Reformed, Book Reading, Apple Loving, Beverage Snob, 23 Year-Old Husband, In Need of Grace.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Nobody who has not the Spirit of God can see a jot of what is in the Scriptures. All men have their hearts darkened, so that even when they can discuss and quote all that is in Scripture, they do not understand or really know it… The Spirit is needed for the understanding of all Scripture and every part of Scripture.
Martin Luther, The Bondage Of The Will
Our Desires and The Will
This week in my Ancient Philosophy course, like most good philosophers, we ended up talking about the Will and Desires. A student brought up a good point regarding how our will is the slave to our desires and thus to believe in the truest form of a free will is the believe that we are truly free to fulfill the desires of our hearts. Little did he know, this is an entirely Edwardsian view of the will, which I would whole heartedly agree with. My friend, Eric, kindly pointed out the similarity between both views and really got my interest rekindled in Edwards’ works.
Eric was kind enough to find an article for me that explains the basic thesis behind this view and I figured it would be something good to share. The article was written by Tullian Tchividjian in 2001 and can be found HERE.
For more information on Jonathan Edwards and his view of the Freedom of the Will, check out his book, which just happens to bear the same title HERE.
For some reason I haven’t read the Freedom of the Will yet, but it just made it to the top of my ‘to read’ queue.
