This doctrine of total inability which declares that men are dead in sin does not mean that all men are equally bad, nor that any man is as bad as he could be, nor that anyone is entirely destitute of virtue, nor that human nature is equal in itself, nor that man’s spirit in inactive, and much less does it mean that the body is dead. What is does mean is that since the fall, man rests under the curse of sin, that he is actuated by wrong principles, and that he is wholly unable to love God, or to do anything meriting salvation. His corruption is extensive, but not necessarily intensive. It is in this sense that man, since the fall, is utterly indisposed, disabled, and made opposite to all good, wholly inclined to all evil. He possesses a fixed bias of the will against God, and instinctively and willingly and turns to evil. He is an alien by birth, and a sinner by choice. The inability under which he labors is not an inability to exercise volition, but an inability to be willing to exercise holy volitions. And it is this phase of it which led Luther to declare that ‘free will’ is an empty term, whose reality is lost; and a lost liberty, according to my grammar, is no liberty at all.
Loraine BoettnerTags: free-will religion doctrine reformed predestination loraine-boettner
This is one of the two great labyrinths into which human minds are drawn: the question of free will versus predestination.
Neal StephensonTags: free-will question labyrinth predestination
You believe in Destiny, don't you?"
"Yes," said Leah quietly.
"Then you have to believe that things happen for a reason, and even if you change something. Destiny will find a way to fulfill her needs." - Jasmine
Tags: destiny predestination predetermination
It is the Godfather, not God the Father, who makes you an offer you can’t refuse.
Peter KreeftTags: free-will christianity salvation calvinism predestination soteriology
God wanted us to do something, and we went the bad way. Then he said "No!, I am not going to lose what I want done!, So I'm gonna save this people and restore their dreams back to them"!
Israelmore AyivorTags: life god dreams living sin salvation jesus bad save food-for-thought jesus-christ christ don-t-give-up something predestination garden-of-eden restoration destined never-give-up revival restore revive don-t-quit israelmore-ayivor predestined back-to-life bad-way dentiny live-again revive-us-again
Pandora's Box could not be unopened, no one could return to Eden.
Selena KittTags: fear disillusionment lost fate religion paradise doom destiny erotic greek-mythology regret regrets eden fates erotica predestination omen doomed cursed meant-to-be selena-kitt
It takes your knowing to decide on your going. If you know where you are going, you will keep going because you have already seen yourself gone
Israelmore AyivorTags: motivational inspirational success yourself destiny decision knowing go destination don-t-give-up successful know going predestination extra gone knows keep-going high never-give-up decide extra-mile go-ahead predestined successful-journey went
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