[CynicalBear]

>>Good works are not optional. Unless you don't mind being a goat, and burning for all eternity, that is. (Matthew 25)<<

So do you do the good works of your own volition?

[paladinan]

So do you do the good works of your own volition?

Yes. God gave me my volition, not as a farce, but as a real gift; He gives real loaves of bread, not rocks; He gives fish, not snakes. He gives real freedom, not a parody. My volition--and every other power of my body and soul--is utterly dependent on Him, and on His gift of them to me, and on His sustenance of those gifts in me... but the gifts are REAL gifts, nonetheless. Our God can actually do that.