Is there such a thing as free will?

[su_audio url=" [ommtop] [su_spoiler title="Click for transcription..." style="default" open="no"]Yes, but not perhaps in the way you imagine. The Bible supports the concept of man having a freedom of self-determination as long as we realize that the freedom is limited by the bias of his own will. The Fall of man in the garden of Eden had a profound effect upon man's will resulting in a natural state where as Jesus put it in John 3:19, men love darkness rather than light. By birth, man's will is bent towards loving darkness and inclined away from God. Man voluntarily chooses in accordance with the freedom of his will, to rebel against God. Thus, man is responsible for his actions. This is universal. Paul says in Romans 3:11, "there is none that seeketh after God." Thus, man's only hope is to be regenerated by the Spirit of God, at which point he who is dead becomes spiritually alive. A dead man can do nothing but stink, and until God gives life, man's will opposes truth and he stinks before God. Jonah declared, "Salvation is of the Lord" and until God saves a man, that man's will is free only to do what his sinful nature desires.[/su_spoiler]

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Is there such a thing as free will? is an episode from One Minute Ministry | A Biblical Worldview Daily Devotional | Christian Questions on the Bible, Theology, and Apologetics by Armen Thomassian.

This episode is 01:30 long.

This episode was published on Apr 25, 2016.

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