1. Is God absolutely sovereign or is He not? If He is not He is therefore limited in some way. Does that not make Him more like us? Is He currently fighting against the devil and darkness, trying to do “the best He can”?
2. How do you present a God to the world that is simply trying the best He can but will ultimately lose the vast majority of His creation?
3. If Jesus paid for all the sins of the world did He get what He paid for?
4. Did God lose the vast majority of the human race?
5. Was the first Adam more powerful than the last Adam?
6. Did Adam’s fall bring down more people than the cross of Jesus Christ could save?
7. Has Jesus been defeated by Adam, sin, death, hell and Satan?
8. Is the devil more powerful than Jesus?
9. How can you defend the concept of man’s free-will over God’s will when there is no disputing that He will have every knee bowing and every tongue confessing that “He is Lord”? Is this against their will or is it at this point voluntary? If it is voluntary are they then thrown into an eternal hell anyway? What is the nature of this bowing if it is said to be “for the glory of the Father,” and not Judge?
10. If you believe God preserves man’s free will how do you explain how in order to preserve mans’ free-will He must violate His own?
11. What exactly is the age of accountability? And what line of reasoning might it lead one to? How would you respond to the cases where people took this doctrine seriously and ended the lives of their innocent children in order to guarantee their safety from a 90%+ possibility of being eternally tortured?
12. Is free-will really the test of true love? Perhaps it appears so from our human understanding. But if God is the freest Being in the universe then none of us are truly free until we are in alignment with Him, the only Source of true freedom. To be gathered up into God’s perfect freedom after we have “come to our senses” by God’s sovereign means will not be spurned as “forcing our will.” Just as Paul did not object to being “coerced” into following Christ but rather became someone who was filled with “inexpressible joy.”
Freedom by definition means not being controlled by another. But the relationship of God’s will to us, is not one of making us do something against our will, but by bringing our will into union with His. This is not coercion but causation by the force of love which ultimately worked by God leaving us to ourselves to do what we would do left to ourselves; which was to crucify His Son, and then to love such enemies back to Himself by the power of forgiving love.
13. How do you defend your view of the free-will of man in light of Pharaoh, Esau, Jonah, and the apostle Paul to name a few?
14. When you consider heredity, family upbringing, social and economic status, and the time and location you are born can you really believe that humans have free-will?
15. Man obviously has been given a certain amount of free-will, within bounds, where temporal harm can occur but do you really believe God gives man the ability to do irreparable and irreversible harm? Do you believe there can be any irreducible tragedies in God’s Story (Talbott)?
16. What did Jesus mean when He said, “When I be lifted up I will draw (literally drag) everyone to Myself” (John 12:30)?
17. Don’t you think that the only one in the universe who is truly capable of “free will” is God Himself?