Free Will
Most of my Christian brothers or sisters (especially on fb) would consider themselves reformed or Calvinistic in their theology. I gather this much from comments made and because most of mainstream Christianity is. Before I begin I want to make something clear. I love all my reformed brothers and sisters and my object here is not to demean you or your intelligence. Truly some of the people that love Jesus the most, happen to be reformed. Many of the best preachers of the gospel are Calvinists. I do understand that. My purpose here is not to cause division but to try to get people to see the truth instead of believing what has been handed down to us from men. I don't expect anyone to believe what I write but to search the scriptures for themselves.
Why is this an important topic? Reformed theology or Calvinism claims that man's will is in bondage therefore are unable to chose to do right. The sinners will is not free and cannot chose to repent and believe unless God decreed it from eternity past. (God decrees some to hell and some to heaven)
Now I'll tell you what this kind of doctrine does. It takes the blame off the sinner. No longer does the guilty sinner feel personally responsible for sin. If the sinner does not have a free will, then his sin is not his fault. After all, it is according to the nature that he has been given reformers say. Basically the lost our told (if they have been to church once) that they have a sinful nature and they can do no other than sin, and it's not really their fault. They are told that God is a sovereign God and if he didn't decree you to be in the elect, that you are damned and there is nothing you can do about it. I personally don't think anyone really believes this. I don't think any reformer looks on a murderer and doesn't feel that the person is personally to blame for the killing of the innocent. I don't think when a man rapes a Calvinist's wife, that that Calvinist doesn't think that the rapist personally deserves the fires of hell. I don't think anyone that holds to this doctrine, looks on a sodomite and doesn't think he should and could turn from his sin, repent to God and believe the gospel if he so desired. So in fact, many that hold to this doctrine do not believe it themselves and their actions betray them. So what is my issue then?
I recently posted a status that told the truth to the lost, that people who don't believe on Jesus are already condemned because they won't come to the light because their deeds were evil. Someone commented and the message they were sending utterly took the guilt and blameworthiness off of the sinner and blamed Adam and Eve for our sin. That is exactly what this bondage of the will doctrine does. If a sinner does not come to the place where he sees the mass of his own personal sin and is personally convicted, he will never see his need for Jesus. Where the sinner does not come to the place where he sees how disgustingly sinful he or she is in the light of a holy God, he or she will never come to Christ. No person will come to Christ who blames his sin on someone that lived over 6000 yrs ago. The truth is, every time I or anybody sinned, we knew we shouldn't but we did it anyway. We are to blame and no one else. It is my fault that I deserve eternity in the lake of fire. I should have had my blood shed for my sin. I deserved it. It is my fault that Christ died, because he died for my sin! All my life I knew to do right and did not. When faced with the truth that I ought to do the right thing, I despicably chose to ignore it and do the evil. I knew the truth of God and his judgment, and I turned the other way and walked after the darkness. I was to blame. It was my fault. At no time was my will hindered. No where in the bible was anybody's will hindered. Right from Adam to the apostle Paul, none ever blamed their sin on someone else or on a sinful nature that was passed to them.
In conclusion, if our will was in bondage why would we feel guilty when we sin? If our nature was to sin, then how could it be deemed sin and why would we feel bad about it? Wouldn't sin be acting against our nature? How could God blame us for sin if we were born like this? Why would God want a bunch of robots with predetermined actions? If man has no free will, then what kind of freak show is this? We have a whole race of people that aren't free who are born with a nature to sin, who are commanded by God to repent and believe when they don't have the capability? What kind of god is that? What kind of god decrees some to be saved and the rest to be damned when he could over power them all with His irresistible grace and save them all? This is messed up folks. Search the scriptures and find the truth.
Why is this an important topic? Reformed theology or Calvinism claims that man's will is in bondage therefore are unable to chose to do right. The sinners will is not free and cannot chose to repent and believe unless God decreed it from eternity past. (God decrees some to hell and some to heaven)
Now I'll tell you what this kind of doctrine does. It takes the blame off the sinner. No longer does the guilty sinner feel personally responsible for sin. If the sinner does not have a free will, then his sin is not his fault. After all, it is according to the nature that he has been given reformers say. Basically the lost our told (if they have been to church once) that they have a sinful nature and they can do no other than sin, and it's not really their fault. They are told that God is a sovereign God and if he didn't decree you to be in the elect, that you are damned and there is nothing you can do about it. I personally don't think anyone really believes this. I don't think any reformer looks on a murderer and doesn't feel that the person is personally to blame for the killing of the innocent. I don't think when a man rapes a Calvinist's wife, that that Calvinist doesn't think that the rapist personally deserves the fires of hell. I don't think anyone that holds to this doctrine, looks on a sodomite and doesn't think he should and could turn from his sin, repent to God and believe the gospel if he so desired. So in fact, many that hold to this doctrine do not believe it themselves and their actions betray them. So what is my issue then?
I recently posted a status that told the truth to the lost, that people who don't believe on Jesus are already condemned because they won't come to the light because their deeds were evil. Someone commented and the message they were sending utterly took the guilt and blameworthiness off of the sinner and blamed Adam and Eve for our sin. That is exactly what this bondage of the will doctrine does. If a sinner does not come to the place where he sees the mass of his own personal sin and is personally convicted, he will never see his need for Jesus. Where the sinner does not come to the place where he sees how disgustingly sinful he or she is in the light of a holy God, he or she will never come to Christ. No person will come to Christ who blames his sin on someone that lived over 6000 yrs ago. The truth is, every time I or anybody sinned, we knew we shouldn't but we did it anyway. We are to blame and no one else. It is my fault that I deserve eternity in the lake of fire. I should have had my blood shed for my sin. I deserved it. It is my fault that Christ died, because he died for my sin! All my life I knew to do right and did not. When faced with the truth that I ought to do the right thing, I despicably chose to ignore it and do the evil. I knew the truth of God and his judgment, and I turned the other way and walked after the darkness. I was to blame. It was my fault. At no time was my will hindered. No where in the bible was anybody's will hindered. Right from Adam to the apostle Paul, none ever blamed their sin on someone else or on a sinful nature that was passed to them.
In conclusion, if our will was in bondage why would we feel guilty when we sin? If our nature was to sin, then how could it be deemed sin and why would we feel bad about it? Wouldn't sin be acting against our nature? How could God blame us for sin if we were born like this? Why would God want a bunch of robots with predetermined actions? If man has no free will, then what kind of freak show is this? We have a whole race of people that aren't free who are born with a nature to sin, who are commanded by God to repent and believe when they don't have the capability? What kind of god is that? What kind of god decrees some to be saved and the rest to be damned when he could over power them all with His irresistible grace and save them all? This is messed up folks. Search the scriptures and find the truth.
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