"I know, O LORD, that a man's life is not his own" Is Jeremiah's prayer saying there is no free will?

Question

Deist

Answer 1

I don't believe so.  If there was no free will, we would all be puppets.  God doesn't want puppets.  He did not create us for that purpose.

Answer 2

What Jeremiah meant was that his life belonged to God and was His to take when He pleased.

Answer 3

I freely gave my life to God.

Jeremiah did as well.

Answer 4

The prophet recognizes by this that no one owns their own life. That that life came from God, belongs to God and should be at His disposal. That man's free will is best used by freely choosing to follow God and by doing His will in all things.

Remember, God gave man three great gifts. The first is the gift of being. We are NOT intrinsically necessary to anything. The second is intelligence, a part of being that is definitely in His image. The third makes the first two worth having. That is free will. Jeremiah understood this truth and he celebrates it.

Answer 5

It's the ego that rants about free will. The Spirit is happy to be love.

Answer 6

We have free will, you know that.  Those who are saved and close to the Lord are secure as they are brave to walk by faith.  It is not an easy life so if someone wants to say God is their crutch they are not being fair or understanding.  We don't have a life of our own because we belong to Christ but we know we are much better off than all the confused people who don't know the Lord and have no knowledge of God.

Answer 7

It's not saying there is no free will, rather that no matter what you do, universally, you aren't in control.

Answer 8

Assuming that the universe was created by an omniscient and omnipotent God, the universe is basically functioning as a Rube Goldberg device in which the outcome of events is already known beforehand.

Assuming that God actually created the universe, he could be held responsible for all the evil and the lack of justice in the world, including but not limited to the existence of the evil superbeing we know as Satan.

There can be no free will in a universe created by someone who knew what would happen when he set the wheels in motion. Think about it this way, if you are playing the game "Mousetrap" and you turn the crank, by a series of events too complicated to explain the net will fall. You know it will fall before you turn the crank. You cannot then claim that you are not responsible for the falling net regardless of how many steps it took to get there.

If God is omniscient and omnipotent, then destiny is inevitable and free will is impossible.

Answer 9

Not really.  It's saying your god's slave

Answer 10

only if you live in america