"If you do well, will it not be lifted up? If you don't do well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire is for you, but you are to rule over it." Gen 4:7 Hebrew Names Version
Now comparing your verse against "my" version (I don't use the King James) which seems more accurate?
But if I live on in the flesh, this will bring fruit from my work; yet I don't make known what I will choose. Phil 1:22
Sure, we have a choice. I said we have a choice. The Bible says we have a choice.
Pro 5:21 For the ways of a man are before the eyes of the LORD, And He watches all his paths.
God watches all of man's path. You feel that you make a decision and God reacts to that decision. I would say that every path that we "decide" is ordained (guided) by the Lord. You can NOT do anything that God hasn't ordained to happen.
Pro 16:9 The mind of man plans his way, But the LORD directs his steps.
The Council of Orange was a local council. It was never binding on the universal church. So it is understandable that Cassian is considered a saint in the Eastern Church (commemorated on the last day of February.) Christianity as a whole never embraced the doctrine of Total Depravity, so dear to a Calvinist's heart, a doctrine Calvinists use the Council of Orange to support.
Heresy is a very interesting word. It comes from the Greek word for choice. That doesn't mean that what a heretic chooses is necessarily wrong, but he chooses only one feature of doctrine and blows it out of proportion and to the exclusion of every other part of Christian tradition. It seems to me that the charge of heresy is more applicable to the Council of Orange than what kosta is offering on these threads.
And I will repeat what I said earlier: if our will is only the extension of God's will, then by necessity, there can be not evil, Harley D.
Your interpretations lead to false conclusions.
Hebrew Bible (OT) is not Christian OT, HD. The Christian OT is Septuagint (LXX).
Excuse me, but your tagline says something (out of context) that our steps are "ordained" and yet you say that we have a choice? Make up your mind. It is our choice or is it an extension of God's choice? A choice, in order to be a choice, must be free. Otherwise it's not a choice. If you deny free choice, then you deny evil, because then our choice is really God's choice.
The only discomfort I feel is your refusal to ack acknowledge what stripes1776 reminded you of: the Council of Orange was a local council, like the Council of Toledo (filioque). Cassian was never anathematized by the Church.
Catholics and other Protestants follow +Augustine's teachings. Blessed Augustine is also a saint in the Orthodox Church. So, when I say that you side with some suporters of Augustine I was telling you the truth. It is only a relatively small number of those who side with +Augustine to the exclusion of other Fathers, as Calvinists do.