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Calvin's Institutes: February 19
What happens to human freedom after the Fall? In today’s reading from Calvin’s Institutes, Book 2, Chapter 2, Calvin presses directly into one of the most uncomfortable questions in Christian theology: whether anything resembling free will truly remains once sin has done its work. Moving carefully between sloth and pride, Calvin critiques both pagan philosophers and well-meaning Christian theologians who tried to preserve human dignity by overstating human ability. Along the way, he exposes how easily “free will” becomes a theological placeholder rather than a carefully defined reality…
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