The only "free-will" natural man has is willful blindness (Deut 29:4,
Rom 3:11-20), so it is not "free-will" that we need but mercy ... mercy
to disarm and deliver us from our inflexible, obstinate, fortified
self-will and its captivity to sin and the Devil. (John 8:34-36, 2 Tim.
2:26; Rom. 9:16).
Unbeknownst to many modern Christians, this was a
foundational principle in the Reformation. With this same idea in mind,
Luther in his "Bondage of the Will" said, "I frankly
confess that, for myself, even if it could be, I should not want
"free-will" to be given me, nor anything to be left in my own hands to
enable me to endeavour after salvation; not merely because in face of so
many dangers, and adversities and assaults of devils, I could not stand
my ground ; but because even were there no dangers. I should still be
forced to labour with no guarantee of success. Continue at John Hendryx
