guilty before God. In that case, even infants would be sinful, guilty, and in need of Christ’s redemption.9 What, then, about free will? In the early church, believers had various views on the subject. Most in the first few centuries strongly resisted a Greek philosophical or Gnostic fatalistic view of the human will that negated responsibility, rendering our choices a matter of fate or fortune. To avoid the obvious error of relieving humans of all responsibility for their actions, Christians tended