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The Need for Grace Does Away with Free Will Altogether (eBook)




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Description: "Free will I have often heard of, but I have never seen it. I have always met with will, and plenty of it, but it has either been led captive by sin or held in the blessed bonds of grace."
- C. H. Spurgeon

Many of you would, no doubt, agree that there is a great need to recover the gospel in our age. In order to begin moving out of the present state of chaos in the church, we need to subvert many of the false narratives borrowed from the world that have taken hold of us. The intent of this book is both to dismantle one of these core inconsistent narratives in light of Holy Scripture and then replace it with a consistent and biblical one. I will propose that one of the most dominant reasons for the current downgrade in the Church is the presuppositional lens through which Scripture is read called “libertarian freedom”. To begin to understand the full extent of the crisis we must begin here. As we define and then closely explore the problems with libertarian free will we will not only expose its outright errors but perhaps even more importantly, its inconsistencies which may have previously gone unnoticed by some. This will help us all think more clearly and replace the unbiblical with the biblical. This error is a old as the fall.

The earliest notable dispute on this issue was between Augustine and Pelagius. It had to do with the extent to which the natural man is responsible for his or her own regeneration (the new birth), i.e. whether the work of God in regeneration monergistic (God alone) or synergistic (a cooperation of man and God). The Council of Orange (529 A. D.) condemned the Semi-Pelagian doctrine that fallen creatures, although sinful, have an island of righteousness which made them morally competent enough to contribute toward their salvation by taking hold of the offer of the grace of God through an act of their unregenerate natural will. Orange upheld Augustine's view that the will is evil by corruption of nature and becomes good only by a correction of grace. This eBook is a collection of classic writings through the history of the church on this issue. So without further ado, let’s define the issues.

Table of Contents

Part I: The Will and Affections are in Bondage to Sin

A Treatise on Grace and Free Will by St. Augustine
Grace Creates a Truly Free Will by St. Augustine
Short Excerpt From Packer's Intro to Luther's Bondage of the Will by J. I. Packer
Key Quotes from "The Bondage of the Will" by Martin Luther
Bondage of the Will by Martin Luther (Book)
Man Now Deprived of Freedom of the Will, and Miserably Enslaved by John Calvin
Freedom of the Will by Jonathan Edwards (Book)
Augustine & The Pelagian Controversy by B. B. Warfield
Pelagianism, Semi-Pelagianism & Augustinianism by A. A. Hodge
Law and Grace by John Murray
Free Will and Merit Fairly Examined by Augustus Toplady
Man's Free Will or Impotency and the Punishment Due Upon Sin by Wilhelmus à Brakel
Free Will - A Slave by C. H. Spurgeon
Human Inability by C. H. Spurgeon
God's Will and Man's Will by C. H. Spurgeon
Adam's Fall and Free-Will by R. L. Dabney
God Sovereign and Man Free: or the Doctrine of Divine Foreordination and Man's Free Agency, Stated, Illustrated, and Proved from the Scriptures by N.L. Rice, D.D. (book)
Arminianism Restrictive of Divine Free Agency by Rev. Samuel J. Cassells
Free Will by A. A. Hodge
Arminianism: The Golden Idol of Free Will by Augustus Toplady
The Arminian Theory of Redemption by R. L Dabney
The Theology of the Reformation by B. B. Warfield
The Doctrine of Man's Impotence by A. W. Pink (book)

Part II: God's Sovereignty and Free Will

God's Sovereignty and the Human Will by A.W. Pink
God's Foreknowledge and Free Will by Stephen Charnock
Is Predestination Inconsistent With the Free Agency And Moral Responsibility of Man? by Loraine Boettner
The Potter and the Clay by George Whitefield
God's Sovereignty and Human Responsibility by John Murray
God's Will and Man's Will by Horatius Bonar
Grace Does Not Destroy Free Agency by R. L. Dabney
Of The Freedom of the Will of Man by John Gill
How Can God be Sovereign and Man Still be Free? by John Hendryx

Appendices

Arguments in Support of Free Will Refuted by John Calvin
Eleven (11) Reasons to Reject Libertarian Free Will by John Hendryx
Does Forseen Faith Allow for Libertarian Free Will? by John Hendryx
Bible Logic Fallacies of Synergism & Libertarian Free Will Theism by John Hendryx & Roger Smalling
Does God Have A Libertarian Free Will? by John Hendryx
The Gospel: Offer or Command? by John Hendryx
Free Will in Philemon 1:14 by John Hendryx
Question on The State of Man's Will Before the Fall by John Hendryx
Free Will, Election & Foreknowledge
If Divine Election is True, and Man has No Free Will, Then What Need is There to Preach the Gospel? by John Hendryx
Conversation with a Synergist on Free Will by John Hendryx
Responsibility, Inability and Grace (Chart) by John Hendryx
Is the Will Free by Nature or by Grace? by John Hendryx
Does the Title"The Need for Grace Does Away With Free Will Altogether" Overstate the Case? by John Hendryx

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[cygnusx1]

I just paid for and downloaded this book on Kindle for PC , it's a cracking read

 

[JustAsIam77]

I've been enamored by Hebrews recently which coincides with your post, the need fror grace doing away with free will altogether..

There are only three verses that I'll post in chapter 4 relating to Christs's sympathy for His followers.

14 Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.

15 For we have not a high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.

16 Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.