Jeff Chavez’s Reviews > Excusing Sinners and Blaming God: A Calvinist Assessment of Determinism, Moral Responsibility, and Divine Involvement in Evil > Status Update

'Immoral choices, then, entail a dysfunction of those faculties: literally, a mental “disorder.” To act immorally, rebelling against the perfect creator God is irrational; it is “insane” in that sense, and the more wicked the sin, the more “insane” we are inclined to describe the person.'

"It is no more arbitrary that God can providentially determine human choices while for me to do so would be manipulation, than it is that God can take life as he pleases while for me to do so would be murder."

"On theistic compatibilism, in usual cases of human free choices, God does not determine the actions of humans against their wills, but through their wills. God usually employs neither threats nor physical force, but rather, he providentially influences human hearts to willingly accomplish his purposes in all things."
--Guillaume Bignon, Excusing Sinners and Blaming God. Ebook.

"God providentially determines everything that comes to pass including human choices." - Intro