Do you remember in Scripture when the Canaanite woman made an extended parable (real world example) upon Jesus’ parable about how even the dogs can eat the crumbs? What this shows is that we can make parables or real world examples, too. For Jesus did not correct the woman and tell her only He can make parables (real world examples to compare with spiritual truth).
I say this because if we can be like the Canaanite woman and make a parable or real world example, then Calvinism does not stand a chance. For we know by real life examples that love is not something that is considered true love if it’s forced in some way. For example: If a man forces his love upon a woman and the woman does not want his love, and he tries to brain wash her to love him, it would not be real love or nature love of them both agreeing of their own choice to love each other.
Apples and oranges, my friend.
The woman made no parable. A parable has a beginning, a middle and an end. It's a
story.
Jesus stated a
law. She countered a
law with a
metaphoric expression, which was not an attempt to
alter the law Jesus stated, but to consider an
exception to it. Having all authority in heaven and earth (
Matthew 26:64,
28:18;
Luke 10:22;
John 13:3,
13), Jesus had the power to make an exception to the law. But Jesus' exception did not change the law, its principle or its meaning.
Jesus making an exception to the law in response to the Canaanite woman is not an example nor a precedent for using human experience or reasoning to judge the validity of what the Scriptures state and teach.
For we know by real life examples that love is not something that is considered true love if it’s forced in some way. For example: If a man forces his love upon a woman and the woman does not want his love, and he tries to brain wash her to love him, it would not be real love or nature love of them both agreeing of their own choice to love each other.
Where does Paul legislate, teach or imply that love is forced?
You misunderstand Paul.
"Free Will" means the power to be sinless.
Man does not have "Free Will," he has "limited free will," i.e.,
the ability to choose and do what he prefers without external force or constraint.
God working in one's disposition to give him to
prefer loving God means the man
freely and
willingly chooses what he
prefers without external force or contraint.
He is
exercising his free will in loving God, not
violating it.
