Questions to the Calvinist on the 
issue about Man's Freewill
By Edwin Jardinel
(Written 1994)
Dear Bro. Jun,

 I was not able to respond immediately because I've been so busy.  Since I do not have much time to make lengthy letters, I decided to go directly to the discussions of your answers to my questions.  I am sending you follow-up questions.  I hope you'll be able to prove the correctness of your answers:

 1.   Why do you call Adam's will as freewill as stated in the Confessions of Faith, if in the strictest
       sense, according to your answer, Adam has no freewill? Who is right, you or the
        Confessions of Faith?
 
 2.   Since you've said that Adam has no freewill, whose will was it that Adam   fell into sin?
 
 3.   Did God desire the fall of Adam into sin?
 
 4.   In the #4 question of my recent letter, I asked, "...is it not possible also for a sinner to will to
       choose, believe in Christ, when he is under the influence of the Holy Spirit?" Your answer is.
       "Why not?" You mean, you already agree with me that a depraved spiritually dead sinner can
       will to choose to believe in Jesus when he is under the influence of the Holy Spirit?
 
 5.  Seemingly, you didn't answer my #4 question properly and you did not answer my fifth
      question.  Your answer to my #4 question is:"The Holy Spirit will enable the spirit-quickened
      sinner to repentance  and put his trust to the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation." Perhaps,
       you didn't get my point.  I am referring to unregenerated or lost sinner.  For clarification,
       I am asking again the same question: Is it not possible for a spiritually dead or lost
       sinner to will to choose and trust Jesus when the Holy Spirit invites or influences him?
 
 6.   Since you haven't answered my #4 and #5 questions, I will restate the fifth question for
       clarification: Since it is possible for a man without a depraved nature, as in the case of
        Adam. to will to sin  when  under Satan's influence, why do you think it is impossible
        for a child of the Devil with a depraved nature, to will to choose God when he is under
        the influence of the Holy Spirit? Remember that you have avoided my question by
        referring only to  the "Spirit-quickened sinner."
 
 7.   Since the regenerated people (whose wills are enslaved to God), can still commit sin
       sometimes when influenced by Satan, why can't  the unregenerated people whose
       wills are enslaved to the Devil, choose to trust Christ when under the influence of the
       Holy Spirit?
 
 8.   Do you mean that the Spirit's influence is limited only to the regenerated?  Can't the Spirit
       exercise influence also upon the unregenerated individuals? If the Devil can exercise influence
       upon the regenerated, Why can't God influence the unregenerated to  believe?
 
 9.    Your answer to my #7 question is: "God can influence a vile sinner to trust Him."
        What do you mean by a "vile sinner,"  regenerated or unregenerated? If you mean the
         regenerated, do you mean that the born-again persons are vile sinners? If you mean that
         the vile persons are unregenerated, so you now agree that God is influencing unregenerated
         persons to trust Jesus, that is before regeneration occurs.  The vile unregenerated sinner
         can repent and believe.
 
 10.   Since you believe that God is the efficient cause of Adam's disobedience, who
         master-minded or authored the sin of Adam, God or the Devil?
 
 11.  My #14 question is, "Do you believe that the Holy Spirit can make an influence in the decision
         or will of the unregenerated to repent and believe  before regenerating him?" Your answer is
         a positive YES.  Since your answer is yes, then you believe that the unregenerated or
         spiritually dead under the influence of the Spirit can repent and believe in Jesus before
         regeneration.  Praise God you are no longer a  true Calvinist.  You have changed your
         position and followed the right order of sequence :
         -- Spirit's call and conviction through hearing God's word,
             Repentance, Faith, then Regeneration.
 
 12.  In your answer to my #14 question, you already agreed that the Holy Spirit can make an
        influence in the decision and will of the unregenerated to repent and believe before
        regeneration, however, you are again changing your position and implying that a person
        can't have the will to believe in Christ before regeneration.  Do you mean that the
        Spirit cannot influence the will of the spiritually dead to believe in Christ before
         regeneration?
 
 13.   You did not answer my #16 question and you tried to reform my question in order for
         you to avoid answering it.  Your answer in #16 does not satisfy my question.  I'll restate
         my question so that it will be clear: When does the Spirit make the call to repentance and
         salvation, before regeneration or after?
 
 14.   Again you did not answer my no. 17 question and then you made an excuse by saying,
         "It is none of our business to determine the Holy Spirit in regeneration."  The reason why
          I am asking this question is because you're the first one who sent me a  material, touching
          the issue on intellect, emotion, and will by W.Best. Now you are unwilling to answer my
          question on that  matter. My no. 17 question is: Must the intellect of the unsaved
          person be regenerated first, then his emotions, afterward, his will in order for him to make a
          decision to repent  and believe? Or the intellect, emotion, and will be regenerated  at the
          same time?
 
 15.   Another way of avoiding my question is saying that it is irrelevant.  That's your answer
         in my #18 question.  You haven't really answered my question.  The reason I am
         asking this, you  have sent me a material dealing on  this matter -- intellect, emotion,
         and will by W. Best.  You have no answers to my nos. 18,19,20,21, and 22 questions.
 

          It's all for now.  God bless you!

         Bro. Edwin Jardinel