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Q: I have been reading the Old Testament and it has made me feel very discouraged. 1) I understand that we can only be saved by Jesus, nothing we even do or think can save us. 2) I understood that we might not have free will, but we have free choice. 3) Reading verses where God sent evil spirits, or gave them permission to do harm or to lie, etc. I know that God is good and no evil comes from Him, but 4) I have all these conflicting thoughts and questions, I was under the impression the enemy could attack wherever he could get the opportunity, but if the enemy has to get permission from God before he can attack does it basically come from God? 5) I had a rough childhood, and like most people having health issues as well. I am still young, 6) I know that I don't even deserve the light of day, but 7) why did God make me? 8) What if I too take too long to change my ways and He gives me over to my fleshly desires and hardens my heart? How many chances do we get and do we really have fr...

God's Soverenty & Mans Free Will  Discussing Unbelief.  God saves, but those who reject Jesus, all responsibility for the sinners unbelief falls on the sinner. Condemnation is because the sinner is unwilling. Judgment is never attributed to God, but the unwillingness of the sinner. Judgement is not a matter of God being unwilling to recieve (Scripture is clear on that; whosoever, come to me). Judgement is not attributed by some decree by God or his unwillingness to receive a sinner. The sinners condemnation is never cuz of some limit in the atonement work of Christ; as if there's no way to include these people as if theres no provision for them. Judgment is never attributed to a lack of invitation, we take the gospel to the world. It is never attributed to a lack of information. The sinners judgment is simply & entirely the sinners unwillingness to believe. It is about Unbelief. -John MacArthur  Cr: Deity of Christ pt3  John 5:40 "Not willing" 7:17 "If yo...