This is the typical charge leveled against synergism, which is the technical term for the libertarian understanding of salvation in which there is divine/human cooperation in salvation—God, in grace, does everything but humans have to cooperate by accepting this grace. According to people like James Montgomery Boice, free-will theists cannot give God glory: “They want to glorify God. Indeed, they can and do say ‘to God be the glory,’ but they cannot say ‘to God alone be the glory,’ because they insist on mixing human power or ability with the human response to gospel grace.”

