Hostile Free Willers
By
Dr. Ken Matto
Amos
5:10 (KJV) They hate him that
rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.
In
Amos 5:10, we read about an indictment of the wicked judges.
They hated the prophet of the Lord especially Amos for the simple reason
of him bringing the truth to the people.
The word “rebuketh” in the Hebrew carries with it the meaning of
“convince, rebuke, or reprove” and the word “uprightly” in the Hebrew carries
with it the meaning of “without blemish, truth, or integrity.”
In other words, Amos was bringing to light the real condition of the
judges of his time and how they hated to be reproved with the truth.
The Apostle Paul faced the same situation when he asked the people the
following question:
Galatians 4:16 (KJV) Am I
therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?
The
Apostle Paul was engaged in a battle between the Judaizers who tried to get the
people to believe that one must be circumcised plus keep the Law of Moses to
become saved. Then Pontius Pilate
asked a most pertinent question concerning truth which is still apropos for
today.
John
18:38 (KJV) Pilate saith unto
him, What is truth? And when he had said this, he went out again unto the Jews,
and saith unto them, I find in him no fault at all.
Pilate’s question is very relevant to today’s mindset especially in the body of
Christ which is being tossed around with every wind of doctrine, even to the
point that many argue against truth and defend the false.
Ephesians 4:14 (KJV) That we
henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every
wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they
lie in wait to deceive;
It
seems every time someone writes a new prophecy book or suggests another person
for the office of Antichrist, the church runs after them and adopts that belief
until the next candidate comes along or a new prophecy book is written.
In this article I want to approach the subject of Free Will and how its
proponents actually hate those of us in the Reformed community who adhere to the
doctrines of Free Grace. Calvinist
is not a proper term because in this article you will not find one quote by
Calvin but will find only Scripture and I will use the term "Calvinist" sparingly.
Recently there has been a resurgence of interest in the doctrines of Grace as
many people are looking at the subject of salvation.
With this rise in interest of the Doctrines of Grace, Satan has begun a
war against that belief by his army of free willers in the church who have begun
to act like attack dogs and attack every Calvinist as heretics and church
dividers. (I use the term free
willers not as a derogatory term but a term of identification.) There has been a
serious rise in bitter attacks against Calvinists painting them as heretics and
unbelievers. Those of us who adhere
to the doctrines of Grace realize that according to the Scriptures, salvation is
all in the hands of God without any addition by men.
Free Willers believe that Christ’s sacrifice was not complete until they
complete it by “accepting it.”
John
19:30 (KJV) When Jesus
therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his
head, and gave up the ghost.
Jesus
stated in John 19:30 that it is finished.
This meant that this portion of the salvation plan of God was complete,
it would be completed totally upon His resurrection.
However, the free willer does not believe that.
Their belief is it is finished as soon as I “accept the Lord.”
Free Willers believe in partial atonement in that it is not completed
unless they do the work of accepting it.
What it really means is that the free willer has to add a work to the
finished work of Christ. This is
why free will is so closely aligned with Roman Catholicism because they too add
works to the finished work of Christ.
Having to accept the Lord is no less a work than doing penance or saying
5 Hail Marys.
When
Christ stated that it was finished, it was the completion of the salvation of
all those who were named before the foundation of the world.
Ephesians 1:4 (KJV)
According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world,
that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
The penalty had been paid and now from that time to the last day, those
who are predestined to be saved will become saved according to God’s timing.
John
6:37 (KJV) All that the
Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise
cast out.
Notice in John 6:37 that Jesus Himself states that all those the Father gives
Him “shall” come to Him. The Father
gives, the Lord Jesus receives the believer.
Nothing about given a choice or anything about exercising free will.
The Free Willers totally misunderstand what type of free will they have.
It is true God has given us a free will concerning the things of this
earth. We may buy the type of car
we like, we may live in a city we like, we can wear one blue sock and one brown
one if we choose, or we can even attend any church we like.
That is the extent of the freedom of the unbeliever.
Where the free willer makes their huge mistake is that because we have
free will for earthly things, they take that to mean that we can extend that
free will into the spiritual realm.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
A free willer cannot will the common cold out of their body, how are they
going to will themselves into Heaven?
The great mistake they make is they neglect the biblical teaching that
every human being is born in sin and that sin causes us to be spiritually dead.
Nekrous - Lifeless, Useless, or Dead
Ephesians 5:14-15 (KJV)
Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead,
and Christ shall give thee light.
{15} See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,
Matthew 8:22 (KJV) But Jesus
said unto him, Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead.
Luke 15:32 (KJV) It was meet
that we should make merry, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead,
and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.
John 5:21 (KJV) For as the
Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son
quickeneth whom he will.
Colossians 2:13 (KJV) And
you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh,
hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;
Thnesko - Be Dead or Die
1 Timothy 5:6 (KJV) But she
that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth.
Thanatos - Death
1 John 3:14 (KJV) We know
that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the
brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.
Here we have just looked at seven verses where God uses three different words to
describe the condition of those who are not saved.
The Bible teaches us here that the only condition that the unbeliever is
in is a state of spiritual death.
This applies to every person who has ever lived and goes back as far as the
Garden of Eden. So here we have
biblical proof that a person is spiritually dead and dead means dead.
There is no getting around it.
Genesis 2:17 (KJV) But of the
tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day
that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
God Himself pronounced death to Adam and Eve if they disobeyed Him in the
Garden of Eden. Once they sinned,
not only was physical death decreed it was also spiritual death.
To deny this is to actually deny and reject the words of God Himself.
Free willers are notorious at rejecting Scripture they do not like as we
will see further down.
Free willers totally neglect this biblical truth and as a result they
teach that a person can save themselves by just believing.
Well how does a dead person believe when they are dead?
When Lazarus was in the tomb, did he raise himself from the dead?
The answer is no, Jesus stood at the entrance of his tomb and commanded
him by name to come forth.
John 11:43 (KJV) And when he thus had
spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth.
The fact that He commanded him by name to come forth is an important
fact.
John
10:3 (KJV) To him the porter
openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and
leadeth them out.
Notice the verse is stating that the Shepherd “calls his own sheep by name.”
Those He calls by name are the very ones that shall come to Him as we
read in John 6:37. In John 10:3, He
calls his sheep by name and leads them out.
There is no act of the will.
They hear their name and they follow His calling.
Just as the believer today is called by name into salvation and is led
out of the world system. The
scenario in John 10 is about the relationship between the Lord Jesus Christ and
the eternal church. For a person to be
saved means that a resurrection has taken place first before one can believe.
Since a person is spiritually dead, for them to have the ability to
believe and have faith unto salvation, they would literally have to resurrect
themselves from the dead. The
question remains, does any human being have the ability to raise themselves from
the dead, whether physical or spiritual?
The answer is no. The only
qualified ones we know about who have the ability to raise the physical dead is
God the Father and God the Son.
Since the human cannot reach into the spiritual realm, the only qualified ones
who are able to raise someone spiritually are God the Father and God the Son.
Resurrection of the soul must take place before a person can believe and
have faith unto salvation. Once a
person is regenerated they now have the ability to believe simply because they
now have the Holy Spirit indwelling them and they are no longer spiritually
dead.
Galatians 5:22 (KJV) But the
fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness,
faith,
According to Galatians 5:22, faith is a fruit of the Holy Spirit but if you do
not have the Holy Spirit living in you, then you are dead but if He indwells
you, you are able to have faith and believe.
So we conclude biblically that one must be regenerated first and only
then can that person believe. So
the order is salvation first and belief second!
This means that it is God doing the saving.
No matter how many sinner’s prayers a person prays, if they are not
regenerated first, they will remain unsaved.
Here
is a quotation from a free will preacher named Warren Wiersbe.
“The fundamental problem lost sinners face isn’t that they’re sick and
need a remedy. The problem is that
they’re dead in trespasses and sins and need to experience resurrection.”
(from The Voice, April 2017 Newsletter of the Bible Broadcasting Network)
How
many testimonies have we heard from people where they claimed that they accepted
Jesus when they were young but walked away from Him?
The fact was that they said a few words and were pronounced saved by the
“I want another jewel in my crown” preacher but they remained unsaved.
Therein lies a great danger of the free will movement in that people
think that by saying a few words they are automatically saved.
There will be many standing at the Great White Throne Judgment thinking
they were saved because they did something or said a few words and were lied to
by being told they were saved.
Now I
went through these biblical teachings to show that it is impossible for a person
to save themselves by means of a simple prayer or by some type of free will
which does not exist.
What
is the Condition of the Will of Man?
Romans 6:20-22 (KJV) For when
ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.
{21} What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed?
for the end of those things is death. {22}
But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye
have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.
To
further understand the condition of man, we must look at the will of man before
and after salvation. We find a
comparison in Romans 6:20 & 22. In
Romans 6:20, we find the phrase “servants of sin.”
The word “servant” is the Greek word “doulos” which can be understood as
slave. In any society that had
slavery, the slave had no will of their own.
Their will was to do the master’s will.
When a person is unsaved they are in the kingdom of Satan and Satan is
their master and the only will that the unsaved person has is the will that
serves Satan’s will. Martin Luther
understood this as the bondage of the will.
Verse 21 gives further understanding that the things which were done in
service to Satan’s will would cause shame to those who became saved and not only
that, but that life and its works would end in death.
This is speaking of spiritual death, eternal damnation.
Now
we move on to verse 22 and we find the same word “doulos” in reference to
service to God. When a person
becomes saved, they now become servants of God which produces fruit unto
holiness and the saved are given eternal life.
Jesus elevates the believer even higher.
John
15:15 (KJV) Henceforth I call
you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have
called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made
known unto you.
In
John 15:15, the words “servants and servant” are also the word “doulos” but here
Jesus changes the status of the believer from a servant to a friend.
In fact, it may be understood as a “dear friend.”
Now I
brought these verses in Romans up for a purpose.
We read that either a person is a slave of sin, which means, their will
is in bondage, or they are a servant of God which means they are saved.
There is no in between these classifications.
If a person is a slave they must be freed from that slavery but the slave
does not have the authority to free themselves.
It is their master who must free them from the bonds of slavery.
According to the Scriptures, Satan will not free his prisoners.
Isaiah 14:17 (KJV) That made
the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the
house of his prisoners?
Isaiah 14:17 teaches plainly that unbelievers are in the house or kingdom of
Satan and he will not let any of his prisoners go.
Therefore, they must be freed by an outside source.
The battle is not between the slave and master but the battle is between
master and master for the freedom of that slave.
John
6:44 (KJV) No man can come to
me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at
the last day.
Now
those who are in bondage to sin in Satan’s house but are named before the
foundation of the world for salvation must be brought out of the kingdom of
Satan and placed into the kingdom of God.
We read in John 6:44 that a person who is predestined for salvation is
drawn out of the kingdom of Satan.
The word “draw” means to “drag or force.”
It doesn’t sound like a free will choice.
The reason is that Satan will put up a fight to keep every one of his
captives and therefore the removing of the believer from the kingdom of Satan is
like one being dragged plus man loves his sin and will do anything to remain in
sin since it pleases the flesh.
John 3:19 (KJV) And this is the
condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather
than light, because their deeds were evil.
Since man loves darkness rather than light, they too will resist God from
coming to Him in salvation. This is
why God must do the saving since man cannot save himself because of the sinful
condition he is in and the kingdom he is in, there is no way out unless God does
the saving.
Colossians 1:12-13 (KJV)
Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the
inheritance of the saints in light:
{13} Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us
into the kingdom of his dear Son:
Colossians 1:13 gives us the reality of the situation that first of all it is
that it is the Father who delivered us from the power of darkness just as John 6:44
states. The word “delivered”
carries with it the meaning of “rescued.”
The word “translated” carries with it the meaning of “carry away or
remove.” Colossians 1:12 & 13 give
clear Scriptural evidence that salvation is all of God.
Remember, it is the Father who gives the believer to Jesus.
John 6:37 (KJV)
All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me
I will in no wise cast out. It
is the Father that rescues us from the prison house of Satan and removes or
translates us into the kingdom of His dear Son.
The flesh may not like it because it loves sin but the soul is happy to
receive that pardon.
Colossians 2:13-14 (KJV) And
you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he
quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;
{14} Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us,
which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;
God
the Father not only takes us out of the prison house of Satan but with that
release according to Colossians 2:13-14, all trespasses have been forgiven and
all laws that we broke were nailed to the cross.
It resulted in the indictment against us being blotted out.
The charges no longer exist, they are gone for eternity.
All of this was done by the hand of God as we read in the various verses.
Nothing, not even a smidgeon of man’s will is mentioned in that spiritual
battle. The battle for the souls of
the Elect takes place in the spiritual realm, not the physical realm.
The
summary is clear. Man has no
neutral ground, either a person is a slave to Satan or they are a servant of
God. There is no in between or any
neutral state of the soul whereby a person can make a choice.
What we discovered was that the choice was made for us.
Now I
wish to offer some reasons why the free willer hates the idea that they cannot
save themselves thus hating the person bringing this biblically based truth.
Free
Will Teaches that God is the Beggar and Man is the Sovereign
The
Bible Teaches that God is the Sovereign and Man is the Beggar
By
them placing salvation in their hands it makes God the Beggar like He is begging
them to accept Jesus and they stand there with the attitude of “I’ll think about
it.” What Calvinism does is it
places man as the beggar and God as the Sovereign and the pride of man will not
tolerate being second, even to God.
This is why they make God out to be the beggar because it puffs up their pride.
Colossians 1:12-13 (KJV)
Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of
the inheritance of the saints in light:
{13} Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath
translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son: God does not beg, He just
translates His Elect from the kingdom of Satan to the kingdom of Christ.
Free
Will Teaches Its Own Salvation Plan
The
Bible Teaches God’s Salvation Plan
When
the Lord Jesus Christ went to the cross, He died for the sins of His people and
came to save His people.
Matthew 1:21 (KJV) And she shall bring
forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people
from their sins. We already saw
in John 10 how Jesus calls His people by their names just as He did Lazarus.
If Jesus would have stood in front of the tomb of Lazarus and said “come
forth” then all the dead in the world would have come forth.
It is the same with salvation, if He would pronounce salvation, then
everyone in the world would be saved.
Instead, He calls those named from before the foundation of the world by
their name unto salvation.
Ephesians 1:4 (KJV)
According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world,
that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
Notice the verse uses the word “us and we” which denotes a specific group
of people. Free willers do not
believe that the sacrifice of Christ was for His own people but it was a random
death which means anybody and their brother can get saved.
It made people savable rather than saved which is not a biblical
teaching. God’s salvation plan was
all of grace for the believer but the free willer believes you have to accept it
for salvation making it a works gospel.
The gospel of grace applies salvation to those whom God has chosen
without the approval of the person receiving it.
Free
Will Teaches You Have a Choice
The
Bible Teaches a No-Choice Salvation
Free
willers would have you believe that your salvation is totally a choice that you
make out of your own free will. As
we have already seen, there is no such thing as a neutral position for a person
to go either way. The biblical plan
of salvation is simple. If you were
named from the foundation of the world to become saved, at some point in your
life God will apply His grace to you upon hearing the word of God.
Revelation 13:8 (KJV)
And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not
written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
Ephesians
1:4 (KJV) According as he
hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy
and without blame before him in love:
Free
Will Teaches You Have To Give God Permission to work in Your Life
The
Bible Teaches that God works in a Person’s Life without their Permission
Free
Will teaches a dangerous myth that you have the authority to actually give God
permission to work in your life.
This self-aggrandizing myth is nowhere taught in Scripture.
Jonah 1:17 (KJV)
Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was
in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
Did Jonah give God permission to work in his life?
If Jonah had free will and the authority to give God permission to
intervene in his life, would God have pursued Jonah or let him go his way?
If God gave us free will, then God would have appointed someone else to
go to Nineveh, but He didn’t! Jonah
was the chosen prophet to go to Nineveh!
Free willers forget who the Potter is and who is the clay!
Free
Will Rejects the Biblical Teaching that Man is Spiritually Dead
The
Bible Teaches Plainly that Man is Spiritually Dead
We
have already studied the subject that unsaved man is in a state of spiritual
death and is incapable of anything but being dead.
Free Willers totally ignore this truth and espouse the teaching that all
one has to do is just hear the word of God and then make their choice.
This teaching is as heretical as those who teach the Holy Spirit is only
a force.
Romans 10:17 (KJV)
So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
Romans 10:17 is used as the key verse for those who teach the “hearing
only doctrine.” However, the two
words in this verse must be looked at, they are the words “hearing and hearing.”
Both of these words are translated from the same Greek word and that is “akouw”
(pronounced ah-koo-oh) which means not just hearing physically but “hearing with
understanding.” For a person to
have faith, they must understand the words of the Scriptures to generate faith.
Luke 24:32 (KJV)
And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he
talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?
The two disciples on the road to Emmaus had talked with Jesus while they
walked together but they did not know it was Jesus until one event happened.
Jesus opened to them the Scriptures.
The word “opened” carries with it the meaning of “opened thoroughly.”
Here
were two disciples that didn’t even know that they were in the presence of Jesus
until He opened their understanding of the Scriptures.
Luke 24:45 (KJV)
Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the
scriptures, Then when they
reported back to the Disciples that they met Jesus on the road and it was He who
opened their understanding that they might understand the Scriptures.
The first use of understanding in that verse carries with it the meaning
of “opening of the intellect or mind or will” and the second usage of
understanding carries with it the meaning of “comprehend, to put together.”
Notice that it was not man who opened his understanding, it was Jesus who
opened their understanding.
John 1:12-13 (KJV)
But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of
God, even to them that believe on his name:
{13} Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of
the will of man, but of God.
This is why John 1:12-13 state that those who are saved are not saved by the
will of man but by the will of God.
It was Jesus who opened the will of the disciples on the road to Emmaus, not
them.
Free
Will Teaches that Each Person is given a Measure of Faith
The
Bible Teaches that only the Saved receive that Measure of Faith
Free
willers espouse the belief that every person in the world has been given a
measure of faith. This way they
believe that a person can hear the word of God and when they hear it, they can
then exercise their faith if they choose to become saved.
However, this cannot be because the Bible does not contradict itself.
We saw in Galatians 5:22 that faith is a fruit of the Holy Spirit.
If one does not have the Holy Spirit, they cannot have the fruit
associated with it.
Romans 12:3 (KJV)
For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among
you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think
soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.
Romans 12:3 is used or I should say misused by the free willers to try
and prove every person has some faith.
If we look at the context of Romans 12:3, we read that Paul is about
ready to discuss the spiritual gifts and only those who are saved have the
spiritual gifts. What is in view is
that God gives the measure of faith to the believer according to the spiritual
gifts they receive. Where the free
willer gets confused is when they associate secular faith with biblical faith.
In other words, I have faith to sit in a chair hoping it will not tip
over. I have faith to drive my car
in hopes it will get me to my destination without it breaking down.
I have faith in using my home burglar alarm to protect my home when I am
absent. These things are all types
of faith but they are not fruits of the Holy Spirit.
In fact they may be more of a confidence or an anticipated assurance
instead of faith.
Free
Will Teaches You Can Lose Your Salvation
The
Bible Teaches You Cannot Lose Your Salvation
Free
willers espouse the belief that a person can lose their salvation.
They come up with this by believing that a person attained salvation by
their free will and therefore can lose it by their free will.
Charles Finney was one of the most ardent believers in free will and he
even believed that a Christian who was already in Heaven could actually still
lose their salvation.
Here is the quote from Finney’s Systematic Theology: “It
is not intended that saints, or the truly regenerated, cannot fall from grace,
and be finally lost, by natural possibility. It must be naturally possible for
all moral agents to sin at any time. Saints on earth and in heaven can by
natural possibility apostatize and fall, and be lost. Were not this naturally
possible, there would be no virtue in perseverance” (Page 550).
Unfortunately this is the belief of many free willers but the Bible is very
clear that when one has truly become saved, they cannot lose their salvation.
1 Peter 1:5 (KJV)
Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be
revealed in the last time. 1
Peter 1:5 states that the believer is kept by the power of God.
Does the power that the free willer thinks they have is more powerful
than God’s?
John 10:28 (KJV)
And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither
shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
Here Jesus states that the believer has eternal life and they shall never
perish nor shall any man pluck them out of His hand.
Does the free willer think that they have the power to pluck themselves
out of the hands of Jesus, who by the way is eternal God!
Romans 8:38-39 (KJV) For I am
persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor
powers, nor things present, nor things to come, {39} Nor height, nor depth, nor
any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is
in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 8:38-39 clearly proclaims that nothing shall separate us from the love of
God in Christ, that is, nothing can sever us from the salvation that Christ
gives us.
(Col 3:3 KJV) For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
This verse teaches us that the believer has died and their life is now hidden in
Christ. The believer’s identity is with the Lord Jesus Christ. The words “is
hid” is the Greek word “krupto” which carries with it the meaning of “kept
secret and kept safe.” So this verse is telling us that we are kept safe and
secret in the Lord Jesus Christ. Remember the passages of John 6:37-39 where
Jesus stated that He will lose none? Now we know why, because our eternal lives
are kept safe and secret with the Lord Jesus Christ. How is it possible for sin
to be able to break that safekeeping by eternal God Himself? It is impossible.
So we
see in these few examples (and there are many more) that it is impossible for a
saved person to lose their salvation since we are kept by the power of God and
nothing can cause a loss of salvation
and the fact that we are hid with Christ in God makes the believer
totally secure. For those who
believe you can lose your salvation, it is obvious they have no clue as to what
happened on Calvary and who died there.
But then again why would they since free willers only focus on
themselves.
Summary
From
the information we have gathered in this article from the Bible, it is obvious
that free will is another Gospel.
It does not adhere to the teachings of Scripture instead exalts man and his
mythical free will as having authority even over God believing that they have to
give Him permission to work in their lives.
Free will is a total myth and does not exist in the Scriptures in any
form concerning salvation. The only
time man had free will was in the Garden of Eden and look where that got us.
I have been told that Reformed Theology is fatalism and yet the gospel
that free willers teach is nowhere found in the Bible.
They must take verses out of context and give an erroneous interpretation
to make their non-existent belief system palatable to the hearers.
Free will is a total lie in that it seeks to exalt man rather than God.
We in the Reformed community laud God for our salvation knowing it was
totally of Him. The free willers
can only laud themselves for saving themselves.
Free will is a cult like the Mormons or the Jehovah’s Witnesses because
it is an extra-biblical teaching with a following and that is very dangerous.
I am not saying that everyone who espouses free will is unsaved because
even their salvation is by grace and without their permission.
I am saying they have a very bad understanding of Scripture to the point
they exude false teachings.
Galatians 1:8-9 (KJV) But
though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that
which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.
{9} As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other
gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.
The
warning in Galatians 1:8-9 needs to be heeded since Free Will is a false gospel
which is taught in the majority of churches and that false gospel is accursed.
Now you understand why free willers are so hostile because the true
gospel invades their territory of self-aggrandizement and pride.
They want nothing to do with the true gospel because it takes them out of
the forefront and puts them in the background.
On Facebook there is one free will preacher who exalts himself so much
that in his posts he places the biggest picture of himself that he can.
Proverbs 13:10 (KJV) Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised is wisdom.