It is not our genuine freedom, our liberum, but our servum arbitrium, that we choose evil. It means an alienation not only from God and our neighbour but also from ourselves. We do not act freely, but as those "possessed," when we do wrong. And it is only as we actually do it that it shows itself to be a determination of our human essence which, although we cannot shake it off, is supremely inappropriate and improper. (Church Dogmatics, §64.2)
Saturday, June 11, 2011
You've let yourself down 2
The combination of our ability to sin and our choice to sin:
