(November 18, 2019 at 6:33 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: It's not actually novel, nor does christianity as a whole have any issue with a sinful creature lacking free will. Calvinism is the easy example, but it's bleeding into "biblical christianity" as well.
-It might help to remember that rejections of free will as a heretical prop denying gods potency and primacy as the ultimate source of all act and circumstance in reality have been with christianity for centuries. Defining schismatic arguments between the respective cults who hold to one side or the other.
My understanding is that Calvinists generally believe people are free to sin but not free to do good. But I'm sure there are extremes among them who say there's no free will at all.
