BanjoPicker
Senior Member
MAN IS A FREE MORAL AGENT
If man is not a free moral agent, THEN GOD CAN BE HELD ENTIRELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL SIN, REBELLION, SICKNESS, AND ALL THE EFFECTS OF SIN AS WELL AS FOR THE DA-MNATION OF MEN AND ANGELS, as unconditional security men teach.
One of these teachers says, " No man is an absolutely free moral agent, for he is either led away by the devil against his will or he is a servant of Christ. I do not simply choose to keep myself in a place where I am secure. God has chosen me, and I am secure in His choice."
Another says, "Ownership means lordship. That which is owned has no right of will contrary to the will of the owner. . . . Adam was the only true free moral agent. When he sinned, he lost free moral agency. No man ever wills to be born in the human race, and equally impotent is he to will to separate himself from the human race. . . . Yet it is argued that man can be separate himself from God. . . . It was not his own will to be born again, but the will of God (Jn. 1:13) . . . Man has little to do with that as he had to do with the physical birth.
As it is impossible for man to separate himself from the human race, so it is equally impossible for him, by free act, to separate himself from God's kingdom. There is no such thing as free moral agency in the kingdom of God. . . . To say that a man can will to go away from God and be lost is to make the sovereign grace of God subject to the will of man.
These statements simply mean that MAN HAS NO POWER TO CHOOSE TO SERVE GOD AND CONSEQUENTLY NO RESPONSIBILITY IN ANY SENSE IN SERVING GOD OR SATAN OR IN BEING SAVED OR LOST, that it is up to God to choose each one or not, that those God sees fit to choose are secure by His own choice and not by man having anything to do with it, that God is a respecter of persons in not choosing some and in not making all men secure and in saving all men alike, that God is responsible for the sins and ****ation of the lost as well as for the security of the few pets some say He delights in choosing, that some men can never be saved due to the fact God has not chosen them to be saved and to as secure as the others, and that God is responsible for all the sins and sufferings and curses of the universe.
If Adam was responsible for his fall from grace or favor with God, if he chose to fall from his former state, if grace and divine nature did not keep him saved and holy, AND IF GOD LEFT IT UP TO THE FREE WILL OF MAN IN THE BEGINNING, THEN IT IS THE SAME WITH ALL MEN TODAY. There is no passage, and no one has ever given one, that proves that man is not a free moral agent all the days of his life, whether he is saved or unsaved.
If man is not a free moral agent, THEN GOD CAN BE HELD ENTIRELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL SIN, REBELLION, SICKNESS, AND ALL THE EFFECTS OF SIN AS WELL AS FOR THE DA-MNATION OF MEN AND ANGELS, as unconditional security men teach.
One of these teachers says, " No man is an absolutely free moral agent, for he is either led away by the devil against his will or he is a servant of Christ. I do not simply choose to keep myself in a place where I am secure. God has chosen me, and I am secure in His choice."
Another says, "Ownership means lordship. That which is owned has no right of will contrary to the will of the owner. . . . Adam was the only true free moral agent. When he sinned, he lost free moral agency. No man ever wills to be born in the human race, and equally impotent is he to will to separate himself from the human race. . . . Yet it is argued that man can be separate himself from God. . . . It was not his own will to be born again, but the will of God (Jn. 1:13) . . . Man has little to do with that as he had to do with the physical birth.
As it is impossible for man to separate himself from the human race, so it is equally impossible for him, by free act, to separate himself from God's kingdom. There is no such thing as free moral agency in the kingdom of God. . . . To say that a man can will to go away from God and be lost is to make the sovereign grace of God subject to the will of man.
These statements simply mean that MAN HAS NO POWER TO CHOOSE TO SERVE GOD AND CONSEQUENTLY NO RESPONSIBILITY IN ANY SENSE IN SERVING GOD OR SATAN OR IN BEING SAVED OR LOST, that it is up to God to choose each one or not, that those God sees fit to choose are secure by His own choice and not by man having anything to do with it, that God is a respecter of persons in not choosing some and in not making all men secure and in saving all men alike, that God is responsible for the sins and ****ation of the lost as well as for the security of the few pets some say He delights in choosing, that some men can never be saved due to the fact God has not chosen them to be saved and to as secure as the others, and that God is responsible for all the sins and sufferings and curses of the universe.
If Adam was responsible for his fall from grace or favor with God, if he chose to fall from his former state, if grace and divine nature did not keep him saved and holy, AND IF GOD LEFT IT UP TO THE FREE WILL OF MAN IN THE BEGINNING, THEN IT IS THE SAME WITH ALL MEN TODAY. There is no passage, and no one has ever given one, that proves that man is not a free moral agent all the days of his life, whether he is saved or unsaved.
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