The Highway Forums General Discussion Theology Discussion Forum Falling away from what?

The Calvinist view as I am assimilating it is that man, after the fall, has no freedom what so ever to choose good apart from those upon whom Christ acts. As you put it, "only free to choose damnation". That is all the choices available to man are equally wrong in God's sight. Clearly that is not the freedom we are talking about. It might be a rather large prison but still a prison. <br><br>The freedom we are talking about is the freedom to choose to serve God by doing what is good in His eyes or rebel. For Adam, He was not free if the freedom he had was only to choose from this tree or that tree when all trees are equally acceptable to God for him to eat from. Adam, when placed in the Garden had no freedom to rebel, only to serve God, until God put in the Garden with Adam The Tree and SAID, DO NOT EAT FROM IT. The command is what gave Adam freedom. Now he has a choice. He can obey God or rebel. With out that command, it was impossible for Him to sin. <br><br>With out that option he was a prisoner in the Garden of God. There was no way out. <br><br>Now man is out side of the Garden. If there is no way for man to get back inside the Garden or more specifically back into the will of God or even more specifically back into fellowship with God, he is not free to choose not to sin. God has never left man with out the means to come back to Him. He found Adam and called him back. Adam responded and took from God the clothing he needed. <br><br>[color:blue]So the question I am asking here is if God was not able or willing to so act on Adam to keep him from rebelling, how is He going to keep the elect from continuing in that rebellion? Obviously your salvation has in no way hindered your ability to sin and for most people only slightly suppresses it. In what manner or at what point is God going to insure that you will never sin again? If he didn't do it for Adam, how is He going to do it for you unless it is to take away your freedom to choose to rebel in which case you become His prisoner, a wife with no choice at the alter but to go through with it?