Free Will and the Christian Religion. The problem of free will assumed quite a new character with the advent of the Christian religion. The doctrine that God has created man, has commanded him to obey the moral law , and has promised to reward or punish him for observance or violation of this law , made the reality of moral liberty an issue of transcendent importance.
Theologians of the Roman Catholic Church universally embrace the idea of free will, but generally do not view free will as existing apart from or in contradiction to grace. According to the Roman Catholic Church To Go all moments of time are present in their immediacy. They undoubtedly believed in determinism, as most of the world di at that time.
This ignorance, by the. Hebrews 10:If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left, We have the free will to keep sinning. Like Adam had the free will to eat of the tree of knowledge. Later Presbyterian theologians.
A majordifference between Catholic and Protestant theology is belief in free will, inwhich both Luther and Calvin deny. Because of the Protestant creation of thedoctrine of “sola fide”, or that faith alone is sufficient for salvation, thesereformist taught that each person does not cooperate in their own salvation. (more…)