Section 9 Free Will

Background in Brief Overview

1 and 2 are a Commentary on God and how he created Man

3 The current State of man

4 What God does to the man, the freedom attaned, the remaining corruptions

5 the Future of man

9.1 A General Statement about Man’s Will

Observations: God created Free Will. It has natural liberties.

Yout truly make your descions, so you are truly responsible for them (Application: You are not made to do things be birth, nature of how you were raised etc, you bare the guilt of your actions)

Your nature isn’t locked to only Good or evil.

(Have the verses Read by the crowd)

9.2 Man in Innocency: A Mutable Being

We were free to do good and free to choose to do good.

The issue is that this condition was unstable, the non-modernized version uses Mutable, changeable. Man, like the garden he lived in was able to change and grow, and so he was able to make choices. including the choice to sin.

Man is unstable or mutable. God the creator is unchanging.

9.3 Man After the Fall: Total Inability

The 2nd darkest moment in the history of mankind.

Good is defined as Spiritual good - meaning you cannot please God with your actions. This is the standard view of Reformed Christianity, the biblical view.

Because of this you cannot choose to