Peairtach
Puritan Board Doctor
Even sin?First, I'd like to point out that man does NOT have free will.
If you mean that all his thoughts, words and actions are decreed by God, I would agree.
Yes.
Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain. (Acts 2:23, KJV)
It's only a totally sovereign God that can maintain man's freedom and responsibility, which would otherwise be subject to chance and fate, nature and nurture.
How He does it, is as far as I am aware, a mystery, but if He isn't totally sovereign there is room for impersonal and irrational chance and fate to get a foothold in the door of the Universe and for Man's freedom and responsibility to be crushed under their jackboots.
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