Human Responsibility
Human Moral Agency
Anthropology · 5 verses
Though man is totally depraved and unable to do spiritual good apart from grace, he remains a moral agent accountable for his choices. Human responsibility and divine sovereignty are not contradictory but complementary truths. Man chooses according to his nature—the unregenerate inevitably choosing sin, the regenerate enabled to choose righteousness—yet remains culpable for all choices.
Scripture References
“I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:”
“And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.”
“No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.”
“Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will? Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?”
“The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.”