In a roundabout way that was my point. We have ‘free will’ but our wills naturally run the wrong way from birth. As do the demons since the fall. God puts bounds on all that, although for a brief time in the Tribulation He gives us a taste of what it’d be like without His sovereign hand.
I don’t consider evil to be the absence of good, but the rebellion against good. Going left when you should go right, if you will. I wouldn’t say God authored evil, but allowed it, allowed rebellion that is. For the most part I agree with his logic.
Fortunately we are given a path to achieve the good, through no effort of our own. He pulls us back to the good.
Sorry, my FRiend, “free will” is not a reformed viewpoint. It derives from a wrongheaded attempt to inculcate a semi-pelagian heresy into the Gospel. Free will is a pagan myth stuck in the dark ages and often added to recent renditions of “Chrisitianity”, but not Christianity. You are invited to post at other threads.
Does He pull us back or do we choose to go back ourself?
I believe He had to pull me.. what do you think?