free will

IssuesEtc on Free Will

This is an interesting discussion by some Lutheran pastors on free-will and salvation. They even discuss Roman Catholic and Protestant differences. One of the questions at about the 20 minute mark by email was concerning God’s foreknowledge. It was along the lines of if God knows what you’re going to eat for dinner is it [...]

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Unchangeable Free Will

I know that yesterday I am going to eat chocolate chip ice cream. That can’t change. It cannot change. It already happened. I ate the ice cream, and even though that’s not going to change, I had free will to not eat the ice cream. Even though I am telling you today that that I [...]

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Irresistible Prevenient Grace

Motivated by C. Michael Patton’s post: A Brief Rejection of Arminianism or “Why Arminianism Does Not Work” I’m reposting one of my old articles below. I may be about a week late to the game, but Pastor Gary L. W. Johnson over at the Teampyro blog finishes his three part post entitled Arminianism: Semi-Pelagianism? I [...]

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Prevenient Grace is Irresistible

I may be about a week late to the game, but Pastor Gary L. W. Johnson over at the Teampyro blog finishes his three part post entitled Arminianism: Semi-Pelagianism? I am not here to argue that Arminianism equals semi-pelagianism either directly or practically. I think Greg Welty argued well and reasonably that it doesn’t. I [...]

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Blog Bites: Appealing to Free Will

I was flipping channels the other day and came across something on Daystar. I think it was Daystar. Anyways, it was some sort of Bible teaching and I was just thankful that it was the ole health and wealth stuff that is often on as Bible teaching. Well, I hear a statement that went something [...]

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