Sunday, December 3, 2023

Free Moral Agent vs. Mere Automaton

And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, 
Q: How long halt ye between two opinions? 
if the LORD be God, follow Him: 
but if Baal, then follow him. 
the people answered him not a word.
1 Kings 18:21



"God placed man under law, as an indispensable condition of his very existence.
He was a subject of the divine government, and there can be no government without law.
--
God might have created man without the power to transgress His law; 
--He might have withheld the hand of Adam from touching the forbidden fruit; 
--but in that case man would have been, 
not a free moral agent
but a mere automaton." 
E.G.W.