This is a catalogue of Biblical passages that I believe show faith to be a supernatural gift of God, and that without this gift we cannot come to have faith. 1 Corinthians 12:3No one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” except by the Holy Spirit. Ephesians 2:8For by grace you have been saved through faith. And …
Continue reading Faith is a Gift of God Alone: Biblical Texts
This catalogue of Biblical quotes is intended to show that God's Word reveals us to be so enslaved to sin that we cannot turn our wills towards God (and thus we have no free will) but that God mercifully turns our wills towards Himself without our cooperation. See also: Biblical quotes that show God is …
Continue reading Monergism and Our Inability to Will Good: Bible Quotes
What follows is a summary of Martin Luther’s masterpiece (Luther himself said it was his greatest and most important achievement) ‘The Bondage of the Will,’ wherein quoted passages from the work are sorted into categories. This work argues that man has no free will, which it says is the central claim of the whole Reformation. …
Last night the 1662 Lectionary assigned 1 Corinthians 1 as our Evening Prayer reading, and it's one of my absolute favourite chapters in the Holy Bible. Let's take some time to read through it and reflect on how God speaks into our lives through those sacred words. All quotations are from the English Standard Version. …
I said in my previous article that Calvin denied that man has free will. Now, while some of the later Reformed scholastics would go on to uphold free will in a nuanced sense, their opinions have no bearing on my original article since the Anglican Formularies predated them. As far as we are concerned with …
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