Free willism - functional atheism

2 Thessalonians 2:13
But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:

"Arminianism was the false gospel of John Wesley and his followers in the eighteenth century, and of D. L. Moody in the nineteenth. It is the stock-in-trade of well nigh all the popular evangelists of this century from Billy Graham downwards..... All the sects which have sprung up in these latter times, however divergent in their doctrines and practices -- Jehovah's Witnesses, Seventh Day Adventists, Pentecostalists, Mormons, Christadelphians, Cooneyites, etc., etc., have all in common, the fatal lie of free-willism. It is Satan's sovereign drug, which causes the soul to sleep in delusion, and the end of such delusion is death. "Free will," says Spurgeon, "has carried many souls to hell but never a soul to heaven.""


""I have no narrower gospel than you have; only my gospel is on a solid foundation, whereas yours is built upon nothing but sand and rottenness......No man can come except the Father draw him." But it is only the will we are talking of now; and it is certain that men will not come unto Christ, that they might have life.... So they all made excuses and would not come. Well the king was determined to have the feast; so he said, "Go out into the highways and hedges, and" invite them—stop! not invite—"compel them to come in;" for even the ragged fellows in the hedges would never have come unless they were compelled."""


"those who can prove the salvation of Cain, the devil's offspring, and Judas, the son of perdition, are wise far above all that is written; and who can teach them?........"

To say that:
Jesus died for Cain and Judas.
Carnal conscience will choose the Spirit.
The old man will welcome the new man. Unregenerate reason will be unbiased.
People will turn to God without the grace of God.
Lovers of sin will sit and change into lovers of God.
The will of the people stands over the will of the king.

Is 100% madness and magic. Since God has given us the Spirit of a sound mind and the words of Scripture to make sense of, free willism must be a delusional belief in man's powers, a confidence in a false religious experience, and in no wise comes from God.

It is not a coincidence that free willists degenerate into various cults, most notably charismatism. The belief in the powers of man finally ends in witchcraft. Like the monks of the desert who from taking a self-willed vow became dark sorcerers and alchemists, the free will adepts of 100 years ago have become "white" magicians - charismatic lunatics. This is what happens with man-centered theology (an oxymoron). You become mad and obsessed with magic and foolishness, as Erasmus the free willer describes the monks at that time:

"And next these come those that commonly call themselves the religious and monks ...... For first, they reckon it one of the main points of piety if they are so illiterate that they can't so much as read"