9440	Forums / Theology Forum / Freedom Of The Will Jonathan Edwards	on: March 11, 2006, 07:51:29 AM
Quote Think about it this way. If you'll say that you have a free choice between accepting the gospel or not accepting the gospel you are saying that your will has a self determining power. You are saying that the will exist as a dominate function until it chooses salvation. But the will is to choose one thing over another. To will is to prefer. The will does make you willing, you prefer one thing over another and that is an act of the will. You are the subject and your will is the predicate. The will is not the subject. If you say that the will is dominate in-between two objects then the will is the subject and does the willing.That is just not proper. You do the willing. There is no such thing as a will that is in an equal Librium state. That is not will. To will is to have a greater desire for one object over another. Here is what you are saying. Picture this you are sitting in a chair in-between two tables , on one of the tables is a peach, on the other table is a pear, you are saying that this is what free will is. This is what freedom is. Yet your will is not exercised . When you desire the peach over the pear then you are willing, then you are choosing what you desire more. So the picture of free will starts when you grasp the peach.