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What does a person give a contribution to his or her own salvation? Does God wait at the doorsteps of our hearts, quietly hoping to be let in when we come to a decision to open the door? Or does he call us and pursue us in a way we will’t withstand? The debate between the impossible to resist call of God and a human being’s free will has raged for centuries. So what’s the answer? And why does it matter?
In Willing to Believe, R. C. Sproul uncovers issues that provoked the Reformation and revived the controversy between Pelagius and Augustine. He carefully explores the relationship between original sin and human free will, clarifies misconceptions concerning the work of God in a believer’s liberation from sin, illuminates the work of the Holy Spirit in salvation, and offers compelling reasons to imagine the work of salvation is in God’s hands.