the Bible says much concerning the responsibility that we have to make choices. But the emphasis in Scripture, in light of original sin, is on human bondage—of man enslaved to his own wicked desires. It’s not that man is a servant to the tyranny of God; man is in bondage to himself and his own sinful predispositions. Augustine would say, yes, you have a free will—but that will, and the choices that you make with it, are deeply influenced by who and what you are. We are creatures who are profoundly fallen, and whom the Bible describes as being in bondage to our own sinful inclinations.
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