Free Will in CALVINISM?! | Simplicity, Sin & Providence

Unlike the crass, unqualified language of modern calvinists, the Reformed orthodox of yesteryear spoke about man's free will and God's providence with much more care and precision.

Neo-calvinists, like Justin Peters and James White, often speak in ways that would be considered reckless and borderline blasphemy by the Reformed theologians of the 16th/17th century, such as Francis Turretin.

In this video, I present the classical reformed understanding of free will and God's providence in sin: which affirms that man makes contingent, free choices, and yet God is the efficient cause of all actions without being the cause of sin.

Furthermore , I explain how a classical doctrine of God (i.e. Divine Simplicity, Classical Theism) necessitates that God be the efficient cause of all acts (and yet not of sin)

0:00 - Intro
9:10 - Defining Free Will
11:00 - Necessity of Coaction
12:00 - Physical/Brute Necessity
13:30 - Limitations on Free Will
14:15 - Necessity of the Event/ Suppositional Necessity
15:50 - Rational Necessity
18:00 - Moral Necessity
24:40 - Necessity of Dependence on God
27:20 - Simultaneous vs Previous Concourse
30:40 - Classical Theism/ Divine Simplicity
35:00 - God does NOT cause Sin
40:30 - Necessity of God's Foreknowledge