Hi all,
Well, I happen to be reading through a book my dad recently purchased, it's a book of quotes from Early Church Fathers (1st through 5th Centuries) about different doctrines and issues they faced in their days. I came across something odd. There's a section with quotes about Freedom of Choice, and I guess in my uneducated and simple mind it's just kinda confused me. There's several comments that sound very much like stuff reformed authors say today (Several quotes from Clement of Alexandria for example), but there were several quotes (especially but not solely from Justin Martyr)about God's love shown through freedom of choice. There were several quotes that seemed to suggest ideas I'd never heard outside of people labeled as Libertines, like everything (especially salvation) being dependant on man's freedom of choice.

So, in the early church, was there a debate about soteriology that I've never heard about or am does Freedom of Choice mean something completely and utterly different and unrelated to Free Will or what?
I just find this really odd, since there are other quotes that are very calvinistic in their implications, and since it's obvious that Scripture would back up a Reformed approach to Scripture.

Anyone wanna help me out here?

-Bro. Luke