Afrikitty Answers RefutingCalvinism on "Free Will" - A Calvinist Answers!

"Free Will is a downright Lie!" - Martin Luther "On the Bondage of the Will"

FREE WILL TENETS NOT FOUND IN SCRIPTURE
If there is one belief which has skyrocketed to fame in the church, it is the belief that a person can exercise free will to become saved. This belief puts man in charge of his salvation and takes it away from God. It places God in an ancillary position to man in reference to salvation as we shall see in the tenets which I will present. We must realize first that free will does not exist in regards to salvation. That would mean that man is both objective and neutral in the area of salvation. The following two verses show us that man is neither:
(Rom 6:17 KJV) But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.
(Rom 6:18 KJV) Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.
As we see from these two verses that man is placed into two categories:
Servants of Sin - Unsaved
Servants of Righteousness - Saved
Man is not objective since the human race is living in sin and each one born is living in sin. (Psa 51:5 KJV) Behold, I was shapen in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me. As a matter of fact we are conceived in sin and even babies are sinners as shown by the following passages:
(Psa 58:3-5 KJV) The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies. {4} Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear; {5} Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
From the moment a person is born, they are born in sin which means it is absolutely impossible for a person to objectively sit down and weigh God's salvation program to determine whether they want to accept Him or not. Being born in sin creates another major problem for the human race, and that is we are born dead:
(Eph 2:1-5 KJV) And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins: {2} Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: {3} Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. {4} But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, {5} Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)
The word "dead" in both passages is the word "nekrous" (nekrous) which means lifeless or useless. Before you became a Christian, how filled with life were you and how useful were you to the Kingdom of God? Until God saves us and gives us eternal life, we are of no value to the Kingdom of God. Even if you donated to your church before you were saved, here is what God thinks of the gifts of the unbeliever:
(Prov 15:8 KJV) The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
(Prov 21:27 KJV) The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination: how much more, when he bringeth it with a wicked mind?
Please go to the following link to read the rest of this article: http://www.scionofzion.com/freewill.htm

To listen to Martin Luther's "The Bondage of the Will", please go to the following links on my MyChristEnduredForMe channel:
1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tI4mQoE6E7s
2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8GDtbmo8vs
3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0tRfds6FW0
4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncHgTAORzYA
5. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vu_SAu45U1I
6. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xrAHVLoWGY
7. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aC-f0h9lJ8I
8. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEEzGZJqfnQ
9. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmz-JNkobA0
10. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iayX3bylc1k
11. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mbXwi3k0JE
12. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObXeUKnYtKA
13. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qa8re-oxRmw
14. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryFjFecasTY
14. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBye8WRzX-k
15. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2INMHujjW0k
16. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Pi8KyCSyZI
17. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51-YJIItsX8

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[reformedman]

The Westminster Confession of Faith Chapter 9

[Afrikitty]

@reformedman Hi there, Thank you very much. I will post Ch 9 of the Westminster Confession of Faith, if possible, here in this comment section.

Thank you for your comment.

[fakebrake]

I do get so confused on this whole free will thing.

[Afrikitty]

@fakebrake Hi Jerry, Yes, we get confused, because we usually understand things by how we perceive them. However, the Bible says that our hearts are desperately wicked and deceitful, who can know it - Jeremiah 1:9. We are not to understand these things by how WE perceive them, we are to go to the Scriptures to find out what is truth.

I see this video has been thumbed down, DESPITE the Scriptures I used to make my point. This is the depravity of man in action - those who HATE God!

[Afrikitty]

@fakebrake Jerry, please read the information on the website I have provided in the description box. I have also uploaded videos on Martin Luther's "Bondage of the Will" on my MyChristEnduredForMe channel. The links are in the description box.

Don't allow yourself to REMAIN confused on this issue. The Bible exhorts us: "Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth." 2 Timothy 2:15

We are known by our DOCTRINE

[WCOFTheology]

@GodchoseMe1000 Hey brother, are you becoming a Calvinist?

[GodchoseMe1000]

John 15:16

You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit--fruit that will last. Then the Father will give you whatever you ask in my name.