Many evangelicals advocate what we might call libertarian free will. This is the idea that we truly make significant choices—that our choices are self-standing. They’re not determined by anything: I choose A, and not B, and it’s my choice that makes the difference. Nothing controls what that is. I sometime use the illustration of walking into an ice cream shop. You go into a Baskin-Robins, for example, and there’s a whole array of ice cream flavors. I can choose any flavor I want. When I walk through