Qoheleth said:
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While Calvinism states that as we submit to the sovereign, preexistent, eternal, and immutable (predestined) will of God, that all history, all the events of history, all the things that come to pass have been decreed and fixed in advance (including individual salvation) and are written by God.
In reality this is the very reverse of what we are told about the biblical God, who opens up freedom for us, who lets us make our own history, who goes with us on the more or less unheard-of troubled adventures that we concoct.
This is not a God of providence (which is never a biblical word). He is never a determinative cause or an irreducible conductor of events. The biblical God is he who unceasingly reestablishes our human liberty when we keep falling into bondage.
Does this sund like the type of free will you are advocating?
Jer 32:40 And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but
I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me.
Psa 65:4 Blessed [is the man whom]
thou choosest,
and causest to approach [unto thee, that] he may dwell in thy courts: we shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house, [even] of thy holy temple.
Jhn 8:34 Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin
is the servant of sin.
Pro 21:1
The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD ;
he directs it like a watercourse wherever he pleases.
Pro 16:9 A man's heart deviseth his way: but
the LORD directeth his steps.
Jhn 12:39 Therefore
they could not believe, because that Esaias said again,
Jhn 12:40
He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; that they should not see with [their] eyes, nor understand with [their] heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.
Rom 9:19 Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault?
For who hath resisted his will?
Psa 105:24 And he increased his people greatly; and made them stronger than their enemies.
Psa 105:25
He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal subtilly with his servants.
Rom 9:16
So then [it is] not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth,
but of God that sheweth mercy.
Rom 9:17 For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose
have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.
Rom 9:18 Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will [have mercy],
and whom he will he hardeneth.