[HarleyD]

And what would that be?

It has already been proved beyond all controversy that free-will is nonsense. Freedom cannot belong to will any more than ponderability can belong to electricity. They are altogether different things. Free agency we may believe in, but free-will is simply ridiculous. The will is well known by all to be directed by the understanding, to be moved by motives, to be guided by other parts of the soul, and to be a secondary thing. Philosophy and religion both discard at once the very thought of free-will; and I will go as far as Martin Luther, in that strong assertion of his, where he says, "If any man doth ascribe aught of salvation, even the very least, to the free-will of man, he knoweth nothing of grace, and he hath not learnt Jesus Christ aright." It may seem a harsh sentiment; but he who in his soul believes that man does of his own free-will turn to God, cannot have been taught of God, for that is one of the first principles taught us when God begins with us, that we have neither will nor power, but that he gives both; that he is "Alpha and Omega" in the salvation of men.

Charles Spurgeon-"Free Will-A Slave"

[SeaHawkFan]

That particular sermon preached against what Arminians claimed about free will.

It does not say that Spurgeon says man has no free will, just that the the Arminian view of free will is unBiblical. I agree with Spurgeon.

I think you, not intentionally, selected a portion of a Spurgeon sermon to support your view, which is O.K.

However, it is very hard to reconcile that particular excerpt with Spurgeon’s writing on the Baptist Confession of Faith; all four parts of it.

[fishtank]

Thanks,

Free will is the doctrine of Ayn Rand and the music group ‘Rush’.

It’s not Biblical.

No one is “free” - we are either slaves of sin or slaves to God.

God does ‘free’ us from hell and sin, however (to complete the figures of speech).