Free Will & The Posse Peccare / Posse Non Peccare (The Ability To Sin / Not To Sin)
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"For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection, knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin." Romans 6:5-6
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- Look at verse 6. So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate.
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- She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate. So this part is important.
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- Eve was what? New Testament talks about this. Eve was deceived, right?
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- Adam just flat -out disobeyed what God said. By an act, we would say of his own free will.
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- And at this time, we've talked about sovereignty of God and free will before. At this moment,
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- Adam truly has free will in the ultimate sense. There is no sin nature.
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- Adam was perfectly free to, and he was able to obey God perfectly, or he was able to disobey
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- God. Adam had a free will. And what did Adam do with free? Everyone loves free will, free will.
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- Yeah, you know what people do with their free will? They sin against God, okay? And that's exactly what he did.
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- And as our representative, Adam is the head of the human race. The race fell into sin because of this intentional decision.