Do we need God's grace or can we save ourselves with some grace?

Image via WikipediaMany of you would, no doubt, agree that there is a great need to recover the gospel in our age.  In order to begin moving out of the present state of chaos in the church, we need to subvert many of the false narratives borrowed from the world that have taken hold of us.  


The intent of this book is both to dismantle one of these core inconsistent narratives in light of Holy Scripture and then replace it with a consistent and biblical one. 


I will propose that one of the most dominant reasons for the current downgrade in the Church is the presuppositional lens through which Scripture is read called "libertarian freedom". 


To begin to understand the full extent of the crisis we must begin here. As we define and then closely explore the problems with libertarian free will we will not only expose its outright errors but perhaps even more importantly, its inconsistencies which may have previously gone unnoticed by some. This will help us all think more clearly and replace the unbiblical with the biblical. This error is a old as the fall.

The earliest notable dispute on this issue was between Augustine and Pelagius. It had to do with the extent to which the natural man is responsible for his or her own regeneration (the new birth), i.e. whether the work of God in regeneration monergistic (God alone) or synergistic (a cooperation of man and God). 


The  Council of Orange (529 A. D.) condemned the Semi-Pelagian doctrine that fallen creatures, although sinful, have an island of righteousness which made them morally competent enough to contribute toward their salvation by taking hold of the offer of the grace of God through an act of their unregenerate natural will. Orange upheld Augustine's view that the will is evil by corruption of nature and becomes good only by a correction of grace.