Augsburg Confession: Of Free Will
Augsburg Confession Article XVIII: Of Free Will. Of Free Will they teach that man’s will has some liberty to choose civil righteousness, and to work things subject to reason. But […]
Augsburg Confession Article XVIII: Of Free Will. Of Free Will they teach that man’s will has some liberty to choose civil righteousness, and to work things subject to reason. But […]
Salvation and the Role of Atonement in Grace Humanistic Christianity, in rejecting the complete spiritual brokenness of the human race, the holiness of God, and the wrath of God against […]
God in his mercy hides from us the darkness and pervasiveness of our sinfulness. Our sinful nature is intertwined with our Imago Dei (image of God). Envision two plants growing […]
“[Some people think] …they are so good, that they scorn God’s offer of mercy. Indeed these are often in the worst condition: these are they who think they need no […]
“Man is a free agent but be cannot originate the love of God in his heart. His will is free in the sense that it is not controlled by any […]
November 17, 1775. “But this brings me to your second query. II. Do I think that God, in the ordinary course of his providence, grants this assistance in an irresistible […]
November 17, 1775. My dear friend, My present part is but to repeat what I have elsewhere expressed, only with some variety and enlargement. You yourself well state the situation […]
August 11, 1775. “My dear friend, Your objections neither displease nor weary me. While truth is the object of your inquiry–the more freedom you use with me the better. Nor […]
“I frankly confess that, for myself, even if it could be, I should not want ‘free-will’ to be given me, nor anything to be left in my own hands to […]
“For more than fifteen hundred years the Church has engaged in a heated debate over the freedom of man’s will. The major issues came to general attention in the early […]