This is an idea I’m still grappling with. Here is a good compilation of quotes and Scripture:
…is there such a thing as “free will”?
Scripture mentioned:
John 6:37, John 6:44, Ephesians 2:1-3, Ephesians 2:8-9, Titus 3:4-7
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- 2 Corinthians 4:8 “Crushed” and the REB Translation Rendering
- Heidelberg Catechism / Confession Here
- Philippians 4:13 TNIV
- Counter-Cultural Verse of the Day
- Saying or Praying “God Willing”
- Brief NLT Study Bible Observations
- Some Bible Images for Suzanne McCarthy and TC Robinson
- Who Were the Puritans?
- Quote of the Day
- Differences in the NLT1 and NLTse
Yes, there is free will. However, there is also Omniscience. (Hope I spelled that right).
Hi Lu,
Yes that’s spelled correctly.
I’m still reading about free will. I think there needs to be a distinction between free will, freedom of choice and responsibility. Maybe for a future post.
In John Piper’s devotional for this week he recommends the book The Freedom of the Will by Jonathan Edwards.
Here is a review for a book called Election and Free Will
“I do not come into this pulpit hoping that perhaps somebody will, of his own free will, come to Christ. My hope lies in another quarter. I hope that my Master will lay hold of some of them and say, ‘You are mine, and you shall be mine. I claim you for Myself.’ My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and not from the freedom of the will.”
–Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Wonderful view about ll, Grace, Mercy, Holy Spirit | Scripture Zealot. I enjoy this articles.
Thank you BN.
Here some more posts I found:
On The Free Will of Man
On The Free Will of Man II
On The Free Will of Man III
Is being born again up to us? by John Piper