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Originally Posted by crakjak
It is the capacity to choose within the previously mentioned boundaries, this capacity carries a "just recompense of reward" that can be interpreted as the refiner's fire or a crown of righteousness. Depending on whether the choices are flesh or enlightened by the spirit (broadway or narrow way, elect or perishing).
This is not "free" will because what we do is caused by factors that we have no control over, as outlined in my previous post.
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Well, this is along the lines of what I'm thinking, i.e. that there is no basis for God to punish sin (whether eternal punishment as I believe or temporary punishment as you believe) if God gave man the
right to choose sin. Since God does, in fact, punish sin, one must say either that there is merely the capacity to choose or that God is unjust.