Comments from another lay "oaf" who begs to be taught:

I've heard R.C. Sproul say that there's no such thing as "free will", because "there are no maverick molecules", and God is sovereign over everything, including human will. But if I remember correctly, he follows Jonathan Edwards in claiming that the "will" is nothing but the ability to choose, perhaps with the illusion of having freedom to do so. So if compatibilism "is the thesis that free will is compatible with determinism", then it appears that neither Edwards nor Sproul believe in compatibilism, because it appears that neither believe in "free will".

Last edited by Charles Raleigh; Fri Aug 11, 2006 6:42 PM.
A Theological Inventory of American Jurisprudence
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