One annoying thing about Protestants who revered the 16th century Reformation is that they mindlessly quote the Reformers. One good example is the meme on free will.
By the time it appeared on my newsfeed it is already loved and liked 37 times, and shared 10 times, with not a single comment. They love quoting men; their sola scriptura is just a religious shibboleth.
I left these two comments:
1. God's free will does not permit Him to lie, to lie is against His character; God's free will is limited by the law of His own character and attributes.
2. Man has free will but his free will is limited by and subjected to the law of his sinful nature; his true and full freewill has never, and will never will him to any spiritual good. It is a serious error to deny man's free will just because his free will is limited by his sinful nature.
The man has true and full free will; without it, there is no basis for the moral government of God over him.
Because man has true and full free will, he is justly without excuse and righteously condemned for all his freewill and sinful acts.
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I was thinking, since a man is so messed up with such basic things as baptism and Lord's Supper, why do men still incessantly quote him?
Even his "sola fide" is either completely off, or his teaching has been twisted and perverted by his followers into serious falsehood.
