Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 hours ago
Do human beings have free will? What is meant by the term free will? Are we all so totally depraved that we can only choose to sin as Calvinists claim? What about conscience? What about the fact that we can control our base desires for fear of the consequences? Every day ordinary people perform acts of kindness, acts of love, and even selfless acts of sacrifice.
Can there ever be real justice if we do not have the ability to choose right from wrong? Can there ever be real love if we cannot choose to love or hate?
In this video I examine what Scripture, philosophy and cultures have to say about these questions and refute Calvinists claims which deny divine justice or any real relationship with God.
00:01 Introduction: Universal understandings of free-will choices.
02:27 Earliest Christian theologians confirm free-will.
04:08 Augustine’s rejection of orthodoxy and its consequences.
07:04 Luther and Piper on free-will.
08:30 Westminster Confessions: God as the author of sin.
11:00 Does Scripture teach free-will?
20:40 Summing up.
Do human beings have free will? What is meant by the term free will? Are we all so totally depraved that we can only choose to sin as Calvinists claim? What about conscience? What about the fact that we can control our base desires for fear of the consequences? Every day ordinary people perform acts of kindness, acts of love, and even selfless acts of sacrifice.
Can there ever be real justice if we do not have the ability to choose right from wrong? Can there ever be real love if we cannot choose to love or hate?
In this video I examine what Scripture, philosophy and cultures have to say about these questions and refute Calvinists claims which deny divine justice or any real relationship with God.
00:01 Introduction: Universal understandings of free-will choices.
02:27 Earliest Christian theologians confirm free-will.
04:08 Augustine’s rejection of orthodoxy and its consequences.
07:04 Luther and Piper on free-will.
08:30 Westminster Confessions: God as the author of sin.
11:00 Does Scripture teach free-will?
20:40 Summing up.
