The assertion that God has given humanity "Free Will" is the least Biblical argument that anyone could ever make. The reason people hold so tightly to "Free Will" is because that is the only argument that can place all blame on humans, and absolve God of all evil and injustice. The Bible NEVER teaches that God has given men "Free Will." On the contrary, the Bible consistently teaches that God is sovereign and that God always does whatever he wants, and there is no one or nothing that can overpower or change God's plans. The Bible never defines "Free Will", so we need to define it here. The word "will" means desire or intention. Of course everyone has a will, but do we have a "free" will? When you modify the "will" with the word "free", the result is that our desires or intentions are uninhibited or uninfluenced by any other person or force, including God. 

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The whole purpose for discussing "Free Will" is to blame humans for all evil and to absolve God of evil. Therefore, whenever a man kidnaps and abuses a child, the man is 100% responsible for that evil, while God had absolutely nothing to do with that man's decision or inclination to conduct his evil acts. Unfortunately for the believer, if God gave man "Free Will," that would also be the reason why God could not intervene to protect the child. If God prevented the man from kidnapping the child, then God would have to override the will of the man, and exert his own will over than man's will. Believers are apparently completely unaware that the Bible consistently teaches that God is sovereign over the will of man. Though you can find many Bible verses that suggest humans can make a choice, you cannot find a single verse in the Bible that says human choices are independent of outside influences from God or Satan. I want to list Bible verses now that prove my point, while trying to withhold my commentary. You should be able to see how each verse opposes "Free Will." 

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The following verses are categorized and numbered for your reference.

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I. God does whatever he wants (even evil)

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I.1. Job 23:13, but he stands alone, and who can oppose him? What his soul desires, even that he does.

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I.2. Psalms 33:10-11, Yahweh (the Lord) brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples of no effect. The counsel of Yahweh stands forever. The thoughts of his heart to all generations.

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I.3. Psalm 139:16, your eyes saw my body. In your book they were all written, the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there were none of them.

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I.4. Proverbs 16:1, The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from Yahweh.

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I.5. Proverbs 16:4, Yahweh has made everything for its own end, yes even the wicked for the day of evil.

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I.6. Proverbs 16:7, when a man's ways please Yahweh, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

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I.7. Proverbs 16:9, a man's heart plans his course, but Yahweh directs his steps.

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I.8. Proverbs 19:21, there are many plans in a man's heart, but Yahweh's counsel will prevail.

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I.9. Proverbs 20:24, a man's steps are from Yahweh, how then can man understand his way?

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I.10. Proverbs 21:1, the King's heart is in Yahweh's hand, like the watercourses, he turns it wherever he desires.

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I.11. Isaiah 45:7, I form light and create darkness. I make peace and create calamity. I am Yahweh, who does all these things.

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I.12. Isaiah 46:10, I declare the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done. I say, "My counsel will stand, and I will do all that I please."

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I.13. Isaiah 64:8, but now, Yahweh, you are our father. We are the clay and you our potter. We all are the work of your hand.

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I.14. Jeremiah 10:23, Yahweh, I know that the way of man is not in himself. It is not in man who walks to direct his steps.

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I.15. Matthew 6:10, your Kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in Heaven.

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I.16. Matthew 11:25, Jesus said, I thank you father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you hid these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to babes.

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I.17. Matthew 11:27, all things have been delivered to me by my father. No one knows the son except the father, neither does anyone know the father except the son and he to whom the son desires to reveal him.

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I.18. Acts 4:27-28, (Herod, Pilate, Jews, and Gentiles gathered together to do) whatever your hand foreordained to happen.

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I.19. Romans 9:11-12, for being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him who calls, it was said to her, "the elder will serve the younger." 

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I.20. Romans 9:16, so then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who has mercy.

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I.21. Romans 9:17, for this very purpose I caused you (Pharaoh) to be raised up, that I might show in you my power, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.

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I.22. Romans 9:18, so then he has mercy on whom he desires, and he hardens whom he desires.

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I.23. Romans 9:19, you will say then, why does God still find fault, for who can withstand his will? 

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I.24. Romans 9:20, will the thing formed say to the one who formed it, "why have you made me like this?"

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I.25. Romans 9:21, or hasn't the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one a vessel for honor and another for dishonor? 

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I.26. Romans 9:22-23, what if God, willing to show his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, and that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory.

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I.27. Romans 11:36, for of him and through him and to him are all things.

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I.28. 1 Corinthians 12:6, there are various kinds of workings, but the same God who works all in all.

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I.29. 1 Corinthians 12:11, but the one and same Spirit produces all these (spiritual gifts), distributing to each one separately as he desires.

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I.30. Ephesians 1:4-5, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love, having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire.

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I.31. Ephesians 1:11, we were also assigned an inheritance in him, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who does all things after the counsel of his will.

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I.32. Philippians 2:13, for it is God who works in you both to will and to work for his good pleasure.

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II. God hardens hearts

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II.1, Exodus 4:21, Yahweh said to Moses, "When you go back into Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the wonders which I have put in your hand, but I will harden his heart and he will not let the people go."

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II.2. Exodus 9:35, the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he did not let the children of Israel go, just as Yahweh had spoken through Moses.

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II.3. Exodus 10:1, Yahweh said to Moses, "Go in to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the heart of his servants, that I may show these my signs among them.

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II.4. Joshua 11:20, for it was of Yahweh to harden their hearts, to come against Israel in battle, that he might utterly destroy them, they they might have no favor, but that he might destroy them, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

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II.5. Isaiah 63:17, O Yahweh, why do you make us wander from your ways, and harden our heart from your fear? Return for your servants sake, the tribes of your inheritance.

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II.6. Jeremiah 13:23, can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Then may you also do good, who are accustomed to do evil.

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II.7. Amos 3:6, does the trumpet alarm sound in a city without the people being afraid? Does evil happen to a city, unless Yahweh has done it?

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II.8. Mark 4:11-12, (why did Jesus speak in parables) to you is given the mystery of God's Kingdom, but to those who are outside, all things are done in parables, (12) that seeing they may see and not perceive, and hearing they may hear and not understand, lest perhaps they should turn again, and their sins should be forgiven them. 

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II.9. John 12:39-40, for this reason they couldn't believe, for Isaiah said, he has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, lest they should see with their eyes, and perceive with their heart, and would turn, and I would heal them. 

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II.10. Romans 8:7, because the mind of the flesh is hostile toward God, for it is not subject to God's law, neither indeed can it be. 

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II.11. Galatians 5:17, for the flesh lusts against the spirit, and the spirit against the flesh, and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.

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II.12. 1 Peter 2:8, they stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which they were also appointed.

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III. God teaches certain people

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III.1. Psalm 25:8-9, Good and upright is Yahweh, therefore he will instruct sinners in the way. (9) He will guide the humble in justice. He will teach the humble his way. 

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III.2. Psalm 25:12, what man is he who fears Yahweh? He shall instruct him in the way that he shall choose. 

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III.3. Psalm 32:8, I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go. I will counsel you with my eye on you. 

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III.4. Isaiah 48:17, Yahweh your redeemer, the Holy one of Israel says, I am Yahweh your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way that you should go. 

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III.5. Jeremiah 31:33-34, but this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says Yahweh, I will put my law in their inward parts, and I will write it in their heart. I will be their God, and they shall be my people. (34) they will no longer teach their neighbor, and every man teach his brother saying, "know the Lord" for they will all know me from the least to the greatest, for I will forgive their iniquity and remember their sin no more. 

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III.6. Matthew 10:19-20, but when they deliver you up, don't be anxious how or what you will say, for it will be given you in that hour what you will say, for it is not you who speak, but the spirit of your father who speaks in you. 

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III.7. John 6:44-45, no one can come to me unless the father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up in the last day. (45) it is written in the prophets, "they will all be taught by God." Therefore everyone who hears from the father and has learned, comes to me. 

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IV. God is responsible for everything

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IV.1. Deuteronomy 8:17-18, and lest you say in your heart, "My power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth." (18) but you shall remember Yahweh your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he swore to your fathers, as it is today. 

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IV.2. Psalm 51:10-12, create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me. (11) Don't cast me from your presence, and don't take your Holy Spirit from me. (12) Restore to me the joy of your salvation. Uphold me with a willing spirit.  

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IV.3. Jeremiah 29:11, for I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

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IV.4. Ezekiel 36:26-27, I will give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh. (27) I will put my spirit within you and cause you to walk in my statutes. You will keep my ordinances and do them. 

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IV.5. Matthew 19:25-26, the disciples were astonished and said, who then can be saved? Jesus said, with men it is impossible, but with God all things are possible.

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IV.6. John 1:12-13, but as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God's children, to those who believe in his name (13) who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. 

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IV.7. John 3:27, John answered, a man can receive nothing unless it has been given him from heaven. 

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IV.8. John 6:65, Jesus said, for this cause I have said to you that no one can come to me, unless it is given to him by my father.

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IV.9. Romans 8:29-30, for whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. (30) Whom he predestined, those he also called. Whom he called, those he also justified. Whom he justified, those he also glorified. 

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IV.10. 1 Corinthians 3:6, I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase.

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IV.11. 1 Corinthians 4:7, for who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn't receive? But if you received it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

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IV.12. 1 Corinthians 15:10, by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God was with me.

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IV.13. 2 Corinthians 3:5, not that we are sufficient of ourselves to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God. 

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IV.14. Ephesians 2:8-9, for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God, (9) not of works, that no one would boast.

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IV.15. 2 Timothy 1:9, who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal.

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IV.16. 2 Timothy 2:25-26, perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth (26) and they may recover themselves out of the devil's snare, having been taken captive by him to do his will. 

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IV.17. Titus 3:5, not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit.

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IV.18. James 1:17-18, every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning. (18) Of his own will, he gave birth to us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.