Free Will?
"If regeneration were a reward for a previous act of
faith by our ... free will, God could not know ahead of time whom He could save.
The Arminians say God could look ahead and see who would freely accept Christ.
But if this 'looking ahead' were accurate and unchangeable, the man's will would
not be free. Some factor in the dim, distant past would have had to determine
the will so that it could not change. If it was not God who determined the act
of faith, then there must be some power beyond God's control that did so, for a
completely free will is not subject to accurate prediction."
-- Gordon Clark
GOD hath from the beginning CHOSEN you to
salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:
whereunto He called you by our Gospel...
-- The Apostle Paul writing under infallible inspiration of the
Holy Spirit as recorded in Second Thessalonians 2:13 (b).
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