What do moderates think Jesus died for?

[Alan V]

What exactly is free will without desires already in place to act on?

Don't we necessarily act upon desires that we had no control over being there in the first place?

That's one argument. However, not all of our desires are based on unconscious motivations alone. If I want to do what is reasonable, for instance, I may have to work against what I would prefer to do.

In other words, we have all sorts of conflicting desires and must choose between them. We do this by consciously considering them, assigning priorities, constraining some while pursuing others, assigning certain times and places for certain desires, or just holding to what seems true and reasonable regardless of what we feel.