Freewill usually refers to the human capacity to choose between good and evil. The idea of freewill has problems on several levels.
It is a poor description - a better way to describe our choice is between being selfish or community-minded. Do we focus on meeting our own needs before our neighbor or are we altruistic?
Also, before the Fall, humans could only choose between good things (they did not think selfishly); afterwards, we put self first, which indicates that we could no longer choose between good things because every choice we made from that point was selfish.
Christ died for the community - everything he did was community-minded. He instructed us to be community-minded and gave us the Holy Spirit to guide us, which is great, but we are still not able to be native speakers......we still have to purposefully translate everything from selfish to community. We have to actively give up our will to hoard and act hedonistically, in order to give.
What do you all think?
It is a poor description - a better way to describe our choice is between being selfish or community-minded. Do we focus on meeting our own needs before our neighbor or are we altruistic?
Also, before the Fall, humans could only choose between good things (they did not think selfishly); afterwards, we put self first, which indicates that we could no longer choose between good things because every choice we made from that point was selfish.
Christ died for the community - everything he did was community-minded. He instructed us to be community-minded and gave us the Holy Spirit to guide us, which is great, but we are still not able to be native speakers......we still have to purposefully translate everything from selfish to community. We have to actively give up our will to hoard and act hedonistically, in order to give.
What do you all think?