Election and Martin Luther

"All things whatever arise from, and depend on, the divine appointment; whereby it was foreordained who should receive the word of life, and who should disbelieve it; who should be delivered from their sins, and who should be hardened in them; and who should be justified and who should be condemned."

What are we contending for?

"What are we contending for, but that the simplicity and purity of the Christian doctrine should prevail, and that those things should be left and disregarded, which have been invented and introduced with it, by men?"   

"The Bondage of the Will"

Free Will

"God foreknows nothing by contingency, but that He foresees, purposes, and does all things according to His immutable, eternal, and infallible will.  By this thunderbolt, free will is thrown prostrate, and utterly dashed to pieces.  Those, therefore, who would assert free will, must either destroy this thunderbolt, or pretend not to see it, or push it from them."

"The Bondage of the Will"

Luther and Erasmus: The Bondage of the Will

A great video presentation by R. C. Sproul on the debate between Luther and Erasmus which resulted in Luther's classic work, "The Bondage of the Will" may be found here.