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Edwards wrote all that to say that the Will is not a free moral agent. It does not act on its own. It is bound by the person, who is the moral agent.

8 posted on 02/10/2004 11:54:55 AM PST by ksen (This day we fight! By all that you hold dear on this good earth I bid you stand, Men of the West!)

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Edwards wrote all that to say that the Will is not a free moral agent. It does not act on its own. It is bound by the person, who is the moral agent.

So he took that many words to create a straw man. Nobody has ever said that the will alone is a free moral agent or that the will acts wholly independent of extant circumstances and events and persuasions or that it is not bound in some way or the other by the creator.

That being said, why the rant against Arminians. Arminians don't even believe what Edwards is claiming they do.

12 posted on 02/10/2004 12:05:09 PM PST by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o* &AAGG)

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