Board Thread:Bible Questions/@comment-29848406-20160903220806/@comment-26538658-20160905023731

I suppose one could answer your question in this way:

Instead of looking at the choice being whether to use your free will or not to, perhaps it's whether or not to use it in a way that is pleasing to God. Of course, often that means going against what you want earthly, and it's hard to. Nearly impossible. I'm a living example of it. Every day we do what we want earthly, and living "for today". But what Jesus taught, the saints taught, and what God repeatedly told us was to not look entirely on now, but to think of the consequences of your actions, both earthly and eternally. ust like a baby brother or sister, we want to follow in our parents' and older siblings' footsteps. We won't do it perfectly. We'll mess up. Every day I do, you do, and we all do. But what matters is that you tried, and that you knew you can't be crawling forever, and needed to grow up out of such "childish" things.