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God Determines All – A Response to Godismyjudge
In response to my recent post (link) on some fundamental problems with LFW, Godismyjudge (Dan) has provided a response (link). This is my rebuttal to his response. Ultimately, the problem I have with Dan’s response is this: our position is that God sovereignly determines all of history. We don’t have any problem asserting that God…
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On Freedom In Choices – Response to "Orthodox"
I had written: The fact that men do make choices, and that some of those decisions are free, does not mean that they are free in the sense required by Arminian, Molinist, or Open Theist interpreters. “Orthodox” responded: If you admit that some decisions are free, you have a lot of work to do to…
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Calvinist Free Will at Work
This interesting video, which I found thanks to the JollyBlogger, provides an excellent illustration of the fact that man’s will chooses according to reasons, which call “causes.” We would not say that the men in this video were forced to choose the advertising scheme they selected, nevertheless, their choices were clearly not free in a…
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Thoughts on Free Will
Dear Non-Calvinist Reader, As you think about your views on free will, here is something to consider: There is a future, one future, and only one future. What that future is, is already known to God and to those to whom God has revealed it. Their knowledge of the future cannot (present tense) be otherwise,…