This rebellion could not have existed without a free agency; for without a free agency they would all have been compelled to do the will of the Father.
That is certainly a novel kind of free agency, which not only makes a man free to commit an act which it is known will lead to his own destruction and the ruin of the entire human race, but implants in him the inclination to do it.
It is a perversion of language to apply the term "free agency" to such a case.
Here is the Christian logic of free agency put in practice.
Some Christian professors accept the doctrine of free agency to escape the dreaded alternative of assuming man to be a mere machine, which they call fatality.
In the Great Council then held, of which a dim and distant picture only has been left, the great question was with respect to man's free agency.
The Father of souls has endowed His children with the divine birthright of free agency; He does not and will not control them by arbitrary force; He impels no man toward sin; He compels none to righteousness.
Free agency, the divine birthright of every human soul, will not be annulled by death.
Free agency is an indispensable element of such a test.
That they are inconsistent with the free agency of man.
The objection rests upon a false theory of free agency--namely, that free agencyimplies indeterminateness or uncertainty; in other words, that free agency cannot coexist with certainty as to the results of its exercise.
If anything be inconsistent with man's free agency, it must be, not the decrees themselves, but the execution of the decrees in creation and providence.
Surely the doctrines of the Church are explicit in defining the relationship between the mortal probation and the future state, and in teaching the individual accountability and the free agency of man.
The doctrine of absolute predestination, resulting in a nullification of man's free agency, has been advocated with various modifications by different sects.
Free agency of man, or is he controlled by necessity, 684-m.
Free agency of man to do evil or choose good, 577-u.
Are we to conclude that man's free agencyis responsible for this moral monstrosity?
Others, and the greater part of the Calvinists of the present day, endeavour to reconcile the ideas of necessity and free agency.
In page 612 he says, "God confers on them (mankind) in their creation the powers of free agency, and he uses no influence in his providence or government to procure their sin.
In 1840 she published in the "Biblical Repository" an article on Free Agency, which has been acknowledged by competent critics as the ablest refutation of Edwards on "The Will" which has appeared.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "free agency" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
