“How, then, could he say, without contradiction, that Adam’s and Eve’s sin was free? In the sense that they could have done otherwise? The contradiction lies between his and their doctrines of providence and his and their doctrines of predestination, foreordination, specifically with regard to sin.” - Roger Olson
“As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.” (Proverbs 27:17)
Calvinism’s Achilles Heel
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He has a point. There’s a difficult friction point there.
Of course, Olson’s classical Arminianism has some huge achilles heels also.
Personally, I think secondary causes in God’s decrees mostly solves it for classical Calvinism. But it doesn’t make it comfortable.
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