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Calvin's Institutes: March 3
If the will is bound, are we puppets—or still responsible?In this reading from Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book 2, Chapter 5, Sections 1–5, John Calvin takes up the strongest objections raised against the doctrine of the bondage of the will. He answers the charge that necessity destroys guilt by insisting that sin remains voluntary even when the will is enslaved by corruption. He dismantles the idea that punishment and reward require autonomous freedom, grounding all glory instead in divine grace (Romans 8:30; 1 Corinthians 4:7). He confronts the argument that, if human nature is…
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