aiki
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Free will is a fiction not because of God's election or predestination. Free will is a fiction because fallen, sinful man hates God and is unable to freely choose him unless God changes his heart.
The Calvinist boogeyman of Pelagius notwithstanding, I know of no place in Scripture that declares that, because fallen man is unable to change himself, he, therefore, cannot recognize this fact when God's truth reveals it to him and in humility choose to submit himself to God's saving work and spiritual transformation. It is a Calvinist assumption that "dead in trespasses and sins" means "incapable even of recognizing one is spiritually dead and in need of quickening when revealed by God's truth."
The ordo salutis of the Calvinist that requires regeneration prior to salvation makes a very strange (and, I think, unbiblical) situation where in order to recognize one must be saved, one must already be saved.
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