Is freewill biblical or something we invented as society ?

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Here analzye it please


1. Oprah Winfrey’s life is a powerful example of how overcoming adversity can lead to discovering one’s purpose. Facing poverty and abuse in her early years, Oprah used her hardships as a foundation to build her career in media. Her purpose emerged through her passion for communication and empowerment, eventually leading her to become a global icon and philanthropist.


Key Takeaway: Adversity can be a catalyst for finding strength and clarity in one’s purpose.


2. Through Passion: Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs found his purpose by following his passion for technology and innovation. Despite dropping out of college, his love for electronics led him to co-found Apple Inc. Jobs’ relentless pursuit of excellence and his vision for the future of technology defined his purpose and revolutionized multiple industries.


Key Takeaway: Passion, when pursued wholeheartedly, can lead to profound and world-changing purposes.


3. Through religion: Mother Teresa
Mother Teresa discovered her purpose through her unwavering commitment to serving the poor and the sick. Her deep sense of compassion drove her to establish the Missionaries of Charity, dedicating her life to helping those in need and leaving a legacy of love and service.


Key Takeaway: Service to others can reveal a higher calling and a profound sense of purpose.


4.Through Exploration: Richard Branson
Richard Branson’s entrepreneurial spirit and willingness to explore new opportunities helped him find his purpose. From starting a student magazine to founding the Virgin Group, Branson’s adventures in various industries showcase how exploration and risk-taking can lead to a fulfilling and impactful life.


Key Takeaway: Embracing new experiences and taking risks can uncover one’s true calling.


5. Through Creativity: J.K. Rowling

J.K. Rowling discovered her purpose through her creative writing. Facing numerous rejections and personal struggles, she persevered and eventually created the beloved Harry Potter series. Her journey illustrates how creativity and storytelling can lead to finding one’s purpose and making a significant cultural impact.


Key Takeaway: Embracing and nurturing creativity can lead to discovering one’s purpose.

6. Through Activism: Malala Yousafzai
Malala Yousafzai found her purpose through her activism for girls’ education. After surviving an attack, Malala became a global advocate for education and the youngest-ever Nobel Prize laureate. Her courage and dedication highlight how standing up for a cause can define one’s purpose.

Key Takeaway: Advocacy and fighting for justice can lead to a purposeful and influential life.

7. Through Perseverance: Thomas Edison
Thomas Edison’s purpose was revealed through his relentless perseverance in the face of failure. Known for his many inventions, including the light bulb, Edison’s determination and refusal to give up despite countless setbacks exemplify how perseverance can lead to monumental achievements and a clear sense of purpose.

Key Takeaway: Persistent effort and resilience can help uncover and fulfill one’s purpose.

8. Through Innovation: Elon Musk
Elon Musk’s purpose emerged through his innovative vision and ambition to push the boundaries of technology. From PayPal to SpaceX and Tesla to X.com, Musk’s work focuses on advancing technology to solve global challenges, demonstrating how innovation can be a powerful driver of purpose.

Key Takeaway: Innovation and visionary thinking can lead to discovering and pursuing a transformative purpose.

9. Through Teaching: Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou found her purpose in teaching and writing. Her impactful poetry and autobiographies, alongside her role as a teacher and speaker, allowed her to share her wisdom and experiences, inspiring millions around the world. Her life shows how teaching and sharing knowledge can define one’s purpose.

Key Takeaway: Educating and inspiring others can be a fulfilling and purpose-driven path.

10. Through Personal Growth: Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela’s journey to finding his purpose was marked by personal growth and transformation. His 27 years in prison strengthened his resolve to fight against apartheid and for human rights in South Africa. Mandela’s life underscores how personal development and a commitment to justice can lead to discovering one’s purpose.

Key Takeaway: Personal growth and a dedication to justice can reveal a profound and impactful purpose.

Conclusion:
The diverse journeys of these famous individuals show that purpose can be discovered through various paths, including adversity, passion, service, exploration, creativity, activism, perseverance, innovation, teaching, and personal growth. Their stories inspire us to reflect on our own lives, embrace our unique journeys, and pursue our passions with dedication and resilience.
By exploring these ten ways of discovering purpose, we can gain insights into our own paths and find motivation to live a life of meaning and impact. Whether through service, creativity, or perseverance, the journey to finding one’s purpose is a deeply personal and transformative experience.
 

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This is perception of humans who have obtain their life purpose and their mission. But there is the biblical way and it is good.


1. First is to ask God why i'm here. He will answer and he will help ya and stat the path for you to know !


2. Then Pray to him, pray and pray to him. You will see some have pray for 40 years or more and did not recieve the answer and then they got their stuff.


3. Want it so much you want to know there are many who want to know why they exist for some they have been fooled and hurted by the world they don't care no more. They think they already have it and it is simple God doesn't care.

No he does care and he does want you to go do it. You have been teold by God, God sent your mother and gave postions in life and circumanstances that happen in your life that you know the universe moved the world. Like the 9/11 in new york, when you fell in love with the girl you want, and when you realize you want to know why your here. Their a moments when you almost got hit by a bus and realize God saved you, that you failed college but started a business and it si what you like, and you went to your adversity and found God and became baptized. Those are the moments your realize their is more to life they don't tell ya and thei a secret why you don't know in your life you have purpose and it's a special purpose and it's yours. Go want it !

4. Research it go ask your parents, go ask your friends and your teachers. Then go research it in the bible and you will find they did find it. It does exist people and compare to the prophets and God's people and see what is missing. Go pray to God for help. Do not give up continue and you withstand the tests and want it. He will give it to you. The bibel does say about putting a wieght over you God won't put that he will elt you move and do things. But pray to him.

5. No matter what people say they are wrong and if someone say to you in this forum or in real life you can't find them they are wrong. You can find your purpose and find the mission God gave when he sent you here. The world is wrong and they are fooled and want you to lose it but never give up ! God sent you here with mission and you must fight and support those those times but you will pass you will find why and above all do it and complete it. Be strong and smart makes the smart decisions and it will help ya. Their is more and wait pls.
 

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Please have patience like God has patience with you all. This is not bad here i'm talking about something very important. Why your here ? And for everyone has their version painters, writters, and ordinary people and here freewill come good things. I ask please to let me finish and when you see it maybe it is something God did give to all of us and it is good and will help you find the purpose. i'm not person who is asking money, niether fame, or grandeur.


One who know how much want to know why their here ? Why ? And If you red perhaps it will give that answer and find the reason of why your here and freewill and you do his plan did find out that he did gave you mission and it is personal.

I apologize sometimes i'm too forward and put things hard and the what give is hard and some do know freewill thanks to what we talk and many people have told thru the intenret they like what they read. No way do I look to offend you or to hurt anyone. But here will help you and will help find the reason why he sent you and Why your here and find the answer to do it. Please look at the end and it will not disappoint !
 

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3. Through religion: Mother Teresa
Mother Teresa discovered her purpose through her unwavering commitment to serving the poor and the sick. Her deep sense of compassion drove her to establish the Missionaries of Charity, dedicating her life to helping those in need and leaving a legacy of love and service.


Key Takeaway: Service to others can reveal a higher calling and a profound sense of purpose.

So Steve Jobs and Oprah did not find their calling and purpose. All they found was a trade and the same trade grabbed them and bound them. Because all humans were created for God's purpose. The world is an illusion, there is no spoon.
 

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When God was preparing to judge Nineveh, he sent an unwilling Jonah to preach judgement there. The judgement was based upon Nineveh's wickedness - not God's will for the city. Nineveh was spared because through their free will the whole city repented of their wickedness.

If God's Will was being done perfectly on Earth, we would be experiencing Heaven on Earth. The vanilla statement "Thy Will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven" is itself God's Will. Jesus would not command his followers to pray something that was not God's Will and "be" is the present tense. There is no sin or sickness in Heaven.
Reformed dogma claims God unconditionally elects to salvation, that grace is irresistible, and therefore the Holy Spirit is irresistible.


This is easily seen to be false.


Jesus came only for Israel. Matthew 15:24.


They were God’s elect. Isaiah 45:4


Yet His own, that He came for, REJECTED Him. John 1:11:


Joh 1:11 He came unto HIS OWN, and his own received him NOT.


Jesus, who is God, yearned for His own elect people whom He came for, to come to Him - but they refused:


Mat 23:37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and YE WOULD NOT!


This is impossible in Calvinism - for the elect, who Jesus came for, to resist and reject salvation - yet they did just that.


Act 13:45 But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.


Act 13:46 Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should FIRST have been spoken to YOU: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.


This happened because God gave us free will, and the Holy Spirit is resistible - there is no such thing as irresistible grace.


Stephen preached to the same elect Israelites (Isaiah 45:4) who Jesus came for (John 1:11) who He yearned would come to Him (Matthew 23:37) and told them WHY they killed the prophets God sent, and rejected and killed their own Messiah when He came for them: because they RESIST the Holy Spirit.


Act 7:51 Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always RESIST THE HOLY GHOST : as your fathers did, so do ye.


Act 7:52 Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who announced beforehand the coming of the Righteous One, whom you have now betrayed and murdered (Jesus).


The Holy Spirit, without which no man can say Jesus is Lord, is resistible, because of free will.


Faith comes by hearing Gods word Romans 10:17, not by first being regenerated, and grace is resistible because the Holy Spirit is resistible.


Salvation is not guaranteed from having faith, man has freewill to receive Jesus John. 1:12, or resist the drawing by the HS and reject Jesus, as the elect Israelis did, when Jesus came for His OWN John 1:11.


There is NO irresistible grace or unconditional Election.


Israel, Gods elect, resisted the Holy Spirit and rejected Jesus, their savior.


As Jesus said to them:


Joh 5:39 Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.

Joh 5:40 And ye WILL NOT come to me, that ye might have life.
@grumix8, you misunderstand Calvinism completely. That belief system believes in God's plans for everything, as the Bible teaches, AND at the same time, full human responsibility for the decisions we make. Both are true according to the Bible, and Calvinism accepts both, therefore. Joseph with his brothers expresses it well in explaining to them God's grace in accepting them,

Gen 50:19 But Joseph said to them, “Do not fear, for am I in the place of God?
Gen 50:20 As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today.

Thus, humans are fully guilty for their sins, while God is not.
 

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Bruce, Bruce apology for not writting have jobs to do and work in real life. Do have an answer to Edward. But Bruce I have told you and others, Calvin is not the foundation of decisons and freewill in bible God is. And we have answers to questions and found more questions to questions but to the foundation of God is God he decides he is mysterious decisions in his plans. Here the whole talk is to find the plan of God and like shown in the bible in Deuteronomy. He gave us choice and prophets talk about free chioce and found why they were sent. What is our part in plan of God and people find their reason and their purpose. We have found that God does have a plan he did made roads for all of us and history Rome, Babylon,Greece, and the modern world follow that road and were going to end times as God word has said and prophets said.

We have bible verses that show we do have a purpose and a planned by God and he sent us with a mission. We have shown biblically that we are meant to worship and dedicate our lives to God and obey his commands. We have gone the long road and found he does have a special mission for us. God did sent us randomly and without plan, God did not create the universe by just luck or bad planning. He planned everythign and gave choices to let beings and people decide in his creation, his universe and to do his plan and his will. God is perfect and he did for a secret reason some people life and some find out what that is and how others lives are planned. Prophets, pastors, presidents, leaders in the world God gave each a different purpose and some of us are given mor wisdom to find that Bruce. God does things in secret in our life how he made our paths and others don't know why their here and some have earned it and others have not earn it to be revealed. It depends on the life and person and he is with God's will and love. If he or she is God's people they will find those purpose and know the why their here.

Apology Bruce I will ask if you know, not the been servants and worship God constantly by reading the bible and singings songs of jubilee and psalms like shown that are his commands. And discuss the others things that God wants earth to be like heaven.


But the personal mission he sent you if it is to save your mother in Jesus Christ ? Save a person in your life and God sent you to do ? Find that job you wanted ? Be a writter and make a book ? Find true love and find the woman you want ?
 

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God did not send you to this world Bruce without a reason and a mission. I assure you we are all send to this world and everyone is special and unique their is no copy of us or human like us in our behavior and original being he made us to be. We have different fingerprints, eyes and brain no other humans has exact duplicate of us. There people who might look like us but no matter what is not the same as spirit and unique character each human is made. Each is sent for a purpose and don't find out their purpose and mission. Horrible sad thing so many in this world pass away and some do good baptized and find thier purpose and mission and others don't. It is the hard things in life and christians must pass
those tests. It isn't easy for no one. But God has a purpose and all our decisions are shown in the end when we die and get revived by Jesus. God show us we had choices and the thinsg we don't know and realize our parents do for us, the things friends and families did in our life good and bad God reveals to us in our life wr had chances to change our life and do his will. Find that mission, find that true love, or save that person. God will reveal to us in the end times after we die our judgement and all things we didn't know but is more important Bruce to find it before we die.


Calvinism is not the foundation of freewill or his commands or decision or where first time the phrase " The plan of God" was said. I did not say Calvinism is foundation of mine, it is not. But where prophets actions in the bible and I heard pastors say about God's plan and were all part of it. Like Macarthur has said it, Billy Graham has said it and Doug Batchelor have said we are part of God's plan, his commands and all purpose come from him . I wanted to know what is God's plan and why he sent me and Calvinism is something that talks about it and Judaism talks about it to about God's divine plan we search scholars and others famous people who asked how they decided and what purpose they are here.
Calvinism is not God some have demonized him and his character when none of you were born and met him. People Calvinism was just one of the first christian branches talking of why were here in their times and ask the question what are we supposed to do ? He was not perfect no one is perfect but was one who ask the question about freedom of choice and use the words "freewill" and I again I say their are people who are trying to demonize him he is not God and he did he's best in times with some much prejudice and hate and we are going into times like that.


I did not involve Calvinisim in this dicussion so you go be a calvinist no your good being a modern protestant dont' want you to go for that or if you jewish it is good that. Here were all talking with Goal of to find that to find true love, save that person, get that dream of being a writter, or why he sent you to do it. Apology do not want offend and do not be offended perhaps God sent you this way to find that and also apology for I pray for you to find it and because it is God's will. He does want you to achieve those things and the world is a lie and it is Babylon. Confusement and how to find it because they educate us in the school to not look for it and obey what the system says. And fall to money and error education they give us. I know how you and others suffer to find that mission and pray for you to find and be happy and achieve it all.

I have met elders from my church who find their purpose being butlers and pastors. And find peopl who in real life after going thru ways and pass thier test being gentiles and christians do find their purpose and done their personal mission.
 

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No people the world lied to you and the devil is the leader of this world not Jesus even he is the owner of it. And the devil made sure to leave things in confusement and mess up the system and leaves us how we are. God did not want this remember he wanted us to be the Eden with him and praising and worshipping with him. Go find it becuase time is running out for the world and we are in the end times. And God's sent us here for a mission and if it is too hard okay pray for you and it is not easy it is worth it. To look for it is worth it and pray for you. Look to be baptized and if you want pray for it and pray for it. He will deliver it remember it is worth it and you will find why your here. Just get hard but better mkae the decision don't go later regretting all your life. Because you won't like it I assure you if you don't look for it find and live the bible with it and God will bless he does give it if you pray and pray. And show you are his people because he does everything for a reason. He loves ya but does not put a weight you can't support and if you ask him he will give it because you are ready.

God does give more and rewards he is not blind of good works but do you really trust him and if you do will you not fall from your path ? Not all of us have the same path and his plan is to save us in baptism and not to for us to do bad works but teach us in the end of suffering what is important and love with all your heart. But to find true love and find the real things of the bible and something that path will take you to sorrow and grief and it is what he wants us for Iron sharpens Iron. And what will you recieve if find that personal mission and achieve it. It will answer all your promblems and find that answer you were looking for.


Pray for you to find it, remember i'm not the bad guy. I'm not the enemy do not wish for to you to offend and be offended. I discuss things with biblical verses and show he does have a mission and commands unto us he made for us to obey and do his will. He has plans and has a heart God gave us a path and a lot of us don't know unfortunately, he did sent you for a purpose. And he wanted you to be saved and loved, he wanted you to love others like you were saved. The promblem is this world and it is babylon. The truth is that you don't know your still not God's people ! Be God's people reject babylon and show God your his people and ask for him to give you that mission and find it. Pass God's test and he will give it to you. It is hard but worth it. Pray for you becuase it can be achieved and it can be given. He does not make it hard for you and if you ask he will amke it ahrd for you but it will solve your promblems do pray for it because I know many don't know and I ask other and they don't know. God is with you and he loves ya and wants you to find it.
 
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