Puritanhead
Puritan Board Professor
I'm a sovereign grace guy... I sing Amazing Grace how sweet the sound not Amazing Free Will!
Man's problem is not the lack of a will per say, but rather that he is in bondage to his will, and that will is to sin. Nothing save the grace of God, the free unmerited grace of Jesus can free man from that bondage. Some Calvinists wrestle with whether not they believe in so called "free will." The problem is Christian world reads the salvific inference into man's will. Something about being "dead in sins and trespasses," goes against a man freely seeking God. I freely embraced the Gospel of Grace, because he God first loved me, and God renewed my depraved heart, mind and will. Dead men don't raise themselves as Lazarus' resurrection was not a cooperative joint venture between Jesus and Lazarus.
Ian Paisley once said some preachers think man's heart is depraved, his mind is corrupt, but his will is pretty good. Sovereign grace people have to stand up for the Gospel and repudiate cult of "will-worship" in the spirit of 2 Tim. 2:24, of course, by quoting Scripture and explaining total depravity and the limitations of man's will.
[Edited on 12-20-2004 by Puritanhead]
Man's problem is not the lack of a will per say, but rather that he is in bondage to his will, and that will is to sin. Nothing save the grace of God, the free unmerited grace of Jesus can free man from that bondage. Some Calvinists wrestle with whether not they believe in so called "free will." The problem is Christian world reads the salvific inference into man's will. Something about being "dead in sins and trespasses," goes against a man freely seeking God. I freely embraced the Gospel of Grace, because he God first loved me, and God renewed my depraved heart, mind and will. Dead men don't raise themselves as Lazarus' resurrection was not a cooperative joint venture between Jesus and Lazarus.
Ian Paisley once said some preachers think man's heart is depraved, his mind is corrupt, but his will is pretty good. Sovereign grace people have to stand up for the Gospel and repudiate cult of "will-worship" in the spirit of 2 Tim. 2:24, of course, by quoting Scripture and explaining total depravity and the limitations of man's will.
[Edited on 12-20-2004 by Puritanhead]