pilgrim3970
Puritan Board Freshman
I started to post this in response to the hyper-arminianism thread but instead decided to create a new one for this. It was said there that Mormon's view free will as a gift and this brought to mind the quote I am submitting.
Here is a rather interesting take by Eastern Orthodox theologian Vladimir Lossky
Being different from the typical Arminian view, this statement has always been a little intriguing to me so I thought I'd place it out here for discussion.
Here is a rather interesting take by Eastern Orthodox theologian Vladimir Lossky
A perfect nature has no need of choice, for it knows naturally what is good...our free choice indicates the imperfection (emphasis mine) of fallen human nature, the loss of divine likeness. Our nature being over-clouded by sin no longer knows its true good, and usually turns to what is 'against nature'; and so the human person is always faced with the necessity of choice; it goes forward gropingly. This hesitation in our ascent towards the good we call 'free will'. - from The Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church, p.125
Being different from the typical Arminian view, this statement has always been a little intriguing to me so I thought I'd place it out here for discussion.
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