After this topic of the existence Free Will has been discussed at length and continues with errors, I was undecided
how to respond. I considered the using the scripture, definitions
of words and modern examples. But I do not think this would be adequate due to the nature the arguments being presented, So I decided to present one question.
Did Satan have Free Will when he sinned?
Yes?, then Free Will Exists
No?, Then God is the origin of Sin
Satan certainly had free will when he sinned, as did Adam and Eve before they fell.
Whether Satan has it now, the Scripture doesn't tell us; I suspect not.
But if you suppose that God did not know that Satan would sin and had not placed it within His eternal plan, you are very much mistaken.
Is free will, the right, to choose, weather to do good and or evil?
And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat? Gen 3:11 Gen 2:17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it:
Why did God not want them to know good and evil? Did he want them to have free will or not to have free will?
Was it, free will, that they took, for themselves? The knowledge of good and evil?
the passage is clearly stating that before they were saved (made alive) in Christ, they were dead in sin. Those who are not saved (the lost) are dead in sin.
You have it right. The unrepentant is not dead to sin, nor in sin.
The saved is dead to sin as compared to previously being responsive to sin. We have a new master We cannot listen to the old one.
God is God, and we are dirt-poor sinners.
He saves, and He damns.
He reigns supreme, and we as His creations are not in a position to negotiate with Him or to declare that He is anything other than what He says He is.
He is "sovereign" all the time, whether we, as men, like it or not.