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This small blog is to show the way--different ways--man sees this subject.
While some will agree on one point or another is given and that all come from scripture is ALSO given.
Now, none would (well, some would) see scripture as being contradictory and, therefore; the differences.
Elwell writes in His dictionary--and, I do not copy but paraphrase for conciseness--on these views and I also use Geisler's book on "Christian Apologetics."
Whether one agrees with any one point or another is irrelevant too this blog for all Will come too some conclusions depending on a number of factors---and almost all will claim scriptural authority.
I also claim scriptural authority too be the basic tenant of faith.
The relationship of faith to reason is of utmost importance for the thinking believer. The problem of how too combine these aspects of personhood has existed from the earliest apologist.
"Justin Martyr, Clement of Alexander, and Tertullain all struggled. Augustine made the first serious attempt to relate the two, but the most comprehensive treatment came at the end of of the medieval period when Christian intellectualism flowered in the work of Thomas Aquinas.'
Faith and reason intertwine. Faith uses reason, and reason cannot succeed in finding truth without faith---reason cannot produce faith it is produced by God. Aquinas further commented that free will was inadequate for the act of faith since the contents of faith are above reason---see Ephesians 2.
There are three basic positions concerning man's choices: determinism, indeterminism, and self-determinism.
Theistic determinist such as Martin Luther and Johnathan Edwards (talk about two opposites attracting) trace man's actions back too God's controlling hand.
The final position is self-determinism, or free will. This belief is that man determines his own behavior freely, and that no causal antecedents can sufficiently account for his action.
This should stir some thought.
Blessings
While some will agree on one point or another is given and that all come from scripture is ALSO given.
Now, none would (well, some would) see scripture as being contradictory and, therefore; the differences.
Elwell writes in His dictionary--and, I do not copy but paraphrase for conciseness--on these views and I also use Geisler's book on "Christian Apologetics."
Whether one agrees with any one point or another is irrelevant too this blog for all Will come too some conclusions depending on a number of factors---and almost all will claim scriptural authority.
I also claim scriptural authority too be the basic tenant of faith.
The relationship of faith to reason is of utmost importance for the thinking believer. The problem of how too combine these aspects of personhood has existed from the earliest apologist.
"Justin Martyr, Clement of Alexander, and Tertullain all struggled. Augustine made the first serious attempt to relate the two, but the most comprehensive treatment came at the end of of the medieval period when Christian intellectualism flowered in the work of Thomas Aquinas.'
Faith and reason intertwine. Faith uses reason, and reason cannot succeed in finding truth without faith---reason cannot produce faith it is produced by God. Aquinas further commented that free will was inadequate for the act of faith since the contents of faith are above reason---see Ephesians 2.
There are three basic positions concerning man's choices: determinism, indeterminism, and self-determinism.
Theistic determinist such as Martin Luther and Johnathan Edwards (talk about two opposites attracting) trace man's actions back too God's controlling hand.
The final position is self-determinism, or free will. This belief is that man determines his own behavior freely, and that no causal antecedents can sufficiently account for his action.
This should stir some thought.
Blessings
