God has given us minds and hearts, and He's given us wills, and we exercise that will

all the time.

We're not robots, robots don't have minds, robots don't have wills, we're human beings,

we make choices, that's why we're in trouble.

I was interviewed for a series of programs that were being presented about Reformed Theology

and the person who was running this program asked me what the basic issue was between

Augustinian theology or Reformed Theology and Historic Semi-Polationism.

I think it comes down to a different understanding of freedom and of free will.

I think the principal problem that people have with divine sovereignty, with divine

election is immediately they say, well we believe that man has free will.

Well I don't know any Augustinian in all of church history who didn't strongly affirm

that we have free will.

We are volitional creatures.

God has given us minds and hearts, and He's given us wills, and we exercise that will all

the time.

We make choices every minute of the day, and we choose what we want, we choose freely.

Nobody's coercing us, putting a gun to our head, and we're not robots, robots don't have

minds, robots don't have wills, robots don't have hearts, we're human beings, we make choices.

That's why we're in trouble with God.

Because the choices that we make in our fallen condition are sinful choices.

We choose according to our desires which are only wicked, continuously the Bible tells

us, and that we are, as it were, dead in sin and trespasses, even though biologically

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