Free Will and God’s Sovereignty
Are we born with a free will? To answer this question this article dispels the misconceptions about free will, and then looks at the relationship between free will, the sovereignty of God, and human responsibility.
Are we born with a free will? To answer this question this article dispels the misconceptions about free will, and then looks at the relationship between free will, the sovereignty of God, and human responsibility.
This article demonstrates that no one truly believes in free will. It shows that if your will is truly free, it chooses without concern for any given object. The article concludes by showing that there is no gospel where there is free will.
This article raises a number of features of Pelagius and Pelagianism, including his emphases in his theology (e.g., his view of free will).
What do most people mean when they say that they believe in free will? This article argues that although a person may have a will, that will has no power to effect anything that the person decides. The will is subject to your already existent moral condition, the condition of your heart. Read the article to consider this argument in detail.
Was Gottschalk, the ninth-century monk of Orbais, standing alone in his preaching of the sovereignty of God? This article indicates that it was not the case that in a time when Semi-Pelagianism dominated, he stood alone. Investigation of eighth and early ninth-century literature reveals an influence of Pelagian and Semi-Pelagian soteriology.
Pelagius believed that man has free will and therefore is able to contribute to his salvation. This teaching became known as Pelagianism. The article discusses this false teacher and teaching.
If free will refers to the freedom of the will to choose and act of itself, without coercion, then it is proper to ask: does man have a free will? This article looks at the two answers given by libertarianism and compatibilism to the question of the sovereignty of God and its relationship to human responsibility, which shapes how one understand free will.
Does man have a free will? This article argues that when you consider man's moral and spiritual condition, the claim of free will remains a myth.
There are those who preach salvation that is based on good works and the free will of man. There is also salvation based on God's grace. This article shows that to preach a salvation dependent on man's free will goes against the grain of Scripture. It gives four reasons why this is so.
What is at stake in the debate over free will and the sovereignty of God? Is it possible to take seriously human freedom and at the same time honour God’s absolute sovereignty over his creation? If God is the one who determines the course of events in the lives of men, how can man be responsible for his actions? Should Christians still pray if God in any way holds the future in his hands?
Romans 9:17-18 has been a key text throughout church history for debates concerning predestination, reprobation, and free will. How should we understand the hardening of Pharaoh's heart? Beale attempts to reflect on these issues through an exegesis of each hardening passage in Exodus 4 to Exodus 14. Only brief comment is made about Romans 9 at the conclusion of the discussion.
When the Reformers claimed that man has no free will, they did not deny the truth that man has free agency. What is the difference? This is what the article explains
This article looks at the relationship between the sovereignty of God and man's free will. The author maintains that it is impossible to talk about man having a free will.
How did you come to believe in Christ? Answering this question rests in understanding: man's total inability, God's sovereign power in election, free will, the gift of salvation, the work of the Holy Spirit, the well-meant offer of the gospel.
An unregenerate person does not possess free will. Only in Christ is the will is freed. It is in Christ that man can please God again.
This article looks at the response of the Puritans to Arminianism when looking at salvation and its relationship with divine sovereignty and human responsibility. Does man act out of free will, or not? The author also discusses man's will and God's sovereignty in relation to mission work.
This article looks at the topic of free will through two theories: incompatibilism (the Arminian view) and compatibilism (the Calvinist view). The author shows that when it comes to choosing for God, man does not possess free will. Also, free will never operates outside God's sovereignty.
This article demonstrates how philosophy and theology can be integrated based on a discussion of the sovereignty of God and free will.
In this article are notes on the doctrine of sin, highlighting the results of sin on unbelievers and the concept of total depravity. The discussion of free will and the bondage of the will forms part of these notes. The author also looks at how sin was viewed through history.
In this article on free will and moral responsibility, the author also discusses libertarianism, compatibilitism, and freedom and moral decisions.
This article on the Westminster Confession of Faith Chapter 9:4 is about free will.
This article on the Westminster Confession of Faith Chapter 9:2 is about Adam, free will and freedom.
This article on the Westminster Confession of Faith Chapter 9:1 is about free will and the sovereignty of God.