Free will, a misnomer or misunderstanding
We do not have free will. If you believe in original sin then
you understand that free will is impossible. Man is stained with sin, burden by
it, more to the point, influenced by it. It’s been termed the noetic effects of
sin, which is the effect sin has on us that we are not consciously aware of.
Man’s nature was altered after the fall. Purity in righteousness is not our
being anymore. It is impossible for man to be righteous on his own accord. Sin
is inevitable.
We do have free will to sin, but not to do righteousness.
Nothing stops man from sinning. But sin itself will stop man from
righteousness.
There is only one way to righteousness and that’s the blood
covering of Jesus Christ. He is our righteousness. It is only through Jesus
that we are made acceptable in the eyes of the Lord.
It is the only way.
Bill Hitchcock
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