Folks,
One of the biggest problems in the church today is people, Christians, neither study, or read their bible anymore. People rely far to much on whatever is said from the pulpit.
A study done back in the early 2000's showed that only 6% of the people who call themselves "Christian" read their Bible, and that only 4% of those actually knew what it said.
This is entirely wrong.
I was one of those once.
The people of this world may be divided by race/skin color.
In the eyes of God, there were basically only two: Jews and Gentiles. White, black, red, yellow, brown, didn't matter. You were either a Jew or Gentile.
But...there is one thing all these have in common. We are all by birth, the seed of Adam.
To go back and look at "Free will/Free won't" you have to go back and look at two people.
Adam and Christ.
Here is where it pays to study.
"In any treatise that proposes to deal with the human will, its nature and functions, respect should be had to the will in three different men, namely, unfallen Adam, the sinner, and the Lord Jesus Christ. In unfallen Adam the will was
free, free in
both directions, free toward good and free toward evil. Adam was created in a state of
innocency but not in a state of holiness, as is so often assumed and asserted. Adam's will was therefore in a condition of moral equipoise: that is to say, in Adam there was no constraining
bias in him toward good or evil, and as such Adam differed radically from all his descendants, as well as from "the Man Christ Jesus." But with the sinner it is far otherwise. The sinner is born with a will that is
not in a condition of moral equipoise, because in him there is a heart that is "deceitful above all things and desperately wicked," and this gives him
a bias toward evil. So, too, with the Lord Jesus it was far otherwise: He also differed radically from unfallen Adam. The Lord Jesus Christ
could not sin because He was the "Holy One of God." Before He was born into this world it was said to Mary, "The Holy Spirit shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also
that Holy Thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God" (
Luke 1:35). Speaking reverently then we say, that the will of the Son of Man was
not in a condition of moral equipoise, that is, capable of turning toward either good or evil. The will of the Lord Jesus was
biased toward that which is good because, side by side with His sinless, holy, perfect humanity, was His eternal Deity. Now in contradistinction from the will of the Lord Jesus which was biased toward good, and Adam's will which, before his fall, was in a condition of moral equipoise-capable of turning toward either good or evil-the
sinner's will is
biased toward evil, and therefore is free in one direction only, namely, in the direction of evil. The sinner's will is
enslaved because it is
in bondage to and is the servant of a depraved heart."
Arthur W. Pink, The Sovereignty of God, Chapter 7, God's Sovereignty and Human Will, The Bondage of the Human Will
Source
Read through the scriptures. The Old Testament of full of Saints, like Moses who sinned.
Read the New Testament. The Apostles were not sinless either.
As long as we live in this body of flesh, though we may try as hard as we can to follow Jesus and do what the scriptures say, we will fail. We are not perfect...yet!
Although the salvation event freed us from the bondage to sin, we still struggle with it every second, of every minute, of every hour, of every day, of every month, of every year.
We are going to fail, and we are going to fall. That is why I'm thankful for the clause in 1 Jn. 1:8-10.
Both the will to do good and the will to do evil are still part of us. So says Paul.
God Bless
Till all are one.
