the act can be necessitated, while in the case of an act of free choice it cannot. Free choice is intact, but it does not function. Sinners still presume that their object is a good object, but it isn’t. Gomarus adduces a host of quotations from Scripture as evidence for his case. Another point must be mentioned with regard to thesis XXI. Gomarus is very clear about the inability of a human being to free himself from being a sinner. There is an asymmetry here: while man can choose to become a sinner,