The will of the regenerate man
This journal article critiques Prof. Cammenga's teaching on the restoration of free will in regenerate believers, arguing that the Canons of Dort explicitly deny that regenerate man can will and do good "of his own accord." The author contends that while regenerate man is freed from slavery to sin, this freedom does not grant autonomous volition in spiritual matters, as faith itself is produced entirely by God's sovereign working.
The will of the regenerate man I read Prof. Cammenga's articles in the April 15 and June 2020 Standard Bearer entitled "Of free will, and thus of human powers" with interest, but disagree with his teaching that regenerated man "has the freedom of his will restored" so that he, quoting the Second Helvetic Confession (SHC), "wills and is able to do the good of its own accord" (SB, June, p. 399). Man does "willingly" will sin in his second stage of his "own accord," but Prof. Cammenga and the...
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