{"id":3796,"date":"2014-11-26T08:04:25","date_gmt":"2014-11-26T12:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=3796"},"modified":"2014-11-29T07:40:53","modified_gmt":"2014-11-29T11:40:53","slug":"wcf-chapter-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=3796","title":{"rendered":"WCF: Chapter 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of Free Will<\/p>\n<p><em>Man&#8230;is not able, by his own strength, to convert himself, or to prepare himself thereunto<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Amen. To say otherwise is to wander into pelagian or semi-pelagian territory. <\/p>\n<p>Yet while I don&#8217;t believe we have a free will to choose God on our own, we do have a free will to reject Him&#8212;we don&#8217;t have the power to say yes, but we do have the power to say no.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of Free Will Man&#8230;is not able, by his own strength, to convert himself, or to prepare himself thereunto. Amen. To say otherwise is to wander into pelagian or semi-pelagian territory. Yet while I don&#8217;t believe we have a free will to choose God on our own, we do have a free will to reject Him&#8212;we &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=3796\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;WCF: Chapter 9&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3796"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3796"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3800,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3796\/revisions\/3800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}