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What is the difference between "free choice" and "Godly Calling"?

I cover a lot of this ground in Menu item 17 Leaving an Organization.  Free choice is something humans in the World have.  Once we are called by God, we give up free choice as we know it.  We become a soldier in God's Army or a slave to Jesus Christ.  Godly Calling is among the highest of all spiritual elements.  It all begins with a calling from God.  In this calling, God calls all the shots and our only choice is obey or not, submit or not, remain steadfast or fall away, sin or repent.  Notice some scriptures on our Godly Calling:

Rom 8:28-30
28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.

Note:  We are called according to His purpose.  We must love God and allow ourselves to be conformed to the image of His Son, Jesus Christ.  We decrease and allow Him to increase by the power of the Holy Spirit.

2 Tim 1:9
9 Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began.

Note:  Again, we are called according to His own purpose.  Clearly this calling is detailed, specific and extensive.  It is all consuming.

Eph 1:11
11 In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:

 Note:  We were predestinated to this purpose billions of years ago.  God's will prevails over anything in our will.

1 Cor 1:26-29
26 For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:
27 But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;
28 And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are:
29 That no flesh should glory in his presence.

Note:  People easily glory in their own decisions, but God has set up a design wherein Christ acts in and through us, with Him getting all the praise and thanks and glory.  He makes the decisions.  We bend and submit to His will.  Christ gave us this example when He said, "but nevertheless, but your will be done Father.

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