A Real and Significant Biblical Contradiction?

[spockrates]

Fascinating. Please explain.

I wish I could, it seems inexplicable to me except by way of throwing my hands up and saying "I understand that this is important to you, and so you'd like to keep it regardless, have at it". The main point of contention is, apparently, our ability to choose not to sin. You see, we must all be filthy, sinful little things by our very nature. Generally, the idea is to redefine what free will is to begin with. In other words -creative interpretation-, as always.

Yes, I actually agree. I'd say someone who has freewill is someone who has the freedom to choose for, or against some idea, or someone. Calvinists (I used to be a member of a church that followed Calvin's teachings) seem to me to deny that people have the freedom to choose God. Only those he chooses to choose him do choose him, and those he chooses to not choose him do not choose him.

For example, a Calvinist might say you are not free to choose God, because God has not chosen you, and I am not free to reject God, because God has chosen me. (Though my fonts expressed about Reformed Theology might cause her to doubt that God has really chosen me!)

But I'm unsure how my definition of freewill differs from that of a Calvinist.