Free to Choose? (Thoughts On Book 6)

One of the most hotly debated concepts in the last 500 years or so has been
that of whether or not people actually have a free will to choose their
eternal destiny. People debate each other with—shall we
say, religious fervor—and people on both sides of the debate
offer Scriptures to support their viewpoints. On the one hand, we have
people who believe that God offers us a choice to voluntarily repent and turn
to Him. On the other hand, we have people who believe that God is sovereign,
and that sovereignty necessarily means that God determines the eternal
destination of everyone, with no regard to our choices. They can't both be
correct, because they say mutually exclusive things. And actually, the Bible
is remarkably unambiguous in its teachings; reading Scriptures in context and
thinking about how Scriptures relate to each other make it abundantly clear
which of these is actually the Biblical position.