Christianity Offers Freedom of Choice and Freewill to all.

I explained the reasoning of the topic with the following: Okay... lets say, you were found guilty of... uh... lets say disobeying a law of some kind. Nothing really bad, violent or gruesome but you were found guilty. Now the penalty, for breaking that law, is that you will be tortured and then if you survive, be put to death. Suppose, that I hear of your plight and I tell you, that I love you more than anything else in the universe; even more than even the life of my only child, that I will gladly give, in your place, to let them mutilate, torture and ultimately kill. To make it an even better offer, you can live in a palace for all eternity with riches beyond your wildest dreams with me in my perfect city in the afterlife. All you have to do is believe, with all your heart, that I am your one true God. I will allow nor offer any proof whatsoever that I am who I say. I will send my "holy ghost" to comfort you and to help you understand the book, written by other mortal men, just like yourself, to be my "holy words" for you to use as a guide. Oh, there is also an evil "devil" that will tempt you because I let him to help build your "faith" along the way. I will let him, at times, touch you with illness, troubles, trials and other evils all to help you become a stronger believer in me. Oh, there is just one very last thing, IF you do not take my offer... then your soul belongs to the "devil" and you will be tortured, for all eternity, in a place I made for him and all his followers, that were not happy with my perfect city. You are free to choose either way you want and always remember I love you, so very, very much. The above tells you the context I used in stating that "Christianity Offers Freedom of Choice and Freewill to all." is actually a fallacy and NOT true. I then gave reference to scriptures that tell what "Christianities" claim freewill is. 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. John 3:16-18* 1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. 6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God MUST believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. Hebrews 11:1,6* Are you actually free to choose, if your choice is between serving your "god" or be tormented for all eternity. That is like saying "You can be free to serve me or a slow painful death" If you do not have an acceptable choice to choose then how can it be a choice? If you do not accept slavery then you are not experiencing freedom but having your option dictated to you. If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honour. John 12:26* For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's freeman: likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ's servant. I Corinthians 7:22* No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. Luke 16:13* I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. Romans 12:1* Even in our society you have the choice to live by our laws, convicted for breaking our laws or if the laws seem unfair you can choose to work to change those laws that you think are unfair. That is what it will take for a religion to really offer freewill, to give you the ability to select a choice that gives you freedom to choose without automatic condemnation for your choice. If I say I love you as long as you do what I say then I do not really love you. If I say I will care for you but only as long as you do what I tell you then I do not really care for you. If I say I will always keep you safe but only as long as you are in my favor then you are not really secure are you? If I offer to give you eternal life but only as my slave then I am not really offering you life but eternal servitude. If I offer you freedom but only what freedom means to me... are you really free? Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. John 3:3* If "god" demands that you accept "god" or else but does not allow you to just be born, live, love and die and then cease to exist, is "god" offering you freewill and a choice or just dictating that you accept only what "god" wants you to take? So which is your "choice"? And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him: Revelation 22:3* or And will this be what "god" forces your "eternity" to be? And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:15* There is no freewill. In fact freewill is never used in the "bible" in saying that we have freewill, the only time freewill was used was in the Old Testament in reference to "freewill offerings" and in one other Old Testament scripture. BUT NEVER in the New Testament so the term freewill is not scripturally accurate. There is no choice, the "bible, god's word," dictates either accept and serve or face the anger of "god's" wrath and it's consequences. * King James Perversion