How much are you willing to give up for salvation?

Literal bicameral mind

>You just pull this out of your ass?
Read Ephesians, it's right there.
>The first thing God imbued's Adam and Eve with is free will.
The whole point of the story is that they didn't have free will UNTIL they ate from the forbidden fruit.

>"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)

You can't have free will to make decisions if you lack the capacity to understand their implications.
Nowhere in the Bible does it say God wanted to give humanity free will. If anything, freedom is consistently condemned. Paul describes Christians as slaves to Christ, after all.

Ephesians 6:5-8
>5 Slaves, obey your earthly masters with respect and fear, and with sincerity of heart, just as you would obey Christ. 6 Obey them not only to win their favor when their eye is on you, but as slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from your heart. 7 Serve wholeheartedly, as if you were serving the Lord, not people, 8 because you know that the Lord will reward each one for whatever good they do, whether they are slave or free.

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>soulblind NPC replies
Know ye not that ye are gods?

Salvation is a gift from God, but to believe in Jesus is to follow his commandments. He commands us to repent from all sin. By grace, through faith.

The word is elohim, used as "sons of God", which is actually Jesus quoting a passage from the book of psalms, instructing earthly judges to remember they will also be judged

Elohim literally translates to "Children of El" as huge swathes of the Old Testament are derived from Canaanite Mythology (and El is the Highest God of the Canaanite pantheon).

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>The whole point of the story is that they didn't have free will UNTIL they ate from the forbidden fruit.
Wrong, they already had the capacity of free will, otherwise they could not have chosen to disobey Gods command.

Did you forget they only did so at the behest of the snake? The story's even more fucked up when you realize they were literally children (having just been created).

Wrong. Elohim is a category of beings which are spirit and without earthly bodies. Elohim is used 5 separate ways in the old testament. Canaanites turned from the one true God, but Abraham met Melchizedek on the road who was STILL a worshipper of the Most High

They did at their own behest, they mad es choice to disobey God. How could they do so without free will?

They were talked into it by the snake, dumbass.
It literally means "Children of El" - the word was used in Canaanite mythology before the Old Testament was ever written

matthew 38:4
jeremaya 36,8:3
jacobius 42:09 only first verse
timotheus 04:19
hylax and phylax 243:91
occilatius 19:007
brutus 7
acidophilus 18:02

the list goes on and on and on. bro let me tell you there are a whole lot of fitting examples and i havent even started yet to name them all.

How can a snake override the will of the supreme creator? They necessarily had to possess free will to make a choice other than Gods will. QED
The name of God is also Elohim, the most high is referred to as elohim repeatedly, because the word means spirit beings, of which elohim is the most high

>american niggerkikes shart the thread before it even had a chance
Nice going...again.

What this means is not that your works dont matter, you nitwit, but that its not your actions specifically that serve as the mechanism but God's grace itself. In precise and simple terms this means that you can't save yourself, God has to save you. But in all formulations of Christian religion God has a criteria you must adhere to to be saved.

Whether or not you meet the criteria to recieve His Grace and how you do so is a matter of religious debate.