Supposed gain or loss of free will no yardstick of war
It is an ancient lie: “Destroy the enemy’s will to fight!” But of course, that presumes free will exists at all, much less that the enemy has ‘free’ will ‘too’.
God says that good and evil are not linked by a cause and effect of man but that men walk into what was already there. God shows some that the world was here and all in it (things like speech, hearts, souls, emotions, other people…) before they got here. He doesn’t show that to others and He sets us all side by side such that we walk the same earth at the same time.
Ecc 7:14 In the day of prosperity enjoy good, and in the day of adversity consider: God hath also set the one beside the other, to the end that man should find out nothing of what shall be after him.
When your only wisdom is the lie of free will, (you actually think free will exists) you necessarily have a difficult time expressing to those who suffer under that same lie any progress in a war wherein you set up the ideaology/lies of the enemy as legitmate governments in Iraq and Afghanistan and never catch the mouthpiece of the pagan lies that attacked you.
Those deceived the world rotates on free will necessarily have a hard time quantifying success in war:
“Tell us straight, Mr. President. Have we gained free will or lost any? What’s our progress here?” Anti-Christ asks through them.
To which anti-Christ speaks through Mr. President and replies: “We’ve given some to the Iraqi and Afghanistani peoples.”
“But .. but.. we’re not sure that’s an answer, Mr. President.
We can’t be certain who is ahead and behind on the free will scorecard. What is the threshold, the quantity ‘x’ at which we can all agree the enemy has lost so much free will that they can’t recover? How much free will are we getting and they are losing per dollar spent? You can see our problem, sir. We are accountable, responsible for such free will as we have got!”
“Although four years have gone by since September 11, government agencies have still not agreed on criteria to measure progress against terrorism, even though billions of dollars have been spent,” said Raphael Perl, author of the internal report by the Congressional Research Service.
“The risk is that without these criteria, we just take action and we measure progress retrospectively against what we’ve done. And of course since we’ve done some stuff, we’ve made progress,” he told Reuters in an interview on Monday.
Statistics often cited by U.S. officials — such as the death or capture of more than two-thirds of top al Qaeda leaders and the seizure of over $200 million in terrorist funds — do not show how much damage has actually been inflicted on militant groups, the report said.
What else can they say but more lies that supposedly prove free will? It is their only speech. Like the Babylonians, the Mayans, the Aztecs, and innumerable other civilizations in the midst of their prosperity and pride, it seems if their speech, thoughts and emotions make sense to them it must be permanent and if not, so what? They have no thought of God as He really is. Their speech doesn’t permit it.
But there is an end. Though they say to him “Lord Lord”, to God as Word, their speech is same as saying nothing.
Matthew 22:11-13 And the king, having gone in to see the guests, beheld there a man not clothed with a wedding garment. And he says to him, My friend, how camest thou in here not having on a wedding garment? But he was speechless. Then said the king to the servants, Bind him feet and hands, and take him away, and cast him out into the outer darkness: there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.
In the Name of Jesus Christ, Amen
Am I now come up without Jehovah against this place to destroy it? Jehovah said to me, Go up against this land and destroy it. 2 Kings 18:25
Anti-Christ tried the lie that God had sent him to conqueor Jerusalem through the Assyrians. But God says to the worshipers of demons who hate Jesus Christ and Israel: "But I know thine abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, And thy raging against me." 2 Kings 19:27