- Jun 28, 2018
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Not really, you must be saved before you can hear and respond to his words. The flesh cannot hear nor desire to respond to the true Christ, only idols.Funny, I was going to reply the other day (but had to go do stuff) about 'free will is only just the ability to make choices'.
But!...It came to mind:
"It's Christ we are being drawn to, because of Who He is, because of His Words."
So...it's kinda both (as we probably all already thought, everyone perhaps, to begin with) -- we are able to choose Christ because He is Christ, because we are drawn to Him.
In other words, there isn't' a difference between the 2 positions.
Put another way, any kind of will/choice is already God-given in the most key sense: these bodies and minds are His design, our abilities are the abilities He made, from Him, His.
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