Board Thread:Bible Questions/@comment-29848406-20160903220806/@comment-3508553-20160907215045

AChildOfGod wrote: When you say we are punished for using free will, I assume you mean we go to Hell for misusing our free will. If this is what you mean, then listen to this. That is not the case. People are sent to Hell because they ignored God all their life. Hell is actually a place where God is not. It is a dark place that is "free" from God's presence. So God, being a gentleman, respects our choice. If we ignore God during our life, God gives us what we want by sending us to Hell. If we follow God during our life, God gives us what we want by sending us to Heaven.

I hate to cardinally interject, but what of Romans 2:12-14: Romans 2:12-14King James Version (KJV) 12 For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law; 13 (For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified. 14 For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:

How does free will, articulate with that singular passage?

(if you read the rest of said minor chapter, you'll find that the entire chapter 2 of the book of Romans is fitting within a block of certain themes of Romans, all of which mainly point to forgiveness for sin, and free will)

However, this particular verse, means, that via free will-as long as your community has not defined something that the bible *considers wrong* then it's not wrong. "They are a guide unto themselves...."

Ελισάβετ(talk)(εποχή) 21:50, September 7, 2016 (UTC)