God has given us the right to take personal desires or ideas and live by them. God has created man beautifully and has given him a superior decision-making intellect by which he can choose the right thing according to his needs between good and bad. God has also said that if you like good things there is a reward and if you like bad things there is a punishment.
We find many examples in the Bible where we clearly see that God has given man the ability to exercise free will. God placed Adam and Eve in the beautiful garden and gave them the freedom to live as they wished. On the other hand, we see that in the Old Testament God accepted the nation of Israel as his own children but they expressed their choice by worshiping idols as a form of disobedience to God.
Through the teachings of Jesus in the New Testament, we see that Jesus invited mankind to be saved from sin but he never forced anyone, he gave freedom to everyone and according to that freedom he taught that you who believe in me will see eternal life.
The Bible teaches us that we have personal opinions or freedom to make choices but with that freedom, we have certain responsibilities that are very important for us to fulfill because God will hold all our works and He will judge us.
John 8:36
“If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed”
John 6:70
“Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil?”
Romans 8:29
“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”
John 6:44
“No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day”
John 8:2
“And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came unto him; and he sat down, and taught them”
Romans 8:1
“There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit”
Galatians 3:22
“But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe”
John 15:16
“Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you”
James 1:25
“But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed”
Romans 8:2
“For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death”
Job 31:15
“Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?”
Luke 10:22
“All things are delivered to me of my Father: and no man knoweth who the Son is, but the Father; and who the Father is, but the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal him”
Ephesians 1:4
“According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love”
John 3:3
“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”
Romans 6:15
“What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid”
Romans 8:21
“Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God”
2 Corinthians 3:17
“Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty”
Revelation 3:20
“Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me”
Revelation 13:8
“And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world”
Romans 8:7
“Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be”
Psalm 127:3
“Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord : and the fruit of the womb is his reward”
Galatians 2:4
“And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage”
Galatians 5:13
“For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another”
Galatians 5:1
“Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage”
1 Corinthians 3:17
“If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are”
Ephesians 3:12
“In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him”
Galatians 5:2
“Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing”
Psalm 97:10
“Ye that love the Lord , hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked”
Psalm 79:9
“Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name: and deliver us, and purge away our sins, for thy name’s sake”
Acts 13:48
“And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed”
2 Timothy 1:7
“For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind”
1 Peter 2:2
“As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby”
John 3:16
“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”
John 8:32
“And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free”
Psalm 119:45
“And I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts”
Revelation 1:1
“The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John”
1 Corinthians 3:2
“I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able”
Jeremiah 1:5
“Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations”
1 Corinthians 6:12
“All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any”
Psalm 68:6
“God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land”
Deuteronomy 30:19
“I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live”
Romans 6:18
“Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness”
Psalm 79:2
“The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth”
2 Thessalonians 2:13
“But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth”
Galatians 1:15
“But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me by his grace”
1 Corinthians 6:4
“If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church”
Joshua 1:8
“This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success”
Romans 6:23
“For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord”
Romans 6:2
“God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?”
1 Peter 2:16
“As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God”
Romans 6:14
“For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace”
Psalm 34:19
“Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord delivereth him out of them all”
Galatians 6:7
“Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap”
1 Corinthians 10:13
“There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it”
John 8:34
“Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin”
Joshua 24:15
“And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord , choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord”
Psalm 34:3
“O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together”
Isaiah 61:1
“The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound”
2 Corinthians 3:5
“Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God”
1 Corinthians 9:19
“For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more”
Psalm 118:5
“I called upon the Lord in distress: the Lord answered me, and set me in a large place”
2 Corinthians 5:17
“Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new”
Luke 4:18
“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised”
Romans 6:22
“But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life”
2 Peter 3:9
“The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance”
Romans 8:22
“For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now”
