CONSCIOUSNESS IS NOT SELF-SUSTAINING, AND NEITHER IS ANYTHING THAT OCCURS WITHIN THE CONSCIOUSNESS GOD SUSTAINS
Human consciousness does not arise from itself. It is not self-powered, self-generated, or self-sustaining. Scripture makes it clear that “in Him we live, and move, and have our being” (Acts 17:28). Paul says God “gives to all life, and breath, and all” (Acts 17:25). That means consciousness—your ability to think, choose, feel, decide, breathe, and exist—is upheld every nanosecond by God’s ongoing creative energy. Nothing in your inner life is autonomous from God because you cannot even be conscious without Him.
If consciousness depends on God for its very existence, then everything that happens within that consciousness also depends on God. Human will, human breath, human decisions, human faith—none of these are self-originating. They flow from the consciousness that God sustains. If the root (consciousness) is not independent, then the fruit (choices, thoughts, beliefs) cannot be independent either.
Paul dismantles human autonomy directly:
- “God is operating in you to will and to work for His delight.” (Philippians 2:13)
—Your will is not independent; God operates it. - “What have you that you did not receive?” (1 Corinthians 4:7)
—Not even the ability to think or believe originates from yourself. - “To you it is graciously granted to believe.” (Philippians 1:29)
—Faith itself is not self-created but God-given. - “One God and Father of all, Who is operating all in all.” (Ephesians 4:6)
—There is no sphere of consciousness outside His operation.
This completely destroys the false idea of self-sustaining free will. Consciousness is not some independent platform from which humans launch autonomous decisions. It is a divinely maintained environment in which God carries out His purpose.
So when people argue, “God cannot control us because humans cannot control each other,” they are making a category error. They compare creature to creature, then wrongly impose that limitation onto the Creator. But God is not another creature. He is the very Source of being. You cannot treat His relationship to us as equivalent to one human attempting to dominate another. Humans are separate beings. God is the One in Whom all beings live and exist.
To say God cannot influence or govern human will is as absurd as saying the sun cannot influence its own rays. Your will exists only because God sustains the consciousness in which will occurs. Therefore:
Consciousness is not self-sustaining—so nothing happening within your consciousness can be independent of the God who sustains it. Not your breath. Not your choices. Not your faith. Not your desires. Not your “free” will.
This is why Paul rejects human self-determinism and replaces it with divine operation:
- “All is of God.” (2 Corinthians 5:18)
- “God locks all up in stubbornness that He may be merciful to all.” (Romans 11:32)
- “There is one God, operating all in accord with the counsel of His will.” (Ephesians 1:11)
Nothing within human consciousness is independent of Him—because consciousness itself is not independent of Him. God does not merely influence your life from the outside; He upholds your existence from the inside. The creature lives within the Creator’s sustaining presence.
So when people cling to the myth of free will or autonomous faith, they are not defending Scripture. They are defending the illusion of self-existence. But Paul exposes this illusion and reveals the truth:
God is the Source, Sustainer, and Operator of all consciousness, all will, all faith, and all life.
David understood this sovereignty deeply:
“You knit me together in my mother’s womb… all the days ordained for me were written in Your book before one came to be.”
— Psalm 139:13,16
If God wrote every day before your birth, then your story isn’t open-ended — it is purposefully authored. The environment you were born into…
your DNA…
your intellect…
your personality…
your traumas and triumphs…
— all of it was designed by God (Exodus 4:11; Isaiah 45:7).
So the popular idea of “free will” — the notion that we operate independently of our Creator — is a human fantasy, not a biblical truth. To believe in free will you must believe in a self-existent consciousness, a power source inside yourself that does not depend on God. No such thing exists.
God Is Not Like Us: Stop Imposing Human Limits on the Creator
One of the greatest misunderstandings in religion—whether Christianity, Judaism, Islam, atheism, or philosophy—is the assumption that God must operate under the same limitations that humans do. People say things like:
- “God can’t control us—because another human can’t control us.”
- “If God directs human decisions, then free will doesn’t exist.”
- “God must give us freedom to choose Him, otherwise love isn’t real.”
All of these statements make the fatal mistake Paul warns about in Romans 1:23—they reduce God to the image of man, imagining Him as a superhuman bound by our same restrictions.
“They changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man.”
— Romans 1:23
Human free-will theology tries to place the Almighty on the same playing field as creatures made from dust…as if God sits helpless in heaven wringing His hands, waiting to see what we will do. But Scripture teaches the exact opposite:
God is the Source of everything—life, breath, consciousness, existence, will, and purpose.
We Cannot Exist Without God
Paul states it plainly:
“In Him we live and move and have our being.”
— Acts 17:28“He Himself gives to all life and breath and all things.”
— Acts 17:25
If God gives breath, then we breathe because He wills it.
If God gives life, then we live because He sustains it.
If we move, it’s because He empowers movement.
How foolish to say God cannot control us because another human cannot control us.
Humans are created beings—God is the Creator.
Comparing creature limitation to divine sovereignty is absurd.
“Without Me you can do nothing.”
— John 15:5
Not some things.
Not spiritual things.
Nothing.
Even our consciousness is sustained by God’s power every millisecond.
“He is before all things, and in Him all things consist (hold together).”
— Colossians 1:17
Every heartbeat, every electrical signal in the brain, every breath, every neuron firing exists because God operates it continuously. Consciousness is not self-existing—it is derived, sustained, and powered by God.
How Can Anyone Claim “Free Independent Will” From God?
If a man cannot live, move, think, or breathe without God, then what is free will?
“For God is operating in you both to will and to work for His good pleasure.”
— Philippians 2:13
God operates our will.
God operates our actions.
We are clay, not potters (Romans 9:20-21).
The delusion of human sovereignty is the oldest lie in existence—“You shall be as gods” (Genesis 3:5).
Religion still preaches that lie today.
People say:
- “God can’t force belief.”
- “God wouldn’t make decisions for us.”
- “God cannot override free will.”
Yet Scripture says:
“He does according to His will… none can stay His hand or say to Him, ‘What are You doing?’”
— Daniel 4:35
If no one can resist His will, then human autonomy is a myth:
“For who has resisted His will?”
— Romans 9:19
Free-will theology reduces God to a failed manager whose plans depend on human cooperation.
But Paul reveals a God whose plan never fails:
“Who is operating all in accord with the counsel of His will.”
— Ephesians 1:11“As in Adam all die, so in Christ shall all be made alive.”
— 1 Corinthians 15:22“God will have mercy on all… for God locks up all in stubbornness that He may have mercy on all.”
— Romans 11:32
God’s sovereignty is not a theory—it is the foundation of Paul’s gospel.
Stop Reducing God to Human Limitations
God is not restricted by anything He created—not physics, not time, not consciousness, not human choice.
“My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways.”
— Isaiah 55:8
Humans think God is like us waiting for decisions.
Scripture says He predetermines all things.
Humans think God must ask permission.
Scripture shows Satan himself must ask permission (Job 1–2).
Humans think God cannot control wills.
Scripture says He hardens whom He wills and softens whom He wills (Romans 9:18).
Human religion says:
“God tries, but many resist.”
Paul says:
“He must reign until He has put ALL enemies under His feet.”
— 1 Corinthians 15:25
Human religion says:
“Most will burn forever.”
Paul says:
“The last enemy that shall be ABOLISHED is death.”
— v.26
Human religion says:
“God wants to save all but can’t.”
Paul says:
“God our Savior… wills that all mankind be saved.”
— 1 Timothy 2:3-4
The Freedom of the Creature Is Not Independence From Its Creator
To speak of human “freedom from God” is like a lamp bragging that it shines without electricity.
We are not autonomous.
We are derivative beings powered by God’s energy.
And in the end:
“God will be All in all.”
— 1 Corinthians 15:28
Not some in some.
All in all.
That is the radical gospel of Paul—the message religion fears.
Conclusion
Stop comparing God to us as if He is just a bigger version of a man.
Stop speaking of free will as independence from the One who sustains existence itself.
Stop imagining that God’s sovereignty waits for human permission.
He is God—
the source of consciousness, breath, motion, existence, purpose, and life.
“For out of Him and through Him and to Him is ALL.”
— Romans 11:36
Everything begins in Him, operates through Him, and returns to Him.
That is the God of Scripture—
not the small, helpless deity of religion.
ebooks and paperback books:
Tract: What If Everything You’ve Been Told About God is Wrong
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FXBM4QGV#
Evil in the hands of a loving God
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FR68ZSB3
Unlearning Christianity: Exposing Christian Myth
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FQX7NX7D
In Perfect Control: God’s Sovereignty Over all Creatures and Every Detail
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FFQ8P9FW
Eternal Shores: A Love story of Grace and Truth
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FPT3HJMQ
Death Dies: How God Ends the Grave for Everyone
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FPGH2YRY
No Free Will, No Hell
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FP32Z8XD
The Potter’s Fire: The End of Empty Religion
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FNY9T3SJ
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