Indeed.@friend of here’s the Merriam-Webster dictionary definition of free will...
—voluntary choice or decision
—freedom of humans to make choices that are not determined by prior causes or by divine intervention
The will is never free, but is driven by something. You would never choose to eat something rotten because it would make you queasy just by smelling it. If you put a bale of hay and a piece of meat before a lion, he would never choose the hay, because he’s a carnivore and eating hay would go against his nature. A cow would never eat meat because that’s not it’s nature to do so. A bird will never swim, a fish will never fly, we will never take flight by flapping our arms really, really, hard, because all of these things are not natural for them.
It goes against the will of fallen man to seek God, because he hates Him. That is why Paul wrote there are none who understands, there are none who seek God.[Romans 3:11] They consider the preaching of the cross as foolishness.[1 Corinthians 1:18]
So, man’s will is never free. As Paul so poignantly wrote Do you not know that when you present yourselves to someone as slaves for obedience, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or of obedience resulting in righteousness?[Romans 6:16] Ppl are either slaves to sin or slaves to righteousness.
Romans 6:16 states clearly that we PRESENT OURSELVES to the one whom we will serve.
Of our own free libertarian will.