Re: [asa] Neo-Darwinism and God's action

On Thu, 21 Feb 2008, David Opderbeck wrote:

> But what in blazes ... er, what in heaven's name ... is that suppposed to
> mean?
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>> Westminster Confession IX.V: The will of man is made perfectly and
>> immutably free to good alone, in the state of glory only.
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>> This is the type of freedom that the Confession sees as most desirable.
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>> Gordon Brown (ASA member)
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Chapter IX of the Westminster Confession is about free-will. It says that
man's will is free, that in the state of innocency he was free to will and
do good, but mutably, so that he might fall. Then in the fallen state he
lost all ability to will to any spiritual good accompanying salvation. The
converted sinner is freed to will good but can still will that which is
evil. Then in the state of glory man's will is perfectly and immutably
free to good alone.

Thus the Confession does not see freedom as necessarily being restricted
to cases where both good and evil might occur.

Gordon Brown (ASA member)

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Received on Thu Feb 21 22:30:25 2008