ashwise Posted November 22, 2011 Group: Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 10 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 27 Content Per Day: 0.01 Reputation: 5 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/13/2011 Status: Offline Share Posted November 22, 2011 Can God open up a closed person's mind or would that be a violation of free will? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneLight Posted November 22, 2011 Group: Royal Member Followers: 22 Topic Count: 1,294 Topics Per Day: 0.21 Content Count: 31,762 Content Per Day: 5.23 Reputation: 9,762 Days Won: 115 Joined: 09/14/2007 Status: Offline Share Posted November 22, 2011 Yes, He can. I am not sure He would, for even through His creation we can see Him. He just will not force anyone to accept Him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashwise Posted November 22, 2011 Group: Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 10 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 27 Content Per Day: 0.01 Reputation: 5 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/13/2011 Status: Offline Author Share Posted November 22, 2011 Awesome. But what about through prayer can a person help God try and open that person's mind? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~candice~ Posted November 22, 2011 Group: Royal Member Followers: 5 Topic Count: 955 Topics Per Day: 0.16 Content Count: 11,318 Content Per Day: 1.89 Reputation: 448 Days Won: 33 Joined: 12/16/2007 Status: Offline Share Posted November 22, 2011 What about the testimony of Paul the Apostle? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nikaoman Posted November 22, 2011 Group: Members Followers: 1 Topic Count: 2 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 22 Content Per Day: 0.00 Reputation: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 11/08/2011 Status: Offline Birthday: 01/04/1959 Share Posted November 22, 2011 I believe that we can pray for the spirit of blindness and confusion to be cut off in a persons life. And also that lying spirit of deception to be cut off, and for the Holy spirit to reveal truth to them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneLight Posted November 22, 2011 Group: Royal Member Followers: 22 Topic Count: 1,294 Topics Per Day: 0.21 Content Count: 31,762 Content Per Day: 5.23 Reputation: 9,762 Days Won: 115 Joined: 09/14/2007 Status: Offline Share Posted November 22, 2011 Awesome. But what about through prayer can a person help God try and open that person's mind? By allowing His will to be done in your life, you are doing all you can for everyone you come in contact with. They will see God in you. You can pray that His will be done in another persons life, which is loving them as God does, but God will allow each person to decide for themselves. Paul, in his heart, was following God the best he knew how. God did not force Himself onto Paul, but gave Paul the opportunity to see Him for who He is. You see, Paul was already seeking God, but his pride was blocking him. He thought he had all the answers, but Jesus proved him wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enoob57 Posted November 22, 2011 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 35 Topic Count: 100 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 41,184 Content Per Day: 7.98 Reputation: 21,460 Days Won: 76 Joined: 03/13/2010 Status: Offline Birthday: 07/27/1957 Share Posted November 22, 2011 We are the evidence before them-> always when around us they watch us... We shall always continue in Him... He is without beginning and end->In Him we begin! We have received eternity to Learn of and worship that which is learned of Him... Unlike now, where we can harden in our hearts and take for granted the uniqueness of His Witness of Himself in creation and His Word, then we shall know perfect worship and awe... to stand in God's purity of purpose and without regard to any thing else in perfected praise, adoration and Love shall clothe our hearts in His presence! He says we cannot know what this shall be like, but if the forgiveness we have experienced already in Him and the newness of heart and mind still yet fails toward this communication of that time, all I can say is ..... I am Longing for it to become! Love, Steven Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Massorite Posted November 22, 2011 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 38 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1,973 Content Per Day: 0.32 Reputation: 36 Days Won: 2 Joined: 04/26/2007 Status: Offline Birthday: 11/13/1953 Share Posted November 22, 2011 Can God open up a closed person's mind or would that be a violation of free will? Every single soul is called of God to believe in him but I believe it would be a violation of free will for God to directly intervene into a persons mind. However I believe that God would send folks into a persons life to talk to them or we could be called to pray for a persons mind to be opened or God might send an event into that persons life to make them re-think thier position on God. I once talked to a lady about Jesus who was into drugs and partying and just living wild and it didn't seem to make a difference but two years later that lady came to the same church I was attending and gave her life to the Lord. She came to me and told me that she never forgot the words I spoke to her about Christ and that thoose words are the words that made her come to church that day. But it was her dicision alone to turn her life over to Jesus and now she is a great woman of God who heads a prison ministry. That lady was a complete stranger before I talked to her about Jesus and I had forgotten that I had ever talked to her. God works in mysterious ways. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnD Posted November 26, 2011 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 0 Topic Count: 905 Topics Per Day: 0.19 Content Count: 9,646 Content Per Day: 2.02 Reputation: 5,832 Days Won: 9 Joined: 04/07/2011 Status: Offline Share Posted November 26, 2011 Ask the prophet Jonah. He won't force you to go. He won't force you to go. He won't force you 'gainst your will to go. But, he'll certainly make you willing to go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bold Believer Posted November 26, 2011 Group: Royal Member Followers: 2 Topic Count: 121 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 1,931 Content Per Day: 0.35 Reputation: 126 Days Won: 8 Joined: 01/22/2009 Status: Offline Birthday: 07/13/1955 Share Posted November 26, 2011 Can God open up a closed person's mind or would that be a violation of free will? He is the ONLY one who can. There is no such thing as free will, all are slaves to sin in the natural state. Salvation is the gift of God, salvation does not come by the will of man. See John 3 and Ephesians 2 and Romans 9. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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