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Let all the 'free-will' in the world do all it can with all its strength; it will never give rise to a single instance of ability to avoid being hardened if God does not give the Spirit, or of meriting mercy if it is left to its own strength. Martin Luther. Giving, Doe, World.
In response, Luther with great acumen and sarcasm reveals why Erasmus' notion of free will is an erroneous and unscriptural doctrine that ultimately undermines the gospel itself. The following quotations strike at the heart of the matter: whether Christ alone saves or whether salvation is a synergistic collaboration between man and God.
Martin Luther began the Reformation with a denial of free will. This was fundamental to the Biblical doctrine of justification by faith alone. At the time, Erasmus, a brilliant scholar, wrote a diatribe called Discussion on the Freedom of the Will, defending the Roman Catholic doctrine.
Lord Jesus, You are my righteousness, I am your sin. You took on you what was mine; yet set on me what was yours. You became what you were not, that I might become what I was not. Martin Luther. Jesus, Might, Sin. 923 Copy quote. Pray like it all depends on God, then when you are done, go work like it all depends on you.
6 de sept. de 2023 · Free will, or “free choice,” as Erasmus calls it, is the subject of a spirited debate between Erasmus and Martin Luther. Essentially, Erasmus rejected the idea that human beings were ...
10 de ago. de 2014 · Bullinger, attentively hearkening to this discourse of that holy man, Luther, fell down flat on his face to the ground, and uttered these words following: “Oh, happy be the time that brought me hither to hear the divine discourse of this man of God” (Martin Luther), “a chosen vessel of the Lord to declare his truth!
11 de nov. de 2017 · Martin Luther struggled greatly with the relationship of God’s sovereignty to human free will and sin. In fact, one of the greatest books ever written on the subject, The Bondage of the Will, is from Luther’s pen.
