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    C. S. Lewis
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    The sin both of men and of angels, was rendered possible by the fact that God gave us free will. .

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    Martin Luther
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    Galatians 3:13, 2 Corinthians 5:21, Isaiah 53:4-5, Romans 8:3, 1 Peter 2:24
    A magistrate regards someone as a criminal and punishes him if he catches him among thieves, even though the man has never committed anything evil or worthy of death. Christ was not only found among s...

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    Martin Luther
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    Either sin is with you, lying on your shoulders, or it is lying on Christ, the Lamb of God. Now if it is lying on your back, you are lost; but if it is resting on Christ, you are free, and you will be...

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    Augustus Toplady
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    I infer that God's decrees, and the necessity of event flowing thence, neither destroy the true free-agency of men, nor render the commission of sin a jot less heinous. They neither force the huma...

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    Charles Dickens
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    “You are fettered," said Scrooge, trembling. "Tell me why?" "I wear the chain I forged in life," replied the Ghost. "I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it...

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    Martin Luther
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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...

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    Calvin Miller
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    Psalm 32:5, Romans 8:1, James 5:16, 1 John 1:7-9, Luke 7:47-48
    We confess to the Lord, despite the fact that we know he will forgive us, for he did his forgiving back when Caesar ruled and executioners had hammers that were crass and killing cruel. We confess not...

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    Karl Barth
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    Acts 7:54-60, Psalm 23:4, Acts 2:1-4, John 14:26, Luke 15:11-32, Romans 5:8
    In His free grace, God is for man in every respect; He surrounds man from all sides. He is man's Lord who is before him, above him, after him, and thence also with him in history, the locus of man...

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    C. S. Lewis
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    If a thing is free to be good it is also free to be bad. And free will is what has made evil possible. Why, then, did God give them free will? Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also...

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    C. S. Lewis
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    Free will is what has made evil possible. Why, then, did God give [creatures] free will? Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodne...

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    Origen of Alexandria
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    Free will is the power of choosing good and evil.

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    Isaac Singer
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    We have to believe in free will. We have no choice.

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    Kenneth Scott Latourette
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    That free will was demonstrated in the placing of temptation before man with the command not to eat of the fruit of the tree which would give him a knowledge of good and evil, with the disturbing mora...

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    Timothy Keller
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    Every one of our sinful actions has a suicidal power on the faculties that put that action forth. When you sin with the mind, that sin shrivels the rationality. When you sin with the heart or the emot...

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    Dorothy L. Sayers
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    Matthew 16:24-25, Proverbs 3:5-6, James 4:7, Romans 8:7, Galatians 5:17
    Sin is a deep interior dislocation of the soul. It's a desire to keep control of your life.

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    Anselm of Canterbury
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    Remove grace, and you have nothing whereby to be saved. Remove free will and you have nothing that could be saved.

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    Timothy Keller
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    Galatians 5:17, Isaiah 59:2, 2 Peter 2:19, John 8:34, Romans 7:18-19, Proverbs 5:22
    Sin is a suicidal action of the will upon itself. It is like taking an addicting drug. At first it may feel wonderful, but every time it gets harder to not do it again.

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    Timothy Keller
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    John 14:6, Genesis 11:1-9, Isaiah 64:6, Romans 1:25, Proverbs 3:5-6, Jeremiah 17:5
    Sin is looking to something else besides God for your salvation. It is putting yourself in the place of God, becoming your own savior and lord, as it were.

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    Augustine of Hippo
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    Sin comes when we take a perfectly natural desire or longing or ambition and try desperately to fulfill it without God. Not only is it sin, it is a perverse distortion of the image of the Creator in u...

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    Karl Barth
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    Sin is not confined to the evil things we do. It is the evil within us, the evil which we are.

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    George MacDonald
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    Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed.

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    Timothy Keller
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    Isaiah 44:20, Luke 16:13, Jeremiah 2:13, 1 John 5:21, Matthew 6:21
    Sin isn’t only doing bad things, it is more fundamentally making good things into ultimate things. Sin is building your life and meaning on anything, even a very good thing, more than on God. Whatever...

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    John Piper
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    Sin gets its power by persuading me to believe that I will be happier if I follow it. The power of all temptation is the prospect that it will make me happier.

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    John Stott
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    John 1:29, 1 Peter 2:24, Galatians 3:13, 2 Corinthians 5:21, Isaiah 53:5
    The essence of sin is we human beings substituting ourselves for God, while the essence of salvation is God substituting himself for us. We…put ourselves where only God deserves to be; God…puts himsel...

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    Sam Allberry
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    Genesis 3:, Philippians 2:6-8, Romans 5:8, Isaiah 53:5-6, 2 Corinthians 5:21
    The essence of sin is man substituting himself for God, while the essence of salvation is God substituting himself for man. Man asserts himself against God and puts himself where only God deserves to ...

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    Phillip Yancey
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    God's terrible insistence on human freedom is so absolute that he granted us the power to live as though He did not exist, to spit in His face, to crucify Him.

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    Henry Fairlie
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    Philippians 3:12-14, 2 Corinthians 5:17, Galatians 5:16-17, Romans 6:23, Romans 7:18-20
    If we acknowledge that our inclination to sin is part of our natures, and that we will never wholly eradicate it, there is at least something for us to do in our lives that will not in the end seem ju...

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    Søren Kierkegaard
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    2 Timothy 3:13, Hebrews 3:12-13, Ephesians 4:18-19, Proverbs 5:22, Romans 1:21, Psalm 36:1-2
    Sin is a position which out of itself develops a more and more positive continuity. . . .Sin grows every instant one does not get out of it.

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    C. S. Lewis
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    Isaiah 55:7, 1 John 1:9, 1 Corinthians 6:18-20, Romans 6:23, Galatians 6:7-8, Proverbs 14:12
    And of some sinful pleasure they say "Let me have but this and I'll take the consequences": little dreaming how damnation will spread back and back into their past and contaminate the pl...

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    R. C. Sproul
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    John 3:19-20, Proverbs 16:5, 1 Samuel 15:23, Jeremiah 2:19, James 4:4
    Every sin is an act of cosmic treason, a futile attempt to dethrone God in His sovereign authority.”
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