[mo'shea]

Ole' "Brother Martin" checked at the doorway of faith the notion that God loves us so much that he gifts us with a free will, to believe in His Son or not to, and even if believing in His Son, to nevertheless reject the salvation that His Son's blood offers. Sola Scripture unfortunately teaches in effect that believing by definition means relinquishing one's free will. It also utterly ignores Jesus' many exhortations to do good, among the most powerful being the parable about the damned and the exalted, who respectively ignored and took care of "...the least of their brothers."

Martin Luther was plagued by scrupulosity, and his narrow, erroneous theological "by faith alone" finding was simply an unfortunate remedy to keep himself out of the nuthouse.

[Terriergal]

Ole' "Brother Martin" checked at the doorway of faith the notion that God loves us so much that he gifts us with a free will,

"I believe that I cannot come to my Lord Jesus Christ by my own intellegence or power. But the Holy Spirit call me by the Gospel, enlightened me with His gifts, made me holy and kept me in the true faith,"

Not sure where you're getting that Martin Luther believed in a free will. I think the last we saw of free will was in the Garden of Eden before the Fall of man into sin.

to believe in His Son or not to, and even if believing in His Son, to nevertheless reject the salvation that His Son's blood offers.

Huh?

Sola Scripture unfortunately teaches in effect that believing by definition means relinquishing one's free will

Well surprise surprise... that's what the Bible says too. We can be slaves to sin or servants of righteousness. We are bought with a price, etc.

[LinnKeyes2000]

Luther believed in free will. How could one not believe in free will and yet teach that you can fall away from faith?
Rev Henrickson, can you reply to the sola scripture comment?