Ruthie wrote:

>> First one must determine what "free will" is and what it is not.
>
> Free will is the ability to choose a course of action.

No.  It's not an issue of whether we have choices; it's
an issue of whether choices are free made.

If I say I gave someone a free choice of which fruit
to eat out of my fridge, then I sure don't mean that,
if I disagree with his choice of apple, that I put him in the
belly of a whale until he changed his mind and saw
the wisdom of choosing an orange.

Satan's will overwhelms ours.  He outwits us easily and
our own flesh cooperates with him quite readily.  We
are helpless in the face of such power.

Bart

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