Free will does not mean autonomy; nor does it mean that as a creature you have the ability to incline yourself either to the good or to the bad with equal power. God says that by nature in your sin you’re a slave. You still have a will, you still have the ability to make choices, but your choices are wicked. You are morally incapable in and of yourself, until you are enabled by God the Holy Spirit, ever to choose the holy things of God.
