look at free-willian's dearly held belief that "my free-will is uncontrolled by God" from a related perspective, "this being's free-will is uncontrolled by that Being".
Free-willian foundation is the relationship that a "will" is "free" from a "being", and the relationship succeeds logically and linguistically only by including that a "will" is "free" from every "being"; therefore, that "will" must be free from the "Being" (God) as well as that "will" free from the "being" (the free-willian) as well as that "will" free from every other "being", yet a "will" must be part of a "being" resulting in a controlling relationship between the "being" and the being's "will", so the concept of a "will" free from a "being" is illogical.
The free-willian's level of abstraction fails because free-willians have grouped "will" at the same level as the group of "beings", so free-willians are comparing unrelated things, that is, a "will" and a "being"; in other words, free-willian's faulty premise results in a sinfully false conclusion.
The word "free" means "a something detached from an other something", but free-willians redefine "free" to mean "a something detached from that something's self"; therefore, free-willian's linguistics are illegal.
No Scripture states that God imparted man a free-will, in fact, the single occurrence of free-will in the New Testament is where the Apostle Paul refers to free-will as illusory (Philemon 1:14).
Now, a free-willian's "will" is not free from all beings because the free-willian's "will" is part of himself or herself. See the word "self" in the words "himself" and "herself", and "self" is key because by definition free-willians have a self-will (2 Peter 2:9-10) per the free-willian's own proclamation that the free-willian "will" is uncontrolled by God, and, here, in Scripture, we find that free-willians are out of accord with Apostolic testimony.
In Truth (John 14:6), we Christian's have a "will" controlled by the Christ of us Christians for it is written "it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure" (Philippians 2:13).
"Will" does not identify a source in the definition, so will's definition is neither "free will" nor "bond will"
"Thought" have been referred to as faculty of reasoning, the content of cognition, conscious thought, subconscious occurrence, belief, and mental activity in secular circles
Appropriately regarding thoughts scripturally and the Sovereignty of God, the Apostle Paul wrote of "taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ" (2 Corinthians 10:5) which can be directly attributed to God imparting the mind of Christ to us believers for Paul further writes "we have the mind of Christ" (1 Corinthians 2:16)
- "For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh, for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses, destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ, and we are ready to punish all disobedience, whenever your obedience is complete" (2 Corinthians 10:3-6)
- "a natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised. But he who is spiritual appraises all things, yet he himself is appraised by no one. For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he will instruct Him? But we have the mind of Christ" (1 Corinthians 2:14-16)
- No natural man can instruct Him about salvation of the natural man for God does not hear sinners (John 9:31) for the natural man is not pleasing to God (Romans 8:8); on the other hand, he who is spiritual is imparted salvation by God for God causes conversion (Matthew 18:3, John 3:3-8, Ephesians 2:8-10, Ezekiel 36:26)
A treasury of scripture about the exclusive Sovereignty of God in man's salvation (notice the "thought" and "way" in these verses)
- It is written "The heart of man plans his way, but YHWH establishes his steps" (Proverbs 16:9)
- It is written "Then YHWH saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually" (Genesis 6:5)
- It is written ""Beware that there is no base thought in your heart, saying, 'The seventh year, the year of remission, is near,' and your eye is hostile toward your poor brother, and you give him nothing; then he may cry to YHWH against you, and it will be a sin in you" (Deuteronomy 15:9)
- It is written "And Jesus knowing their thoughts said, 'Why are you thinking evil in your hearts?'" (Matthew 9:4)
- It is written "The steps of a man are established by YHWH, and he delights in his way" (Psalm 37:23)
- It is written "The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from YHWH" (Proverbs 16:1)
- It is written "I know, O YHWH, that the way of man is not in himself, that it is not in man who walks to direct his steps" (Jeremiah 10:23)
- It is written "YHWH knows the thoughts of man, that they are a mere breath" (Psalm 94:11)
- It is written "How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How vast is the sum of them" (Psalm 139:17)
- It is written "'For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways,' declares YHWH. 'For [as] the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways And My thoughts than your thoughts'" (Isaiah 55:8-9)
- It is written "For behold, He forms mountains and He creates the wind and He declares to man what are his thoughts, He makes dawn into darkness and He treads on the high places of the earth, YHWH God of hosts is His name" (Amos 4:13)
- It is written "there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries, and He has made known to King Nebuchadnezzar what will take place in the latter days. This was your dream and the visions in your mind [while] on your bed. As for you, O king, [while] on your bed your thoughts turned to what would take place in the future; and He who reveals mysteries has made known to you what will take place. But as for me, this mystery has not been revealed to me for any wisdom residing in me more than [in] any [other] living man, but for the purpose of making the interpretation known to the king, and that you may understand the thoughts of your mind" (Daniel 2:28-30)
- It is written "knowing their thoughts Jesus said to them, 'Any kingdom divided against itself is laid waste; and any city or house divided against itself will not stand'" (Matthew 12:25)
The treasury of scripture (above) shows that God gives man thoughts such that the thoughts are scripturally referred to as man's thoughts
The Bondage Of A Man's Will
Free-willians, in a respect, are correct that "there's no difference between self will and free will", and that respect is that both self will and free will lead to hell.
Now, instead of listening to themselves lie with things like "Free will is all through the scriptures", they need to listen to Apostolic testimony as shown below.
Peter the Apostle wrote that prior to being saved, people have a self will that brings such people under damnation with the devil according to the Apostle Peter (2 Peter 2:9-10).
Paul the Apostle wrote that after being saved, people have a will that is bound under the loving control of God according to the Apostle Paul (Philippians 2:13).
Here's Paul from the Bible, again. Overall, Paul uses free will as illusory instead of concrete in Philemon 1:14 - and this is the only occurrence of "free will" that I am aware of in the New American Standard Bible New Testament.
Free-willians do not have a free will, as described by Paul.
Free-willians do have a self will, as described by Peter.
Free-willians gleefully separate themselves from God's will and the Christ of us Christians Who says "you did not choose Me, but I chose you" (John 15:16) and "I chose you out of the world" (John 15:19). We Christians in God's Spirit have a will bound enthusiastically in joy and love to God by God for God through God, as described by Paul.
The above mentioned Apostolic testimony verbatim:
- "the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from temptation, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment, and especially those who indulge the flesh in its corrupt desires and despise authority; daring, self-willed, they do not tremble when they revile angelic majesties" (2 Peter 2:9-10).
- "it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure" (Philippians 2:13).
- "but without your consent I did not want to do anything, so that your goodness would not be, in effect, by compulsion but of your own free will" (Philemon 1:14).
By God's grace, for God's glory!
MOREOVER regarding thoughts scripturally (above) shows that God gives saved man the mind of Christ such that the weapons of our warfare take every thought captive

ADDITIONALLY the new heart accompanying the birth of the new man by God brings the converted person's thoughts of the heart into unity with God by God

THEREFORE the Kingdom of God is UNITED
"Free-will" differs from "will" in definition in that:
1. "Free will" is independent thought in source of the autonomous agent by definition
2. "Will" is unspecified as to the controller by definition
"Bond-will" is in accord with scripture in that:
1. the natural man is bound as a slave to sin, and the natural man wants to do the desires of the man's father, the devil, for so says the Christ:
  1. "Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who commits sin is the slave of sin" (John 8:34)
  2. "You are of [your] father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own [nature], for he is a liar and the father of lies" (John 8:44)
2. a born of the Spirit of God person is bound as a slave to Righteousness, and Christ is Righteousness, and Christ makes the slave of Righteousness to be free from the punishment for sin against God, a friend of God
  1. Christ is Righteousness
    1. CHRIST IS THE RIGHTEOUS ONE:
      1. "The God of our fathers has appointed you to know His will and to see the Righteous One and to hear an utterance from His mouth" (Acts 22:14, Paul reported that Ananias said this to him).
      2. "They killed those who had previously announced the coming of the Righteous One" (Acts 7:52, Stephen spoke before being martyred).
    2. CHRIST IS RIGHTEOUSNESS:
      1. "this is His name by which He will be called, 'YHWH our righteousness.'" (Jeremiah 23:6).
      2. "They will say of Me, 'Only in YHWH are righteousness and strength.'" (Isaiah 45:24).
    3. GOD IS RIGHTEOUSNESS.
      1. "by His doing you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption" (1 Corinthians 1:30).
      2. "He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him" (2 Corinthians 5:21).
    4. CHRIST IS THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD
      1. "As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up" (John 3:14).
      2. "I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to Myself" (John 12:32).
    5. THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD WAS PUBLICLY LIFTED UP:
      1. "Christ Jesus whom God displayed publicly" (Romans 3:24-25).
      2. "to demonstrate His righteousness" (Romans 3:25).
  2. a born of the Spirit of God person is bound as a slave to Righteousness, and Christ makes the slave of Righteousness to be free from the punishment for sin against God, a friend of God:
    1. "you have been bought with a price" (1 Corinthians 6:20).
    2. "YHWH was pleased to crush Him, putting Him to grief; If He would render Himself as a guilt offering, He will see His offspring, He will prolong His days, and the good pleasure of YHWH will prosper in His hand" (Isaiah 53:10).
    3. "without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins" (Hebrews 9:22).
    4. "He entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves but by means of His own Blood, thus securing an eternal redemption" (Hebrews 9:12).
    5. "as it is, He has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself" (Hebrews 9:26).
    6. "To Him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by His Blood" (Revelation 1:5).
    7. "if the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed" (John 8:36).
    8. "He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By His wounds you have been healed" (1 Peter 2:24).
    9. "Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God" (Ephesians 5:2).
    10. "Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world" (John 1:29).
    11. "This cup which is poured out for you is the new covenant in My Blood" (Luke 22:20).
    12. "The Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many" (Matthew 20:28).
    13. "Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends. You are My friends if you do what I command you" (John 15:13-14).
    14. "When Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, 'It is finished!' And He bowed His head and gave up His spirit" (John 19:30).
    15. "I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep" (John 10:11).
    16. "I am the good shepherd, and I know My own and My own know Me" (John 10:14).
    17. "My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me; and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand" (John 10:27-28).
    18. "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not be amazed that I said to you, 'You must be born again.' The wind blows where it wishes and you hear the sound of it, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going; so is everyone who is born of the Spirit" (John 3:5-8).
3. It seems ridiculous to write this obvious fact, but "desire" differs from "free will" in definition, so they are not the same thing
4. Profound difference exist between "will" with it's variants and "desire" and "joy"

where a covenant is, there must of necessity be the death of the one who made it (Hebrews 9:16)

"This cup which is poured out for you is the new covenant in My blood" (Christ Jesus recorded in Luke 22:20)

Our merciful and loving God is Benefactor, and we believers are beneficiaries
1. God is mercifully loving to save any of the rebellious persons, we beneficiaries
  FOR the first condition of all men is enmity against God
  MOREOVER, that first condition is the default state of man, and the first condition can be referred to as:
  - the first nature
  - the first state
  - the default nature
  - the sin nature
  - the carnal nature
  - the old things
  - the enemy against God nature
  - the flesh nature
  AND that is just like the first man, Adam, from the earth, earthy (1 Corinthians 15:47)
  
  FOR through Adam sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men (Romans 5:12)
  
  AND respecting the first nature all people have no choice in the matter, all people enter life with the sin nature (Colossians 1:13-14, Colossians 1:21-22)
  
  YET people in the first nature are incapable of pleasing God (Romans 8:8)
  
  The Natural Is The First State Of Being For All Mere Mortals
  The Apostle Paul identifies every man starts out as a natural man with "the spiritual is not first, but the natural; then the spiritual" (1 Corinthians 15:46).
  The Apostle Paul states that man is accountable to God for man's own sin against God with "since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse" (Romans 1:20).
  The Apostle Paul includes even the Gentiles in the Law "For when Gentiles who do not have the Law do instinctively the things of the Law, these, not having the Law, are a law to themselves" (Romans 2:14).
  The Apostle Paul states that man is accountable to God for man's own crime against God with "we know that whatever the Law says, it speaks to those who are under the Law, so that every mouth may be closed and all the world may become accountable to God; because by the works of the Law no flesh will be justified in His sight; for through the Law [comes] the knowledge of sin" (Romans 3:19-20).
  The Apostle Paul explains that the commands of God are foolishness to man with a "natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised" (1 Corinthians 2:14)
  The Apostle Paul declares that man's flesh opposes the Spirit of God with "the flesh desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh. For these are opposed to one another" (Galatians 5:17).
  The Apostle Paul declares that man's flesh is hostile against God and the flesh cannot please God with "the mind of the flesh is hostile toward God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able [to do so], and those who are in the flesh cannot please God" (Romans 8:7-8).
  THE FIRST STATE OF MAN IS OPPOSITION TO GOD, AND THE ONLY WAY (JOHN 14:6) FOR MAN'S SALVATION IS FOR GOD TO BIRTH MAN ANEW (JOHN 3:3-8), NOT A WORK OF A CHOICE BY MAN, BUT STRICTLY THE WORK OF GOD IN MAN (JOHN 6:29).
  
  AND people of the first nature cannot understand spiritual things of God (1 Corinthians 2:14)
  
  SO God's regeneration of men in the renewing by the Holy Spirit results in a new creation (2 Corinthians 5:17, Titus 3:5)
  
  AND by the act of God, the old things passed away while the new creature has come (2 Corinthians 5:17)
  
  AGAIN God formed Adam of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being (Genesis 2:7)
  MOREOVER in order to make the woman for the man (Genesis 2:22), God took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh at that place (Genesis 2:21)
  
  ADDITIONALLY Adam said "flesh of my flesh" of the woman (Genesis 2:23)
  
  ADDITIONALLY of man and wife it is written "they shall become one flesh" (Genesis 2:24)
  
  THEREFORE man was made of flesh
  
  AND flesh is Strong's Greek 4561 (σάρξ [sarx]) which is the same word used in
  - the Septuagint's Genesis 2:21, Genesis 2:23, Genesis 2:24
  - the New Testament's 1 Corinthians 15:39, Romans 4:1, Colossians 1:22, Romans 8:8, 1 Corinthians 1:29, 2 Corinthians 5:16
  AND Adam transitioned into seeing he was naked (Genesis 3:7)
  
  AND Adam and Eve saw their flesh - naked is visible flesh
  
  SO first, in their flesh, Adam and Eve tried to cover up their flesh when it was just the two of them (Genesis 3:7)
  
  YET second, in their flesh, they attempted to hide from the presence of God (Genesis 3:8)
  
  THEREFORE evil of the flesh entered the sight of Adam and Eve (Genesis 3:10)
  
  SO the "old things", the first and default nature, is flesh (earthy, darkness, wicked, evil, death, natural) - in/by/of/for man
  
  BUT the "new things", the God fabricated new creature, is Spirit (heavenly, Light, righteous, good, life, eternal) - in/by/of/for Christ
  
  SO the "new creature" is made holy by the Holy God named Jesus Christ
  
  AND the "new creature" is in Christ, and only the "new creature", we born again by God, are in Christ
  
  AND in Christ all will be made alive (1 Corinthians 15:22)
God's merciful and loving actions as Benefactor are beautiful
FOR the Son of God established the Testament (Hebrews 9:16, Luke 22:20)

THUS Jesus the Lord proved His position of Benefactor in the Testament (John 12:31-33)
Our gracious Benefactor produces
1. divine choice of we beneficiaries unto salvation, for the Christ of us Christians says
  "you did not choose Me, but I chose you" (John 15:16) and "I chose you out of the world" (John 15:19)
  
  AND, Paul is in accord with Jesus' words for he wrote to the Ephesians "Blessed [be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly [places] in Christ, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him in love" (Ephesians 1:3-4)
  
  SO, clearly, Jesus' words in John 15:16 and John 15:19 state God exclusively chooses us believers by/of/through God
2. beneficiaries' faith/belief in Lord Jesus, for the Christ of us Christians says (see also a word about belief/faith (Greek πίστις pistis) and believe (Greek πιστεύω pisteuó))
  "This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He has sent" (John 6:29)
  
  AND Paul is in accord with Jesus' words for Paul wrote to the Ephesians "by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, [it is] the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are His work, created in Christ Jesus" (Ephesians 2:8-10)
  
  AND Peter is in accord with Jesus' words for Peter declared "God, who knows the heart, testified to them giving them the Holy Spirit, just as He also did to us; and He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith" (Acts 15:8-9)
  
  SO, clearly, Jesus' words in John 6:29 state for us believers to believe in Jesus whom the Father has sent is exclusively by/of/through God
3. beneficiaries' fruit of the Spirit/righteous actions/good works, for the Christ of us Christians says
  "he who practices the truth comes to the Light, so that his deeds may be manifested as having been wrought in God" (John 3:21)
  
  AND Paul is in accord with Jesus' words for he wrote to the Philippians "being filled with the fruit of righteousness that [is] by Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God" (Philippians 1:11)
  
  SO, clearly, Jesus' words in John 3:21 state fruit in we believers is exclusively by/of/through God
4. beneficiaries' birth by the Holy Spirit, for the Christ of us Christians says
  "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not be amazed that I said to you, 'You must be born again.' The wind blows where it wishes and you hear the sound of it, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going; so is everyone who is born of the Spirit" (John 3:5-8)
  
  AND Peter is in accord with Jesus' words for he wrote to persons residing as aliens "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead" (1 Peter 1:3)
  
  SO, clearly, Jesus' words in John 3:5-8 state we believers being born again is exclusively by/of/through God
5. beneficiaries' repent by God's working, for the Christ of us Christians says
  "I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent and have revealed them to babes" (Matthew 11:25)
  
  AND the apostles and elders are in accord with Jesus' words with thier saying, "Well then, God has granted to the Gentiles also the repentance that leads to life" (Acts 11:18)
  
  SO, clearly, Jesus' words in Matthew 11:25 state that God exclusively causes man to think differently after an encounter with God (repent means to think differently afterward)
6. beneficiaries' love by God's working, for the Christ of us Christians says
  "A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another" (John 13:34)
  
  AND John is in accord with Jesus' words for he wrote "Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God" (1 John 4:7, see the phrase "love is from God" meaning God is the source of true love)
  
  AND John expands with his writing of "God is Love, and the one who abides in Love abides in God, and God abides in him" (1 John 4:16, see the phrase "one who abides in Love" is equivocated with "one who abides" "in God" which extends from God's exclusivity with "God is Love")
  
  SO, clearly, Jesus' words in John 13:34 states that the love, true love (John 3:33), the very righteous love, the Godly love within us children of God, this love is exclusively by/of/through God
We beneficiaries are blessed receivers from the amazingly awesome Benefactor, for our Benefactor says:
1. "Any kingdom divided against itself is laid waste; and any city or house divided against itself will not stand. If Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself; how then will his kingdom stand? If I by Beelzebul cast out demons, by whom do your sons cast [them] out? For this reason they will be your judges. But if I cast out demons by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God has come upon you. Or how can anyone enter the strong man's house and carry off his property, unless he first binds the strong [man]? And then he will plunder his house." (Matthew 12:26-29)
  1. Jesus openly shames the Pharisee's accusation of Jesus being part of Satan's kingdom - they tried to tie Jesus with His casting out demons to Satan.
  2. Jesus openly exposes that He casts out demons by the Spirit of God!
  3. Jesus then clearly states that people in their unsaved state are the property of the Satan.
  4. Jesus demonstrates that Satan must first be bound so that God plunders from the house of destruction to then place the newly saved person into the Kingdom of God.
  5. SALVATION IS ALL THE WORK OF GOD!
  6. Jesus explains that the first state of man is being the property of Satan.
  7. Jesus explains that the Lord creates a new creature unto salvation.
2. "The one who sows the good seed is the Son of Man, and the field is the world; and [as for] the good seed, these are the sons of the kingdom; and the tares are the sons of the evil [one]; and the enemy who sowed them is the devil, and the harvest is the end of the age; and the reapers are angels. So just as the tares are gathered up and burned with fire, so shall it be at the end of the age. The Son of Man will send forth His angels, and they will gather out of His kingdom all stumbling blocks, and those who commit lawlessness, and will throw them into the furnace of fire; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Then the righteous will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear." (Matthew 13:37-43)
  1. Jesus responded to the disciples inquiry "Explain to us the parable of the tares of the field." (Matthew 13:36)
  2. The good seed is the work of God, these are the sons of the kingdom of our Father, forevermore glorifying the Father.
  3. The tares are the sons of the evil [one], the devil sowed them, the lawless ones will be thrown into the furnace of fire.
  4. The Christ's words here reflect back to where Jesus says "Any kingdom divided against itself is laid waste" (Matthew 12:26-29) above.
  5. SALVATION IS ALL THE WORK OF GOD!
THE BENEFACTOR ESTABLISHES A DEEPLY LOVING RELATIONSHIP WITH THE BENEFICIARY. PRAISE BE TO THE LIVING GOD!
Our loving Benefactor is the Just Judge
1. The Prophet Isaiah wrote:
  1. "And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah,
    
    Judge between Me and My vineyard.
    
    What more was there to do for My vineyard that I have not done in it?
    
    Why, when I expected [it] to produce [good] grapes did it produce worthless ones?
    
    So now let Me tell you what I am going to do to My vineyard:
    
    I will remove its hedge and it will be consumed;
    
    I will break down its wall and it will become trampled ground."
    
    (Isaiah 5:3-5)
  2. In Isaiah 5:4 as the surrounding verses impart context, only Jews are addressed, not gentiles; therefore, the Gentiles are not included in the conversation. God impartially declares punishment for the Jews, after all, the Jews rebelled - a damnable behavior/fruit.
2. The Apostle Paul wrote:
  1. [There will be] tribulation and distress for every soul of man who does evil, of the Jew first and also of the Greek, but glory and honor and peace to everyone who does good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For there is no partiality with God.
    For all who have sinned without the Law will also perish without the Law, and all who have sinned under the Law will be judged by the Law; (Romans 2:9-12)
  2. In Romans 2:11 as the surrounding verses impart context, God impartially executes punishment or reward based on behavior/fruit.
3. Scripture cannot be broken (John 10:35)
  AND God does shows favor to some
  
  BEHOLD Abraham - there were many other people on the earth at the time of Abraham
  
  SO God was partial toward Abraham in a favorable way.
4. God is impartial about executing punishment or reward.
5. God judges righteously (Psalm 7:11).
6. Exclusively God chooses some unto salvation (John 15:16-19).
7. Christ's atonement for sin on the cross pays the price of punishment for sin
  AND renders the sinner righteous by the Blood of Christ
  
  SO God credits the gracious work of Christ to the sinner's account resulting in reward for the cleansed sinner!
There is no level that a person can choose Lord Jesus
BECAUSE He said "You did not choose Me, but I chose you" (John 15:16) and "I chose you out of the world" (John 15:19)

AND Jesus, Lord and God (John 20:28), did not provide any exception for choosing toward Jesus

AND Lord Jesus speaks to all believers in all time because He also said "I do not ask on behalf of these alone, but for those also who believe in Me through their word" (John 17:20)

AND All these words of Jesus are at the self same supper (see also more of the Word of God integrating all believers in all time at the supper)

SO all glory is God's

AND with man, salvation is impossible (Matthew 19:25-26)

AND all glory in the salvation of man is God's (John 15:5, Isaiah 42:8)!

For thus says YHWH, who created the heavens (He is the God who formed the earth and made it, He established it [and] did not create it a waste place, [but] formed it to be inhabited) (Isaiah 45:18)

"I am YHWH, and there is none else.
"I have not spoken in secret, In some dark land;
"I did not say to the offspring of Jacob, 'Seek Me in a waste place';
"I, the LORD, speak righteousness, Declaring things that are upright.
"Gather yourselves and come;
"Draw near together, you fugitives of the nations;
"They have no knowledge, Who carry about their wooden idol And pray to a god who cannot save.
"Declare and set forth [your case];
"Indeed, let them consult together.
"Who has announced this from of old?
"Who has long since declared it?
"Is it not I, YHWH?
"And there is no other God besides Me, A righteous God and a Savior;
"There is none except Me.
"Turn to Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth;
"For I am God, and there is no other.
"I have sworn by Myself,
"The word has gone forth from My mouth in righteousness and will not turn back,
"That to Me every knee will bow, every tongue will swear [allegiance].
"They will say of Me, 'Only in YHWH are righteousness and strength.' Men will come to Him, And all who were angry at Him will be put to shame.
"In YHWH all the offspring of Israel Will be justified and will glory." (Isaiah 45:18-25)

In God's exclusive dominion, God restores communion with man

Who Causes What
God forms man in the womb.*
Man is born of the world.*
God causes man's conversion from the worldly realm to the heavenly realm.*
* As shown scripturally throughout this essay, and the below scripture.
Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, And before you were born I consecrated you; I have appointed you a prophet to the nations (Jeremiah 1:5)
And now says YHWH, who formed Me from the womb to be His Servant, To bring Jacob back to Him, so that Israel might be gathered to Him for I am honored in the sight of YHWH, And My God is My strength (Isaiah 49:5)
There is no one who does good, not even one (Romans 3:12, Psalm 53:3)
Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, And in sin my mother conceived me (Psalm 51:5)
Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest (Ephesians 2:3)
The wicked are estranged from the womb; These who speak lies go astray from birth (Psalm 58:3)
For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world (1 John 2:16)
I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh (Ezekiel 36:26)
Jesus answered and said to him, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God." Nicodemus said to Him, "How can a man be born when he is old? He cannot enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born, can he?" Jesus answered, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not be amazed that I said to you, 'You must be born again.' The wind blows where it wishes and you hear the sound of it, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going; so is everyone who is born of the Spirit." (John 3:3-8)
"I am no longer in the world; and [yet] they themselves are in the world, and I come to You. Holy Father, keep them in Your name, [the name] which You have given Me, that they may be one even as We [are]" (John 17:11)
"I do not ask You to take them out of the world, but to keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world" (John 17:15-16)
The Creation Account accurately describes true events in precise detail
1. the Grand Creator reveals the Creator's awesome Power of God in amazing splendor with the Creation Account
2. Almighty God provides loving instruction to the children of God using the Creation Account
3. holding to a teaching that deviates from the aforementioned is the creature's explicit and/or implicit denial of the Truth - rejection of the Word of God
  1. when the creature holds to a doctrine differing from the aforementioned then the creature tacitly and/or overtly declares "I am superior to God"
  2. regardless of the costume the creature wears, such as but not limited to these potenial endings for the "I am superior to God" sentence
    1. "for God does not know how to communicate properly"
    2. "for God meant millions of years instead of a day"
    3. "for there is no God"
    4. "for marriage can be of my definition"
    5. "for gender can be of my imagination"
    6. "for God gave me the equipment to enjoy myself in any way that I want since God gave it to me"
  3. It is written "do not add to His words or He will reprove you, and you will be proved a liar" (Proverbs 30:6)
  4. It is written of the new Jerusalem "no one who practices abomination and lying, shall ever come into it, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb's book of life" (Revelation 21:27)
  5. the guise does not matter, the creature calls God a liar
    SO such a creature in daring self will is under the wrath of God
4. Thanks be to God Almighty for the Christian account of the Creation Account for God has given us God's instruction for our good and the glory of God!
Man is incapable in all aspects that lead to salvation and sanctification
God saves (Psalm 3:8, John 15:5, John 15:19), and man has no say in the matter (John 15:16). God sanctifies (Leviticus 20:8, John 15:5). God gets all glory in the salvation and sanctification of man (Isaiah 42:8)
The Holy One Jesus reigns with the exclusive Power of God unto man's salvation and sanctification for the glory of God

In the beginning was the Word,

and the Word was with God,
and the Word was God.

He was in the beginning with God.
All things came into being through Him,

and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being.

In Him was life,

and the life was the Light of men.

The Light shines in the darkness,

and the darkness did not comprehend it (John 1:1-5)

the Word became flesh (John 1:14)

as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, [even] to those who believe in His name, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God (John 1:12-13)

"the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many" (Matthew 20:28)

God said to Moses, "I AM WHO I AM"; and He said, "Thus you shall say to the sons of Israel, 'I AM has sent me to you.'" (Exodus 3:14)

"Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was born, I AM" (Jesus Christ, recorded in John 8:58)

"I came forth from the Father and have come into the world; I am leaving the world again and going to the Father" (Jesus Christ, recorded in John 16:28)

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Essay Location: http://www.JesusDelivers.Faith/ChristianWritings/AlmightyGodsAwesomeCreationInAmazingSplendor/

Essay Title:

Almighty God's Awesome Creation In Amazing Splendor
or
A View To The Christ In The Creation Account

Essay Synopsis:

Adam, a Picture of the Christ; Eve, a Picture of the Assembly of God; God, The Sovereign Creator; An Essay about God's vivid imagery in the creation account of the gracious gospel of Christ.

Revised Date: Sat Mar 23 08:38:25 EDT 2024

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Email comments: Kermos <Kermos@JesusDelivers.Faith>

Maranatha Come, O Lord Jesus, Come