as removing the basic indifference of the will toward sin, with the result that all choices of the will become sinful and the free choice of the good is no longer a possibility. Arbitrium has been enslaved to sin and can now be called, as Luther termed it, the servum arbitrium, or bound choice. The Reformed similarly maintain the freedom of the faculty of will and the liberum arbitrium apart from the disposition of fallen human beings to sin. Since, moreover, the choice of sin is not the result of
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