Arminians want to argue that to have free will is somehow against predestination and the election of God in salvation, but that is not what the Reformed confessions teach. For example in the Second London Baptist Confession of Faith it says, “God hath decreed … all things, … yet God [is] neither the author of sin … nor is violence offered to the will of the creature, nor is liberty taken away, but rather established”. When people claim that Calvinism says that there is no such thing as free will, nothing could be farther from the truth. The issue is the definition of free will, because many Arminians hold to a definition of free will that according to the Bible, not even God Himself has. So let’s start with a question: what is the nature of God’s free will?
Listen to the audio version here:
Timecodes
00:00 Nature of Free Will
05:08 Libertarian Free Will is False
16:17 You can only choose what pleases us
25:58 Fallen Man Chooses Evil
30:16 The Heart is the Problem
32:53 God Gives us Light to Make the Right Choice
51:11 How God’s Means Affect our Choices
59:09 Who Are We to Reply Against God
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