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Human Freedom, Divine Knowledge, and Mere Molinism: A Biblical, Historical, Theological, and Philosophical Analysis is unavailable, but you can change that!

Does humanity possess the freedom to think and act, or are we always caused and determined to think and act--exactly how we think and act--by things outside of our control? If we are always causally determined to think and act by things outside of our control, then how can humans be genuinely responsible for any of our thoughts or following actions? However, if humanity is genuinely free and...

evil choices. Luther, however, argued otherwise: humanity does not possess free will (at least in soteriological matters) and, as a result, humanity is completely dependent on God to free them from the bondage of their fallenness and their bondage to Satan.7 John Calvin’s comment, though similar to Luther’s, is more well-known and quoted: “But those who, while they profess to be the disciples of Christ, still seek for free-will in man, notwithstanding of his being lost and drowned in spiritual destruction,